Episode 11: To End The World As We Know It

The capitalist, colonial way of knowing, which has dominated the world for hundreds of years, must end. 

How can we start to know and practice the world to come? 

Through performances, screenings, speculation and collective assembly, Episode 11 brings together anti-colonial artists, filmmakers, musicians, poets, activists, educators and communities who practice or imagine other ways of existing and of conceiving of existence, right here and now.

Join Episode 11 via our livestream here or in person at Tramway, Glasgow. 

Episodes are ongoing, deconstructed festivals: iterative social aesthetic spaces of study that develop narratively over time through a set of evolving themes. Through the lens of abolition, they reaffirm our commitments to the endurance of life-affirming, contingent, intertwined and inseparable sociality.

Episode 11 relates our past enquiries to the violence of contemporary settler colonialism, and the Eurocentric fictions that legitimate it: the possessive individual, whiteness, property and the state. Drawing from anti-colonial, Indigenous, anti-racist, trans feminist, and abolitionist revolutionary struggle in Europe, North Africa, the Levant, Turtle Island and Brazil, the programme will explore insurgent practices of worlding and of knowing the world otherwise, that persist, resist and endure under the duress of colonial violence. 

Schedule

Wednesday, November 13
I AM NOT A NATION-STATE: Talk. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, with Nat Raha
FOUR ENDINGS TO BEGIN: Readings. Masa Nazzal, River MacAskill, Hannah Proctor, Gracie Mae Bradley & Joel White
FOR EVER GAZA: Film performance. Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri 

Thursday, November 14
BRING A WITNESS: Study Session. A Future Collective (Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato)
AGAINST A MONOCULTURE OF THOUGHT: Study Session. Geni Núñez & Amilcar Packer
BARRUNTO: Film. Emilia Beatriz with intro 
A PLOT, A SCANDAL: Film. Ligia Lewis with pre-recorded artist comments
ORIANA: Film. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz with Q&A

Friday, November 15
GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART FRIDAY EVENT: Talk. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
WHEN MY HEART LOOKS FOR YOU, WHERE WILL IT FIND YOU?: Workshop. Sadia Shirazi, Mezna Qato & Sakina Ali
SONIC FICTIONS: Study Session. Rashad Becker & Sunik Kim
ANALYTICS OF EXISTENCE: Study Session. Elizabeth Povinelli with Mijke van der Drift
INTIFADA, REVOLUTION! AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE: Workshop. Hussein Mitha
MORE THAN PERFECT: Discussion. Denise Ferreira da Silva, Arissana Pataxó, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Geni Núñez, Ailton Krenak (by video)

Saturday, November 16
THE WE OF REVOLUTIONARY LOVE: Study Session. Houria Bouteldja
IF THERE IS A FUTURE TO IMAGINE, IT IS ANCESTRAL: Study Session. Study Session. Amilcar Packer & Arissana Pataxó
REHEARSALS FOR LIVING: Readings & Discussion. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Robyn Maynard & Harry Josephine Giles
THE ANCESTRAL PRESENT: Film Screening and Discussion. Karrabing Film Collective with Aiden Sing, Keiran Sing, Rex Sing & Elizabeth A. Povinelli with Elwood Jimmy

Sunday, November 17
TRANS BREAKFAST AT THE END OF THE WORLD: Discussion. Mijke van der Drift & Nat Raha
TOWARD NAKBA AS A PLANETARY PROCESS: Assembly. Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Houria Bouteldja, Avery F. Gordon, with Amirah Silmi & Françoise Vergès online
AQUASOMATICS: Music. Nat Raha & Ailie Ormston
PERFORMANCE: Music. Sunik Kim
PERFORMANCE: Music. Rashad Becker
DJ E: Music. Chuquimamani-Condori

The music programme is a collaboration with Counterflows. 

The full programme information including notes on times, venue and accessibility can be found at Episode 11: To End the World As We Know It. Tickets can be purchased online from Tramway, here.

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Supported by Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Tramway, Glasgow Life and Canada House.