Weaving our fishing nets is a co-learning assembly consisting of a residency and a public programme hosted by Fisherwomxn at Thkio Ppalies. Like a docking pole planted in the open sea it aims to anchor our community in feminist and anti-colonial thought and to provide a space for its collective study. Floating side by side, the resident artists, invited practitioners and the public will seek to challenge the prevailing eurocentric, patriarchal and hegemonic approach to knowledge by reimagining the space and function of the library. How do knowledge(s) intersect in the context of cyprus and the eastern mediterranean? How can we hold space for other forms of knowing that exist beyond the dominant cannon? Through a series of workshops, screenings, readings and other activations the program will propose an expanded library, one which seeks for answers beyond the book format and makes space for oral traditions, craftwork, somatic practices and other forms of knowing.
Fisherwomxn started as a literary journal aiming to deconstruct narratives that push and pull us from the places we call home. We wrote to each other around questions that we could not answer on our own: How can we bear the responsibility of regenerating our lands in our postcolonial realities? How can we find alternative spaces of refuge and of being together beyond the futility of nation states and other imperialistic structures? We have been organizing gatherings around these questions, to read and study together.
Resident artists: Seta Astreou Karides, Nicola Mitropoulou, Loizos Olympios, Rahme Veziroglu
Visiting resident artists: Sedef Karayel, Khaled Khalifa
Weaving our fishing nets is a co-learning assembly consisting of a residency and a public programme hosted by Fisherwomxn at Thkio Ppalies. Like a docking pole planted in the open sea it aims to anchor our community in feminist and anti-colonial thought and to provide a space for its collective study. Floating side by side, the resident artists, invited practitioners and the public will seek to challenge the prevailing eurocentric, patriarchal and hegemonic approach to knowledge by reimagining the space and function of the library. How do knowledge(s) intersect in the context of cyprus and the eastern mediterranean? How can we hold space for other forms of knowing that exist beyond the dominant cannon? Through a series of workshops, screenings, readings and other activations the program will propose an expanded library, one which seeks for answers beyond the book format and makes space for oral traditions, craftwork, somatic practices and other forms of knowing.
Fisherwomxn started as a literary journal aiming to deconstruct narratives that push and pull us from the places we call home. We wrote to each other around questions that we could not answer on our own: How can we bear the responsibility of regenerating our lands in our postcolonial realities? How can we find alternative spaces of refuge and of being together beyond the futility of nation states and other imperialistic structures? We have been organizing gatherings around these questions, to read and study together.
Resident artists: Seta Astreou Karides, Nicola Mitropoulou, Loizos Olympios, Rahme Veziroglu
Visiting resident artists: Sedef Karayel, Khaled Khalifa