Disobedience Archive, Canopy for Broken Time
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Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time) in Dialogue with Raqs Media Collective
The film Xaraasi Xanne (Crossing Voices) by Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré displayed in the section radical ecologies
The Disobedience Archive is a constantly growing video archive with no fixed location initiated in 2005. Comprising more than one hundred documentary and art films at the intersection of art and activism, all show forms of resistance, social struggle and collective self-organisation. Events, voices and gestures realign in new formations, opening up a wide range of viewpoints and interpretations, rather than insisting on one truth only.
Titled Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), this is the most comprehensive presentation to date on view, with fifty film documents in all. The selection of works is a response to the fragility of our time: ecological crises, political polarisation, technological acceleration and ongoing global conflicts.
Raqs Media Collective was invited to engage with the premise of the Disobedience Archive. The Collective, for whom time is a central axis in their practice, asks in turn: How can time be experienced beyond the rigid structures of our present moment?
The exhibition encounters our fractured present with open spatial structures. The starting point for this is the shamiana, a temporary canopy that is easy to erect, and that plays an important role in the everyday life of South Asia. Food is eaten, celebrations are held and mourning takes place under a shamiana – and protesters gather here, too. The simple canopy turns into a symbol of togetherness. For, in the words of Raqs Media Collective, to be together under the shamiana means to share time, to become community, to measure the world not in hours, but in gestures of attentiveness towards others. Curated by Marco Scotini in collaboration with Nadia Schneider Willen, Tasnim Baghdadi and Yasmin Naderi Afschar.
With support by Paula Thomaka, Alessia Riva and Mirta Gianocca
With Samir Abdallah, Ravi Agarwal, Navjot Altaf, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Atelier Impopulaire, Petra Bauer, Ege Berensel, Bernadette Corporation, Ursula Biemann, Wang Bing, Black Audio Film Collective, Seba Calfuqueo, Simone Cangelosi, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Mao Chenyu, Sim Chi Yin, Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Critical Art Ensemble, Chto Delat, Ali Essafi, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Maria Galindo and Mujeres Creando, Alberto Grifi, Raphaël Grisey und Bouba Touré, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Grupo Etcétera…, Barbara Hammer, Khaled Jarrar, Sara Jordenö, Sanjay Kak, Karrabing Film Collective, Bani Khoshnoudi, Pedro Lemebel, LIMINAL and Border Forensics, Silvia Maglioni und Graeme Thomson, Angela Melitopoulos, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Pınar Öğrenci, Daniela Ortiz, Paloma Polo, Oliver Ressler, Mia Eve Rollow & Caleb Duarte, Güliz Sağlam, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Roy Samaha, Urbonas Studio, Mohanad Yaqubi, Želimir Žilnik. And works by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Ursula Biemann and Graciela Carnevale from the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Location
Zürich, CH
Disobedience Archive, Canopy for Broken Time
