Al-Nisāʾ

Maia Torp Neergaard
GERMANY/SWEDEN/DENMARK

after a room

Naomi Pacifique
UK/NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND

If I could name you myself (I would hold you forever)

Hope Strickland
UK

NÍOBE

SPAIN

Haptic Poetics

Curated by Bouchra Assou

“A poem, to my mind, creates visible or auditory forms for something that is invisible, which is the feeling, or the emotion, or the metaphysical content of the movement.” 
Maya Deren, Film Culture, No. 29, 1963

Drawing from the outstanding pool of student film submissions, this year’s student program conjures narratives of embodied, tactile, and multisensory visuality. These exceptional works foreground material reflections on rituality, collective memory, dreams, temporality, and Language.

Through a blend of choreographed movement and dance, haptic sound, voiceover, and montages of skin, water, and landscapes, the films in this showcase effectively mobilize the
audience’s senses and invite them to interact with/become a physical part of the work.

“Haptic Poetics” introduces us to a series of intimate and evocative meditations on the body as a site of resistance, healing, and survival.

— Bouchra Assou

Content note: Al-Nisā by Maia Torp Neergaard includes mentions of domestic abuse. 
If I could name you myself includes mentions of sexual violence.

Curated by
Maia Torp Neergaard, Naoami Pacifique, Hope Strickland, Laura Moreano Bueno, Yudhajit Basu, Hovig Hagopian
CC
Date / Time
July 5, 2022
11:00AM – 11:00PM EDT

(ARTISTS)

Maia Torp Neergaard, Naomi Pacifique, Hope Strickland
Presented With:

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.