#letitia beatriz

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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.”

Read the full text here

Thanks Georgia!

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ficitional documentation from positons of power performance

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Research Mixtape for Venimos Desde El Futuro / WE COME FROM THE FUTURE by Letitia Beatriz

Sonidos Hacia El Fin Del Patriarcado / Sounds Towards The End of the Patriarchy ~

http://elfuturo.fabricainutil.com/

1 hour broadcast from the year 2114, listening back to some of the sounds that brought down the patriarchy - 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. —- elfuturo.fabricainutil.com/

Full Radio Show here

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Positions of Power

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.

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Cinenova Monthly Screenings @ The Showroom

http://www.theshowroom.org/programme.html?id=1897,2031

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...... 

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WHO TAKES THE RAP

Friday 19th December 2014

5-8pm

Film Screening and Fundraiser  

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

------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

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T R A C K L I S T 

-La Femme Fetal - Digable Planets

-attempts at noises that go beyond the couple-form

- sortof scripted, semi consensual, together we are wondering how care can be communicated across bodies, speakers, listeners -  even when we're not in the same space or time 

-DJ Posture fictional live set 01 featuring Audre Lorde reading Uses of the Erotic, The Erotic As Power as a bassline to explore, queer, noise and complicate dance music, DJ Postures, dancefloor hierarchies, sex-positive love songs...

  -as ever, a multitude of absences ..

- fictional interviews across space and time with sounds and texts from: Marriage Will Never Set Us Free, Shedding, Why Sexuality Is Work, the sounds of our domestic labor, Love Without Borders: Intimacy, Identity, and the State of Compulsory Monogamy,Thinking Sex, Burst of Light, conversations with our friends and lovers, Queering Heterosexuality, The Love of Others, Dreaming The Dark......