LETITIA BEATRIZ
aka ~*care&rage*~
is a collaborative entity ; a practice of entanglement with and through queer/feminist relations. ; zi exists through trans-temporal un-subjectivities embodied in daily performances and lived struggles of gender, bodies, time and space....
careandrage (at) gmail (dot com)
Sounds Towards The End of the Patriarchy / Sonidas Hacia El Fin Del Patriarcardo
will be broadcast at Radio Festival
DIY Space For London ~ Saturday 9th July, 12pm - 6pm
tunez to end the patriarchy and trans*temporal safetydrag vests ^^ Towards dance floor braver spaces. Made for moving to the beats of collective empowerment & practical solidaritiez >> towards a world without rape cultures ~ 4 all u gendernauts, STAR people, witches, mxvens & celestial beings ✧*:*:･
Georgia Horgan wrote about Positions of Power performance on their blog
”Letitia Beatriz’s work promotes knowledge-sharing whilst experimenting with new types of knowledge-producing; their performances and film screenings are generous and informative, whilst exploring alternative methods of communication. These methods not only take in to account the cerebral or academic dimension of the subject matter, but also consider the body, the visual, and sonic material as tools to share radical ideas. [...] their practice not only discusses feminist theory and history, but also picks apart and reconsiders the foundations of how we teach and learn. What is presented is not just research around feminism, but an embodied queer feminist methodology.”
is a series of collaborative working meetings, presentations, and events of over 40 female artists, writers, curators and thinkers that will produce and distribute content addressing questions around the role of “We” in contemporary art practice. Working across South London Gallery, Flat Time House, and Raven Row, and beginning with a week of events between the 27th April - 2nd May 2015, the discussions and presentations of WE (Not I) will revolve around the topics of accumulation in collaborative art practice, the development of a “we” (non-singular) voice in art authorship, the gendered nature of art historic genius, female value, piracy, empathy as a radical position, and the edges of the self in relation to both circulated imagery and the medicated body .
Daily private work meetings between the female participants will evolve in a way that both reflects and enacts the idea of the 'non-singular' voice of artistic production. Sharing and discussion throughout the week will be the principal mode of practice, acting as a site of productive space for each of the participants.
WE (Not I) has been organised by the artist Melissa Gordon and the writer Marina Vishmidt, who have together previously, with Kaisa Lassinaro, produced the publications LABOUR (2011) and PERSONA (2013). WE (Not I) will also take place at Artists Space, New York with a different group of participants in September 2015. The content developed during both sessions of WE (Not I) will be published in a series of magazines in 2015/16 edited by Gordon and Vishmidt.
WE (Not I) in London includes contributions by: Christine Battersby, Sara De Bondt, E. C. Feiss and Larne Abse Gogarty, Avery F. Gordon, Melissa Gordon, Laetitia Beatriz, Catherine Grant, Rana Hamadeh, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Fiona Jardine, Eva Kenny, Kaisa Lassinaro, Gil Leung, Marie Lund, Daria Martin, Karolin Meunier, Rita McBride , Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Kathy Noble, Emily Pethick, Andrea Phillips, Falke Pisano, Nina Power, Irene Revell, Jenny Richards, Rosalie Schweiker & Maria Guggenbichler, Lisette Smits, Natasha Soobramanien, Grace Schwindt, Corin Sworn, Lisa Tan, Joanne Tatham, Cara Tolmie, Eva Weinmayr & Andrea Francke, Jessica Wiesner, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Marina Vishmidt, Isla Leaver-Yap & Vivian Ziherl
Public events will punctuate and bring to the public the material that is developing throughout the WE (Not I) week including:
Tuesday, 28th April, 7-9 pm Cubitt Gallery
Manual Labours Reading Group hosted by Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope
Manual Labours: The Complaining Body
is an exploration into the world of workplace complaints led by Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards with artist Sarah Browne, choreographer Hamish MacPherson and writer Ivor Southwood. The smile which has become the required uniform of workers in coffee shops, classrooms, care homes and call centres hides and stifles our ability to complain and collectivise around our working conditions. The Complaining Body expands Manual Labours’ research into physical relationships to work dependent on emotional and affective labour where the body is neglected often left at the door as computer based working commences. Throughout the project we are holding a series of reading groups expanding our research. This reading group will be led by Sophie and Jenny and focused on the text ‘Feminist Killjoys’ in Sara Ahmed’sThe Promise of Happiness 2010.
Wednesday 29th April, 7-9 pm South London Gallery
The films of Nashashibi / Skaer
The collaborative films of Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer, who alongside their individual practices have been making films together since 2005, invoke images that attempt to enact transformations among actors, objects, and contexts. This is the first time all of their collaborative films are presented together.
Friday 1st May, 7pm onwards Flat Time House
Moving from I to WE: an evening of readings from the WE (Not I) sessions
Including readings by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams from their novel-in-progress "Diego Garcia", Eva Kenny: Are you a female genius?, Letitia Beatriz: Incantations, Gil Leung: Acts of Love and Pretence , Joanne Tatham, Karolin Meunier, Vivian Zherl: the WE (Not I) Manifesto, and Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt amongst others. Bringing the drafts of content produced during the week, the evening of readings will serve as an experimental site of presentation and discussion which will encourage a loose association between audience and presenter by expanding the format of the sessions to a public evening. Readings will be at random throughout the house during which a BBQ will be shared in the garden.
All welcome, booking is not required
Saturday 2 May, 12-7 pm, South London Gallery
WE (Not I): On Creativity and Value
will be a full day symposium including presentations by: Christine Battersby, Eva Kenny, Andrea Phillips and Vivian Ziherl and a new film by Lis Rhodes. The symposium will begin with an introduction by Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt, and will be followed by a keynote address from Christine Battersby on the role and construct of creativity as a position of value in western history. Eva Kenny will follow in part by responding to "Gender and Genius" (1989) by Battersby, and expanding on the question of Female Genius. Andrea Phillips will present on the gendered nature of value as capital, and the action of modes of devaluation as political strategy. Finally Vivian Ziherl will present a manifesto collectively developed during the WE (Not I) week and a screening of The Red Brigades Generation by Loredana Antonelli.
Radiophrenia are broadcasting 2 earlier Letitia Beatriz radio works. Sounds towards the end of patriarchy will transmit at 12am on Friday and Letitia Beatriz with DJ Posture will be on at 1.30am Saturday! Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station transmitting across Glasgow on 87.9fm, 13th – 19th April, 2015. A week-long exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station aims to promote radio as an art form, encouraging and challenging radical new approaches to the medium. The broadcast schedule will include live shows, pre-recorded features and a daily series of ‘live-to-air’performances. The majority of the programme is made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound and radio works.
Saturday 14 March 2015 | 6pm
Letitia Beatriz
Positions of Power
Letitia Beatriz performs a filmic event around sexual reproductive pharma technologies.
Exploring mechanisms of control in relation to gendered bodies – radical practices and regular technologies; normalised medication; queer resistances – of both reproduction and production.
Download ‘recipe for unproduction’ and list of sources here
During the event they will share sounds, texts, rituals and incantations (domestic, deviant and otherwise) from w.i.t.c.h.es, STAR people, and allies – and several clips from films including Positions of Power (1983, Jacky Garstin & Delyse Hawkins): a documentary about midwifery and the physical positions women assume during child birth, and La Operación (1982, Ana María García): exploring the histories of the birth control pill trials and the mass sterilisation of women in the context of Puerto Rico.
'Positions of Power' is distributed by Cinenova: Women’s Film and Video Distributor, based in London.
Part of a programme of events for Georgia Horgan’s exhibition 'Machine Room' at Collective. These events aim to discuss how women, the body, and labour are implicated in contemporary capitalism. These themes are framed by Georgia’s research into the link between the Scottish witch hunts and the growth of the textile industry.
Image credits: Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie, yarrow root, pharmacy etymology, and The Pill.
This month starts the first of a monthly series of screenings from Cinenova at The Showroom in London. Letitia Beatriz will be hosting one down the line......
Georgia Horgan's project Machine Room at Collective Gallery in Edinburgh
Georgia has produced a project that explores the intersection between the growth of the textile industry and patterns of witch hunting in Scotland. Taking the form of a workroom, the exhibition contains images, artifacts and re-published historical and contemporary texts that highlight alternative historical or political narratives.
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici is a central text in the exhibition. Federici’s text charts the persecution of ‘witches’ from medieval Europe to colonial Latin America, exposing this as much more than hysterical superstition, but a nuanced political manoeuvre. Placing an emphasis on generative, dispersed and networked methods of relaying information - such as conversation, distribution and self-publishing - the exhibition proposes Scotland as a model for Federici’s ideas about the crucial, and often overlooked link between the development of capitalism and the subjugation of women. A series of events will be housed in the gallery space, discussing how women, the body and labour are implicated in contemporary capitalism. This will include a screening of Performing the Border by Ursula Biemann and an event hosted by Glasgow-based artists Letitia Beatriz.
Who Takes The Rap - Immigration
by Lai Ngan Walsh & Women and the Law Collective
UK 1986, 38 mins
Distributed by Cinenova: Women's Film & Video Distributor
The film covers the history of immigration law in Britain from 1903-1986. It describes how different groups of immigrants arrived for work in the UK, only to find increasingly restrictive laws, which kept them in low-paid, unskilled work and identified them as "undesirable".
Footage of the Garners' Steak House strike and the Grunwick strike is included to show how these workers fought back against racism. Specific laws are examined and the tape includes interviews with a number of immigrant women. The voices of two women rappers provide the commentary throughout, and the story of one woman's experience trying to bring her son into Britain runs intermittently through the tape, reinforcing the theme.
Childcare, food and drinks will be provided
& there will be translation into French and Arabic
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The screening is in support of Unity Sisters: a group of women going through the asylum and immigration system, in Glasgow. We aim to empower women against the system.
Sonidos Hacia El Fin Del Patriarcado / Sounds Towards The End of the Patriarchy ~
A 1 hour broadcast from the year 2114, listening back to some of the sounds that brought down the patriarchy - transmitting on Venimos Desde El Futuro: un estación de radio temporera transmitiendo durante 4 días desde el el año 2114 y reportando sobre la vida después del patriarcado.. (a temporary radio station transmitting for four days from the year 2114, reporting about life after the patriarchy) --- Organised by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico ---
http://elfuturo.fabricainutil.com/
Sonidos Hacia El Fin Del Patriarcardo is made up of sounds made, given, witnessed by: Ash Reid, Veronica Aristeo, Romany Dear, Giles Baily, Cara Tolmie, Marina Vishmidt, Amelia Bywater, Rebecca Wilcox, Rudi Brito, Joan Sweeney, Anna McLauchlan, Jamie Crewe, Bryony McIntyre, Meike Tischer, Barry Esson, Maria Gleu, and Letitia Beatriz.
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