Fuck healing (?) - The Insomniac Dreamers

Ventilator Cinema // 10:00 // € 0 Fuck healing (?) - The Insomniac Dreamers Genre: Summer program Line up: Dr. Hypatia Vourloumis Open: 10:00 - 22:00 hrs Tickets: € 0 Summer program of theory, creation and pleasure Program: 10.00 – 13.00 @ Ventilator cinema - OT301 Lecture/Seminar - Refuse (“How do we rid ourselves of ourselves, and demolish ourselves?”) Dr. Hypatia Vourloumis (Dutch Art Institute) 15.00 – 18.00 @ Ventilator cinema - OT301 Workshops 20.00 – late @ Studios - OT301 Conceptual club night - TBD Steppin' Into Tomorrow Program details: 10.00 – 13.00 Refuse (“How do we rid ourselves of ourselves, and demolish ourselves?”) Lecture/Seminar Dr. Hypatia Vourloumis (Dutch Art Institute) This seminar/lecture/workshop builds on Deleuze’s essay “The Exhausted” and my ongoing theoretical work on practices of anticolonial paralanguage in order to think through how exhausting communication’s ends can offer a turning towards, and attending to, communicability as means.  In Deleuze’s words: "[O]nly an exhausted person can exhaust the possible, because he has renounced all need, preference, goal, or signification.” Thinking of goals and signification as infrastructural logistics, (following Stefano Harney and Fred Moten in The Undercommons and All Incomplete), I understand Deleuze’s call to “exhaust the possible” as bound to a refusal of working towards a certain end. I argue that intentional paralinguistic performances reclaim the means, stay in mere means, and must do so, because the ends carried by the means are historically and ongoingly brutal. How can we think of incompletion and exhaustion together? As Deleuze writes: “the greatest exactitude and the most extreme dissolution; the indefinite exchange of mathematical formulations and the pursuit of the formless or the unformulated. These are the two meanings of exhaustion and both are necessary in order to abolish the real.” Our gathering will think of all the above by way of embracing exhaustion as operation, the question Deleuze poses (in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image) “how do we rid ourselves of ourselves,” and two meanings of the word “refuse”: debris and rejection. 15.00 – 18.00 Theatre of Drag: Healing, Action and Telenovela Clara Saito (Jacuzzi) The workshop invites people to participate in exploring themes such as dissociation, transformation, multiplicity of being/ characters and being a body and spirit in constant flexibility, which I believe is also a political way to experience the world.  It is also an exploration of how we can bring together theory and practice, thought and action, the body and mind, and use performance and theater as a transformative and political way of expressing and acting upon struggles, but all of it in drag. The project is informed by the Theatre of the Oppressed, a community-based technique developed by Augusto Boal, which uses improvisation exercises to help oppressed communities in Brazil find solutions to internal problems through active participation. The workshop includes creating characters, writing scripts, gathering social media content, performing for each other, and having discussions about the struggles the participants face in everyday life. The plan is to mix different tools and collect footage from the creation process and sketches to use in a final screening and live performance exhibition. 20.00 – late TBD Conceptual club night Steppin’ Into Tomorrow TBD More info on the Fuck Healing (?) website (https://www.fuckhealing.nl/home/the-insomniac-dreamers-2023/program) -- (Text and image) https://www.ot301.nl/agenda/13746