{"id":23382,"date":"2018-07-12T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T22:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=23382"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T09:58:43","slug":"web-residents-refiguring-the-feminist-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/web-residents-refiguring-the-feminist-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Residents \u00bbRefiguring the Feminist Future\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[451,505,463],"project_type":[725,733],"class_list":["post-23382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-web-residencies","project-calls-2018","project-refiguring-the-feminist-future","project_type-formats","project_type-jurors-statement"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"When artist Morehshin Allahyari issued an open call<\/a> for a female future, the response was overwhelming: More than 200 artists, activists, poets, writers, feminists, and dreamers answered with project proposals for challenging existing histories and speculative futures through storytelling and counternarratives imagining using the web as their platform. Four applicants were chosen for the web residencies by Solitude<\/a> & ZKM<\/a>. Read a statement by the juror and check out the concept texts by the new residents Umber Majeed, Tesia Komalski, Luiza Prado, and Rasheedah Phillips, who will work on their projects over the next four weeks.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nFor the web residencies call on the topic \u00bbRefiguring the Feminist Future,\u00ab we hoped for submissions that would provide insight into new reimaginations and possibilities of the female future; ideas that could claim nonlinear time and noncontiguous space; stories and poetics that could use the web as an activist\/imaginative platform, or would make something invisible visible in refiguring the Feminist Futures. We asked \u00bbHow can we tell stories of alternative (and specially nonwestern) futures that are not that of Silicon Valley? How can mythology, fiction\/science fiction, and other forms of digital storytelling become practices for being more visible?\u00ab\r\n\r\nIn selecting the four winners, I looked for projects that somehow met these criteria and answered some of these questions in the most creative and meaningful ways. Projects that go beyond the dominant Western ideas of the future and focus on a feminism that is more than women (a non-male, non-cis, non-white, nonwestern re-figuration)."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

\u00bbThe Future(s) Are Black Quantum Womanist\u00ab<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\nby Rasheedah Phillips<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12212],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"In Rasheedah Phillips\u2019s proposal<\/a>, she proposes \u00bbThe Black Woman Temporal Portal:\u00ab a toolkit focusing on nonlinear timescape\/time displacement, preparing the black women, femmes, and girls to create the Black womanist, quantum future(s)."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

\u00bbAll Directions At Once\u00ab<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\nby Luiza Prado<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12128],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Similarly, Luiza Prado proposes<\/a> to use the web as a platform for a GIF essay for \u00bbreframing of the history of birth control, presenting narratives not as part of a linear and universal continuum, but rather as part of a fragmented, fast-paced pluriverse that meshes what is perceived as past, present, and future.\u00ab\r\n\r\nBoth Phillips and Prado expand the web to a space for poetics and activism: building toolkits and archives that empower a nonlinear representation of histories and futures of and by and for women of color; which has been hidden and silenced by our world\u2019s political and social systems."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

\u00bbIn The Name of Hypersurface of the Present\u00ab<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\nby Umber Majeed<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12191],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Umber Majeed\u2019s proposal<\/a> takes the form of a powerful speculative fiction exploring \u00bbthe feminist historicization of Pakistan as the first \u203aMuslim nuclear state\u2039 through state and familial archives \u2026 subversively implicating the bodies of citizens specifically women as the containers to perpetuate state sanctioned notions of love, science, and nature.\u00ab"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"

\u00bbPhotosynthetic Transgenesis: Chronicles of a Moss Woman\u00ab<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\r\nby Tesia Kosmalski<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":false,"img":[12161],"img_gallery_format":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Tesia Kosmalski imagines<\/a> a future for the refigured female body in which \u00bba woman plans to heal her painful skeletal disorder by traveling to a moss-covered volcanic island. Scientists there have been synthesizing human bone and moss tissue to encourage new plant growth in an over-industrialized landscape \u2026 This woman is now in a post-procedure, photosynthetic transgenesis.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIn both Majeed's and Kosmalski\u2019s projects we are promised to look at a speculative future that expands our imagination to better\/more inclusive experience in which women bodies are healed, resituated, and un-objectified.\r\n\r\nThese projects are practical and poetic examples of the kind of present, future, past, and present that I want to imagine for the world we live in. A future for us and by us.\r\n\r\nMorehshin Allahyari"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=23382"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=23382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}