Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Screening, Performance
17 July 2022
9 – 11:30 am
Cinema Middelburg (Map)
Matinee with poetry, a spoken word performance, a lecture and a film screening of Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992
Curators: Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Thiago de Paula Souza
On 17 July 2022, Vleeshal and its nomadic curators Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza organised a matinee with poems, a spoken word performance, a lecture and a film screening.
It was a special gathering, focusing on Lorde's thoughts. The beautiful documentary Audre Lorde - The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992 (79 mins) by director-producer Dagmar Schultz was screened and introduced by Rosa Masilela and De Paula Souza.
As an introduction to the documentary, Philosopher Joyce Pijnenburg spoke on the history of feminism in relation to Lorde and writer Anna de Bruyckere, former city poet of Middelburg, presented her new spoken word performance in the sun.
Series
In 2015 Vleeshal kicked of its Nomadic Program, as an extension of its existing exhibition program in Middelburg. In its Nomadic Program Vleeshal goes on tour, organising exhibitions and other events in collaboration with venues in the Netherlands and abroad, such as Art Rotterdam, Amsterdam Art Weekend, the Spring Performance Festival, WIELS Art Book Fair, Brussels and Poppositions, Brussels.
How do we learn to love each other while we are embattled on so many fronts? is a series developed by Vleeshal's nomadic curators for 2022-2023 Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza.
The title for this series is borrowed from Audre Lorde, writer and activist, who penned this question in 1984 in a journal entry written while she was living in Berlin, during which time she asked a litany of incisive existential questions about finding meaning in the face of uncertainty, despair, and psychic and physical vulnerability. Nomaduma and Thiago articulate their nomadic program of 2022-2023 around this question. The devotion of Audre Lorde to create international feminist political networks of camaraderie reflects the core concerns of their program. Nomaduma and Thiago similarly ask questions of how does one teach or share, how does one survive, how does one empower others, how does one fight, how does one repair, how does one nourish, as the core foundations of their collaborative curatorial practice.