curated spaces
reconference is as much about the form as about the content, and the new technologies, evocative installations, and creative performances are an essential part of the experience, so these should be part of the agenda which you create for yourself. While there are standalone performances and exhibits, one of the areas in which all of these different formats combine are inside the experiential curated spaces.
Curated spaces are immersive experiences around specific themes including technology, sex work, consent and pleasure and danger, as well as disability. These spaces have been co-created with the constituencies to feature films, posters, photos and artifacts, speakers and performers to challenge entrenched stereotypes, combat misinformation, and share stories of lived realities in the voices of the people living them. For a full experience, guided visits are available during morning and afternoon sessions. In the evenings, the spaces will remain open for self-guided walk throughs.
Curated spaces are immersive experiences around specific themes including technology, sex work, consent and pleasure and danger, as well as disability. These spaces have been co-created with the constituencies to feature films, posters, photos and artifacts, speakers and performers to challenge entrenched stereotypes, combat misinformation, and share stories of lived realities in the voices of the people living them. For a full experience, guided visits are available during morning and afternoon sessions. In the evenings, the spaces will remain open for self-guided walk throughs.
- Consent and Pleasure & Danger
- Disability
- Sex Work
- Technology
This space is titled Galaxies of Desires and brings together the two conference themes – consent and pleasure and danger. These form an integral part of human sexuality. Art and activism come together in this space to interrogate why pleasure has seldom been included in feminist movements, reflect if pleasures can be dangerous and dangers can be pleasurable and celebrate transgressions. It also explores the spectrum of consent. The space is imagined as galaxies – as feminist limitless possibilities of how we understand, experience and express consent, pleasure and danger.
Consent
rethink critical questions about consent, recognizing the need to ensure that encounters are based on mutual and enthusiastic desire and not just permission.
reimagine how consent plays out for different bodies, in different situations and in different people’s lives.
reboot how ideas of consent can be used to expand an intersectional feminist agenda.
Pleasure and Danger
rethink pleasure (seen through the lens of sexuality), danger (as a right to take risks to seek pleasure) and who is excluded when we talk about both.
reimagine social norms and popular culture that push for contradictory definitions of pleasure and danger, and place them in juxtaposition.
reboot the idea of pleasure and danger as being a binary, and redefine them through the lenses of agency and autonomy.
Consent
rethink critical questions about consent, recognizing the need to ensure that encounters are based on mutual and enthusiastic desire and not just permission.
reimagine how consent plays out for different bodies, in different situations and in different people’s lives.
reboot how ideas of consent can be used to expand an intersectional feminist agenda.
Pleasure and Danger
rethink pleasure (seen through the lens of sexuality), danger (as a right to take risks to seek pleasure) and who is excluded when we talk about both.
reimagine social norms and popular culture that push for contradictory definitions of pleasure and danger, and place them in juxtaposition.
reboot the idea of pleasure and danger as being a binary, and redefine them through the lenses of agency and autonomy.
| Day 1 | April 10, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Speakers and abridged guided visit |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers and guided visit |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open for self-guided walk throughs |
| Day 2 | April 11, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Speakers and abridged guided visit |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers and guided visit |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open for self-guided walk throughs |
| Day 3 | April 12, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Abridged guided visit |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers and guided visit |
The curated space on disability, titled Questioning Dis/Ability, provides a live and immersive experience using art, performance, story telling and films on issues of disability and sexuality and representation of women with disabilities. The core vision guiding the design of the space has been to challenge the prevailing and stigmatizing narratives that label disabled bodies as non-normative, asexual, clumsy. The space will also be a site for cross-movement political engagement and alliance-building.
rethink issues of disability and sexuality by unpacking models that have served as defining approaches to disability.
reimagine, through art and performance, women with disabilities as artists and build a powerful counter-narrative to models that label disabled bodies as non-normative, asexual, clumsy.
reboot conversations on some of the most profound fault lines that have so far limited cross-movement alliance building on the issue of disability and abortion.
rethink issues of disability and sexuality by unpacking models that have served as defining approaches to disability.
reimagine, through art and performance, women with disabilities as artists and build a powerful counter-narrative to models that label disabled bodies as non-normative, asexual, clumsy.
reboot conversations on some of the most profound fault lines that have so far limited cross-movement alliance building on the issue of disability and abortion.
| Day 1 | April 10, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | CANCELED |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Models of Disability – An Introduction Legal Capacity, stigma and discrimination Story Telling Translated in French and Spanish |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open Mic Space |
| Day 2 | April 11, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Models of Disability – An Introduction: Speaker and Open Q&A |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Models of Disability – An Introduction Legal Capacity, stigma and discrimination Story Telling Translated in Arabic and Hindi |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Performance |
| Day 3 | April 12, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Abridged visit |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Models of Disability – An Introduction The Resonance of the contrast - a one-actor performance on medicalization Story Telling Cross-Movement Conversation: Abortion/Prenatal Testing/Disability and Principles Translated in Nepali |
Red Light. Go! a curated space where sex workers’ organizing takes center stage, and sex workers tell the stories of their own lives, choosing how to represent themselves and their work.
Each day the space features a new conversation that explores how sex work intersects with gender, race, class, capitalism, disability and technology. Join us, as we:
rethink the binary between feminism and sex work, reconsidering how women’s rights movements relate to sex work and sex workers, and how sex workers relate to feminism.
reimagine as feminists (sex workers and non-sex workers) how we talk about sex work, and make the case for sex workers’ rights and for decriminalization.
reboot feminist organizations and movements to embrace sex workers’ rights and the full decriminalization of sex work – as a feminist issue.
Each day the space features a new conversation that explores how sex work intersects with gender, race, class, capitalism, disability and technology. Join us, as we:
rethink the binary between feminism and sex work, reconsidering how women’s rights movements relate to sex work and sex workers, and how sex workers relate to feminism.
reimagine as feminists (sex workers and non-sex workers) how we talk about sex work, and make the case for sex workers’ rights and for decriminalization.
reboot feminist organizations and movements to embrace sex workers’ rights and the full decriminalization of sex work – as a feminist issue.
| Day 1 | April 10, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Abridged Walk |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers on the topics of: -Sex Work as Work - It is Not Trafficking and Does Not Call for Rescue -Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements Translated into Hindi and Nepali |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open for self-guided walk through |
| Day 2 | April 11, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Abridged Walk |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers on the topics of: -Complicating the Binaries of Choice and Coercion -Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements Translated into Bangla |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open for self-guided walk through |
| Day 3 | April 12, 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Abridged Walk |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Speakers on the topics of: -Sex workers Controlling the Narrative -Let’s Chat! About Us and Our Movements Translated into Arabic and Spanish |
Welcome to our lives in the digital age: online onground physical digital. Phygital...or tangled like wool - the title of this curated space on technology. Through apps, art, talks, demos, films, quizzes and storytelling in this curated space, we will:
rethink the role and significance of technology on our lives, and collapse binary understandings of the online and the onground.
reimagine the digital as a powerful political space of opportunities and threats, which is used both to surveil, oppress and exclude, and also as a space of struggle, resistance, and organizing.
reboot our activism away from the false binary of physical only versus digital only, and think about how they are interwoven.
Walk with us. Talk to us. Quiz with us!
rethink the role and significance of technology on our lives, and collapse binary understandings of the online and the onground.
reimagine the digital as a powerful political space of opportunities and threats, which is used both to surveil, oppress and exclude, and also as a space of struggle, resistance, and organizing.
reboot our activism away from the false binary of physical only versus digital only, and think about how they are interwoven.
Walk with us. Talk to us. Quiz with us!
| Day 1 | 10 April 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12 pm - 1:15 pm | Digital Faultlines (panel) Digital world of impunity Dataveillance and reproductive rights Butterflies and leeches Addressing inherent biases in artificial intelligence |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Digital Art & Apps (talk/workshop) Backsies, the sexting app Making crowdsourced art online Podcasting on the edge |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open walk through |
| Day 2 | 11 April 2019 |
|---|---|
| 12 pm - 1:15 pm | Digital Dosts (interactive chat) Missing and invisible Lost pleasures of technology |
| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Digital Demos MR Ludu, an Android abortion app Sultana’s Reality: Afrah Shafiq |
| 7:30 pm - 9 pm | Open walk through |
| Day 3 | 12 April 2019 |
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| 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Digital Stories (talk, workshop) Skin Stories Love in the time of Google |