11.00 - 13.00
Filmscreening, followed by discussion lead by Barbara Mahlknecht (English)
Marlies Pöschl, Aurore, 2019
FR/AT, 2K video, 21 min, colour, 5.1 sound
María Ruido, Estado de malestar (State of Distress), 2018-2019
Video, 63 min, colour, sound
This event brings together films discussing the contradications and potentials to the organization and infrastructures of care in neoliberal capitalism. María Ruido's State of Distress (2018-2019) reflects on the social conditions of mental health that are experienced as a private one, albeit connected with the burden of job insecurity, eternal uncertainty and extreme individualism.
Marlies Pöschl's semi-documentary science-fiction Aurore (2019) envisions the future of care and the automatization of affect in elderly care. These works, released before the Covid19 pandemic, set a perspective from which to discuss the socio-political framings, challenges and collective learnings in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic.
These works, released before the Covid19 pandemic, set a perspective from which to
discuss the socio-political framings, challenges and collective learnings in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic.
This event is part of the Syllabus Summer School Retreat
Register with an email to danielle@kunsthal.gent
Barbara Mahlknecht is a feminist researcher, curator and art educator. She currently focuses on the histories and potentialities of feminist politics of social reproduction and care.