WORKSHOP : Pleasure Is Power
Online on Zoom - Register HERE
We are pleased to announce this new workshop given by Fannie Sosa and co-presented by Art Volt.
*Please note that we will prioritize BIPOC emerging artists for this workshop.
Pleasurably obtaining knowledge, fabricating it, and redistributing it, seems to be at the core of an intersectional understanding where knowledges, power and pleasures and pain are interrelated. Black femme pain being inevitable is part of a necro-colonial extractivist extension that self-actualizes to generate and accumulate wealth, so "whose pleasures are enhanced by ignorance?" and "whose pleasures are suppressed by knowledge?" are complex questions that must be asked repeatedly in any look of liberation. Pleasurably hacking femme-hood, womxnity and Blackness is one of the strategies Sosa would like to defend in the making of liberatory practices, theories and economies.
Fannie Sosa is an afro-sudaka activist, artist, and pleasure scholar, currently doing a France-Brasil co-directed PhD called Twerk/Torque: Anti Colonial Strategies for Thriving and Surviving in Web 2.0 Times. They creates mixed media knowledge packages that span performance / video installations / circular talks / extended workshops, using pleasure and its transmission as a radical act of resistance for an embodied afro-diasporic evolutionary praxis.
Their written work is set up to question binary epistemicides, scientific and institutional racism, and sex economical inequalities. They have been featured at the Tate Modern (UK), MOAD Miami (US), le Centre Pompidou (FR), the Broad Museum (US), Wiener Festwochen (AU), Nitéroi’s MAC (BR), IMG Gallery (UK), and Museo Reina Sofía(ES), among others. Sosa has collaborated with Tabita Rezaire, Navild Acosta, Bearcat, Miss Boogie, Ana Pi, and Julien Creuzet.
Sosa’s current projects involve Pleasure is Power, a multimedia conference around healing bass, sexual autonomy and oshunality, and Black Power Naps, a series of non mixed restful spaces around the world, in collaboration with Navild Acosta. They use their gender studies degree to pop their pussy even more severely than before.
Fannie Sosa currently lives and works between Europe and South-America.
Art Volt is a new platform containing a wide array of programs aimed at supporting recent Fine Arts graduates. Art Volt focuses on initiatives and tools to better equip Concordia’s creative practitioners as they transition out of their academic degree and embark on new projects. The objective is to reinforce the knowledge and practices gained by students during their degree, while providing real-world experiences and connections they can build on in their personal and professional lives.
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