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\n \n \n \n — Conférence en anglais —
In the seminar Kerstin Schroedinger will unfold a current artistic research project about strategies of radical non-violence. The seminar aims to provide both, a reflection of processual working practices and insight into a filmic practice, its materialities and social implications.
Autoreduce: Weaving Circles of Unreproductive Autonomy seeks to record knowledge of traditional weaving techniques and narrative practices through a series of interviews and conversations with childless (i.e., unreproductive) women in Egypt, Japan and Germany. The Weaving Circle suggests a form of collaborative but unofficial exchange of knowledge about women's health and reproductive health.
The acceleration of violence against women to date not only parallels an ever elusive acceleration of capital. But I will argue that the systemic destruction of women's bodies lies at the core of contemporary capitalism. We must oppose this violence and counter a spiralling of aggression. The Weaving Circle may carry a utopian-revolutionary potential, to which I attribute the activities of refraining, omission, wilful avoidance and non- participation, and a long-standing (feminist) strategy of sabotage, in order to reduce the nation state into disappearance.
Kerstin Schroedinger is an artist working in video, sound and performance. Her historiographic practice questions the means of image production, historical linearities and ideological certainties of representation. Recent works include DNCB in collaboration with Oliver Husain (performance 2019) and Blueness (video/installation 2017). Her works have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Forum Expanded of Berlinale, Wavelengths Toronto, Mumok Vienna, and exhibited at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Photo Cairo#6, Silent Green Betonhalle Berlin, among other places.