Cave Talks is een informele bijeenkomst rond het samen maken, schrijven en bedenken van tactieken, praktijken en instrumenten om emancipatie te bewerkstelligen. De ambitie is om een natuurlijke leegte te creëren voor collectieve uitwisseling en productie, waarin alle gesprekken plaatsvinden. Het format is ontstaan uit een dialoog met de groep en het tijdschrift Women Cave, dat gewijd is aan onderzoek rond ruimte en emancipatie.
Drie publieke workshops met de collectieven Bicoli, BLURBS - Generative Writing Club en Woman Cave, leiden tot de productie van een verzameling werken, teksten, snippers, alfabetten en quilts, die worden samengebracht in een standaard binder. Het uiteindelijke object wordt nadien geïntegreerd in het archief van CIVA. Je mag gelijk welk materiaal meebrengen, handgemaakt of geprint op A4-formaat, om toe te voegen aan de collectief samengestelde map. De inhoud wordt in groep besproken.
Cave Talks is onderdeel van de tentoonstelling Institution Building: Hoofdstuk 6 - Emancipation
PROGRAM
12:30 Gathering with coffee
13:00 Getting to know each other
14:00 Working Together
- Emancipation as reading, Bicoli Club
- Emancipation as writing, BLURBS - Generative Writing Club
- Emancipation as crafting, Woman Cave
16:30 Eating Together
17:30 Assembling the Cave Talks binder
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Bicoli is a feminist common self-directed library. This project is born from the desire to gather and share freely books about feminism, LGBT social movement, decolonial movement, political ecology…
Beyond a library, it is a space of exchange, talks, and reflection. Bicoli collective sees reading as a tool for emancipation. For the reading not to be only a solitary act, the collective sets up “arpentage” (collective readings) and a range of events such as workshops, exhibitions, projections,…
BLURBS – Generative Writing Club is a creative writing club, that uses literature in its various forms – fiction, poetry, essay, biography - to establish a platform that fosters creativity, expression, and exchange by combining diverse perspectives on writing. Grounded in the belief that multilingualism is a resource more than a hurdle to overcome The generative writing club aims to explore what it means to develop and implement inclusive and accessible writing systems related to race, gender and social backgrounds in an urban environment.
Woman Cave is a transdisciplinary collective founded by artist Léticia Chanliau, architect Chloé Macary-Carney and anthropologist Aleksandra Belova that explores the notion of gender in spaces. Inspired by the red tent, new age feminine circles of discussion, they created the Woman Cave: a safe space to hold discussions. In 2021, they released the Woman Journal Vol. 1, a publication of heterogeneous, non-normative content that reunites works by more than 20 contributors from around the world. In preparation of Volume 2 focused on the theme “Power dynamics / Cohabitation,” they explore the patchwork and its history as a vector for emancipation and propose a patchwork occupation of CIVA during the Cave Talk October 9th.
