ENDURING SOMETIMES WARRING

December 9 2012
From 6pm to 9pm

With works by:

Barbara Hammer
and
Chelsea Knight

Performance by:
Malin Arnell

Broadside Press books and readings by:
Chris Rutherford, Gloria House, Al Ward and Aurora Harris


Curated by Ulrika Gomm and Clara López

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Ulrika Gomm is a Swedish artist who has been invited to Detroit to carry out a 3 month art residency at INCA. Her practice is hard to describe, since it can vary from video or lecture performance to text, but it is always informed by the environment in which it is constructed. Detroit has a powerful atmosphere, a transient past and a uncertain present. How to interact without the proper time for research? Instead, can the intersection of bodies and space be sensed? As a result of a previous visit to the city, Gomm met Aurora Harris, poet and board member of the publishing house Broadside Press. Broadside Press has a long history of promoting literature with an aim towards self-determination – literature as an emancipatory act and the manifestation of a critique. It felt like that lucky encounter had to be present in the formulation of this event. Language triggers echoes. Following a wish to challenge understandings and the limits of what we tend to identify as language, Gomm invited art worker Clara Lopez to collaborate with her in this project in order to gather a set of works that portray different practices, different ruptures in the understanding of language, body and act. As a result of these various collaborations, Enduring Sometimes Warring has come out. The title, coming from an "oblique" reading of the Audre Lorde text Call, refers to the silent resistance that enduring entails. The continuous upholding of certain dynamics that in rupture situations, breakage points, are transformed into loud shouts, changing the language and the signs in which the struggle can be read.

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This conflagration will be composed of the films; Dyketactics by filmmaker Barbara Hammer, I Lay Claim To You by artist Chelsea Knight, a performance by artist Malin Arnell, readings by Broadside Press representatives Chris Rutherford, Gloria House, Al Ward and Aurora Harris, past and present Broadside Press releases highlighted in the INCA library, the presence of all our bodies cruising in the space of INCA, interacting with a variety of interpretations and languages, exchanging impressions and experiences of our endurance, perhaps even sometimes warring.

Enduring Sometimes Warring will take place on Sunday, December 9th from 6 to 9pm. During the evening Chelsea Knight’s I Lay Claim To You will be playing and Barbara Hammer’s Dyketactics will be screened one time. Malin Arnell’s performance Possession Principle, Flames of Protection and Broadside Press participation will happen throughout the evening.

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Curated by Ulrika Gomm and Clara López

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INCA: Institute for Neo Connotative Action
750 Delaware St. Detroit, MI