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Sheida Soleimani, Delara (1), 2015, Archival pigment print, 101.6 x 68.6 cm, 40 x 27 in., Edition 1 of 3 plus 1 artist's proof, SS.2015.003. © Sheida Soleimani. Courtesy of Edel Assanti
Talk
What is an act of feminist resistance? - Panel Discussion
9 Mar 2024
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£10.00 / £8.00 MEMBER / £8.00 CONCESSION
Address
- 65 Peckham Road
- London
- SE5 8UH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 36, 436
- Oval, Vauxhall Underground Stations
- Peckham Rye, Denmark Hill Overground Stations
Using the works in Acts of Resistance: Feminisms, Photography and the Art of Protest exhibition as a prompt, this event explores the question; What is a feminist act of resistance?
About
How are feminist acts produced? What do they respond to? What is their role in transforming the world around us?
The public programme for Acts of Resistance is curated by Lola Olufemi. Lola Olufemi chairs a panel discussion with Sofia Karim, Sheida Soleimani and Rafeef Ziadah.
I don’t believe the imagination can fix everything (I am a rigorous materialist!), but it can do some of the work: the work of creating openings where there were previously none. – Jackie Wang
ABOUT SOFIA KARIM
Sofia Karim has practiced architecture for over 20 years at studios including Norman Foster’s in London and Peter Eisenman’s in New York. Her practice combines architecture, visual art, and activism. The incarceration of her uncle (photographer and activist Shahidul Alam) led to the development of her theories on an ‘Architecture of Disappearance’. She explores architecture as a language of struggle and resistance. Her activism focuses on human rights across Bangladesh and India. She campaigns for the release of imprisoned artists and political prisoners. She is the founder of Turbine Bagh, a joint artists’ movement against fascism and authoritarianism and platform for political art and activism.
ABOUT SHEIDA SOLEIMANI
Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist, educator, and activist. Soleimani makes work that combines photography with sculpture, collage, and film, to highlight her critical perspectives on historical and contemporary socio-political occurrences. She is interested in the intersections of art and activism and how social media has shaped the landscape in current political affairs and uprisings.
ABOUT LOLA OLUFEMI
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and Stuart Hall foundation researcher from London based in the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media at the University of Westminster. Her work focuses on the uses of the political imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021) and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective.
ABOUT RAFEEF ZIADAH
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian spoken word artist and human rights activist based in London, UK. Her performance of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral within days of its release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music. Since releasing her first album, Rafeef has headlined prestigious performance venues across several countries with powerful readings on war, exile, gender and racism.
ACCESS
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