Cinema as Assembly
Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.
Cinema as Assembly is committed to processes of filmmaking and circulation rooted in forms of indigenous and post-capitalist visual sovereignty and autonomy, and in decolonial and non-Eurocentric cosmovisions and to supporting constituencies in the global South that have been systematically marginalised and exploited by settler states and the forces of extractive capitalism. At the same time, it sees cinema as a space of solidarity at the planetary level, around intersectional indigenous, black, feminist and working-class struggles.
Particularly, the project sees cinema as a space of:
- Collective construction of counter-histories and alternative memories.
- Connection between assemblies located in different political geographies
- Transgenerational solidarity
- Imagination and prefiguration of the future
- Knowledge production and conservation
- Ecological and material intervention
Cinema as Assembly combines the activation of local projects and the collective reflection on the political potential of cinema, in developing imaginaries and practices of ecological, economic, and social justice.
Working group: Natalia Arcos, Ariella Azoulay, Filipa César, Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain – MTL Collective, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Chema Gonzalez, Jasmina Metwaly, Massimiliano Mollona, Amilcar Paker, Zeyno Pekünlu, Elizabeth Povinelli, Philip Rikz, Maya Scherr-Willson, Nancy Wachowich
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Related activities
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15 Jun 2024 –24 Nov Van AbbemuseumThe Soils Project
‘The Soils Project’ is part of an eponymous, long-term research initiative involving TarraWarra Museum of Art (Wurundjeri Country, Australia), the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Struggles for Sovereignty, a collective based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It works through specific and situated practices that consider soil, as both metaphor and matter.
Seeking and facilitating opportunities to listen to diverse voices and perspectives around notions of caring for land, soil and sovereign territories, the project has been in development since 2018. An international collaboration between three organisations, and several artists, curators, writers and activists, it has manifested in various iterations over several years. The group exhibition ‘Soils’ at the Van Abbemuseum is part of Museum of the Commons. -
4 Oct 2023 –22 Jan 2024 VCRCKyiv Biennial 2023
L’Internationale Confederation is a proud partner of this year’s edition of Kyiv Biennial.
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12 Apr 2023 –14 Apr MACBAWhere are the Oases?
PEI OBERT seminar
with Kader Attia, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz, Emily Jacir, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Nuttall and Françoise VergèsAn oasis is the potential for life in an adverse environment.
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14 Dec 2023 MACBAAnti-imperialism in the 20th century and anti-imperialism today: similarities and differences
PEI OBERT seminar
Lecture by Ramón GrosfoguelIn 1956, countries that were fighting colonialism by freeing themselves from both capitalism and communism dreamed of a third path, one that did not align with or bend to the politics dictated by Washington or Moscow. They held their first conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
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2023 – 2024 Museo Reina SofiaSchool of Commoning Practices
This exchange programme gathers different schools organized by volunteers and migrant communities in Athens (Open School for Migrants) and Madrid (School of Rights, Escuela de Español and Situated mediation School) in order to share their knowledge, exchange strategies and reflect on the experience of working together with migrant communities.
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2023 – 2026 Institute of Radical ImaginationMuseo Reina SofiaCinema as Assembly
Cinema as Assembly investigates cinema as a space of social gathering and political engagement that prefigures and enacts forms of living beyond colonial capitalism.
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1 Sep 2023 –30 Jun 2024 Museo Reina SofiaTeam of Teams
This project researches citizen participation as a fundamental pillar in the creation of community.
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1 Apr 2024 –21 Dec 2025 Museo Reina SofiaSustainable Art Production
The Studies Center of Museo Reina Sofía will publish an open call for 4 residencies of artistic practice for projects that address the emergencies and challenges derived from the climate crisis such as food sovereignty, architecture and sustainability, communal practices, diasporas and exiles or ecological and political sustainability, among others.
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21 Jun 2023 –6 Jul Van AbbemuseumMaria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Recalling Earth: Decoloniality and Demodernity
Course Directors: Prof. Walter Mignolo & Dr. Rolando VázquezRecalling Earth and learning worlds and worlds-making will be the topic of chapter 14th of the María Lugones Summer School that will take place at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
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24 Jan 2024 Institute of Radical ImaginationMSU ZagrebRed, Green, Black and White
A performative inquiry by Institute of Radical Imagination and MSU Zagreb
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23 Apr 2023 –30 Sep 2024 MSNArchive of the Conceptual Art of Odesa in the 1980s
The research project turns to the beginning of 1980s, when conceptual art circle emerged in Odesa, Ukraine. Artists worked independently and in collaborations creating the first examples of performances, paradoxical objects and drawings.
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24 Aug 2024 –30 Aug Moderna galerijaZRC SAZUSummer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school is organised by Moderna galerija in Ljubljana in partnership with ZRC SAZU (the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) as part of the L’Internationale project Museum of the Commons.
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15 Feb 2024 –15 Mar Moderna galerijaZRC SAZUOpen Call – Summer School: Our Many Easts
Our Many Easts summer school takes place in Ljubljana 24–30 August and the application deadline is 15 March. Courses will be held in English and cover topics such as the legacy of the Eastern European avant-gardes, archives as tools of emancipation, the new “non-aligned” networks, art in times of conflict and war, ecology and the environment.
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10 Feb 2024 –1 Apr MACBASong for Many Movements: Scenes of Collective Creation
An ephemeral experiment in which the ground floor of MACBA becomes a stage for encounters, conversations and shared listening.
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17 Apr 2024 –20 Apr Institute of Radical ImaginationGathering into the Maelstrom
‘Gathering into the Maelstrom’ in Venice at Sale Docks is a four-day programme curated by Institute of Radical Imagination (IRI) and Sale Docks.
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16 May 2024 –21 Jul Institute of Radical ImaginationGathering into the Maelstrom (exhibition)
‘Gathering into the Maelstrom’ is curated by Institute of Radical Imagination and Sale Docks within the framework of Museum of the Commons.
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5 Jun 2024 Museo Reina SofiaPalestine Is Everywhere
‘Palestine Is Everywhere’ is an encounter and screening at Museo Reina Sofía organised together with Cinema as Assembly as part of Museum of the Commons. The conference starts at 18:30 pm (CET) and will also be streamed on the online platform linked below.
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4 Sep 2024 –15 Sep Museo Reina SofiaOpen Call: Research Residencies
The Centro de Estudios of Museo Reina Sofía releases its open call for research residencies as part of the climate thread within the Museum of the Commons programme.
Related contributions and publications
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…and the Earth along. Tales about the making, remaking and unmaking of the world.
Martin Pogačar14 Nov 2023 ... and the Earth alongClimatePast in the Present -
Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto
Institute of Radical Imagination15 Nov 2023 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoClimateInstitute of Radical Imagination -
The Kitchen, an Introduction to Subversive Film with Nick Aikens, Reem Shilleh and Mohanad Yaqubi
Nick Aikens, Subversive Film13 Jul 2023 lumbungPast in the PresentVan Abbemuseum -
The Repressive Tendency within the European Public Sphere
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu6 Dec 2023 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Troubles with the East(s)
Bojana Piškur22 Jan 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Right now, today, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world
Françoise Vergès21 Dec 2023 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Body Counts, Balancing Acts and the Performativity of Statements
Mick Wilson20 Dec 2023 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Until Liberation I: Learning Palestine
Learning Palestine Group8 Dec 2023 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Until Liberation II: Learning Palestine
Learning Palestine Group12 Jan 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Lumbung practices to resist and collaborate through art
Constanza Yévenes Biénzobas30 Aug 2023 lumbungSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Populism. A Dialogue on Art, Representation and Institutions in the Crisis of Democracy
Chantal Mouffe, Didier Eribon8 Jun 2017 DialoguesMuseo Reina Sofia -
Congresso Internacional Extraordinário dos Críticos de Arte, 1959
27 Apr 2017 DialoguesMuseo Reina Sofia -
Art Museums and Democracy
Charles Esche, Manuel Borja-Villel, Bart de Baere12 Dec 2016 DialoguesM HKAVan AbbemuseumMuseo Reina Sofia -
L'Internationale statement in support of MNCARS
L'Internationale Confederation4 Nov 2014 Statements and editorialsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es sl nl tr -
The Veil of Peace
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu31 Oct 2023 Past in the Presenttranzit.ro -
Triángulo Rosa / Pink Triangle
Alicia Bernardos, Trinidad A. Labrador, Carolina León, Mercedes Sánchez Sáinz, Marco Antonio Theis Fuentes, Miquel Missé17 Dec 2020 Museo Reina Sofia -
Editorial: Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency
L’Internationale Online Editorial Board29 Nov 2023 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyStatements and editorialsPast in the PresentEN es sl tr ar -
Really Useful Knowledge
2014 Museo Reina Sofia -
Minimal Resistance. Between Late Modernism and Globalisation: Artistic Practices During the 80s and 90s
2013 Museo Reina Sofia -
Song for Many Movements. Opening Performance Live on Radio Alhara
Jokkoo with/con Miramizu, Rasheed Jalloul & Sabine Salamé23 Feb 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencySonic CommonsPast in the PresentMACBAEN es -
We Have Been Here Forever. Palestinian Poets Write Back
Rana Issa4 Mar 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
Indra's Web
Vandana Singh1 Mar 2024 ... and the Earth alongPast in the PresentClimateZRC SAZU -
Mix tape: Let's Funk Up All Genders!
Materia Hache / Others to the Front19 Mar 2024 Sonic CommonsSituated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Diary of a Crossing
Baqiya and Yu’ad27 Mar 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the Present -
The Silence Has Been Unfolding For Too Long
The Free Palestine Initiative Croatia11 Apr 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyPast in the PresentSituated OrganizationsInstitute of Radical ImaginationMSU Zagreb -
One Day, Freedom Will Be
Françoise Vergès19 Apr 2024 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoTowards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyInstitute of Radical ImaginationClimate -
Everything will stay the same if we don’t speak up
L’Internationale Confederation17 Apr 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencyStatements and editorialsPast in the PresentSituated Organizations -
Art and Materialisms: At the intersection of New Materialisms and Operaismo
Emanuele Braga1 May 2024 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoInstitute of Radical ImaginationClimate -
War, Peace and Image Politics: Part 1, Who Has a Right to These Images?
Jelena Vesić14 May 2024 Past in the PresentZRC SAZU -
Art, Radical Ecologies and Class Composition: On the possible alliance between historical and new materialisms
Marco Baravalle12 Jun 2024 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoInstitute of Radical ImaginationClimate -
Live set: A Love Letter to the Global Intifada
Precolombian13 Jun 2024 Towards Collective Study in Times of EmergencySonic CommonsPast in the PresentMACBAEN es -
‘Territorios en resistencia’, Artistic Perspectives from Latin America
Rosa Jijón & Francesco Martone (A4C), Sofía Acosta Varea, Boloh Miranda Izquierdo, Anamaría Garzón26 Jun 2024 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoClimateInstitute of Radical Imagination -
Unhinging the Dual Machine: The Politics of Radical Kinship for a Different Art Ecology
Federica Timeto1 Jul 2024 Art for Radical Ecologies ManifestoInstitute of Radical ImaginationClimate -
Cultivating Abundance
Åsa Sonjasdotter28 Jun 2024 The Climate ForumClimatePast in the PresentHDK-Valand -
Naming a Collective Cause in a Foreign Land
Dagmary Olívar Graterol, Paola de la Vega Velastegui5 Jul 2024 Situated OrganizationsMuseo Reina SofiaEN es -
Reading list - Summer School: Our Many Easts
Summer School - Our Many Easts6 Sep 2024 Past in the PresentModerna galerija