TiM Double-Bill: Anika Marschall & Jaswina Elahi

As the first Transmission in Motion event of the 2024/25 academic year will be a special seminar Double-Bill with Anika Marschall and Jaswina Elahi who will each present their rescheduled sessions from the previous 2023/24 series ‘Matters of Concern.’

 “Researching performance in the wake: Commitment to a healing labour” – Anika Marschall (UU)

Anika Marschall’s seminar offers an associative, humble dialogue with Christina Sharpe’s seminal work “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” and performances which perform ‘wake work,’ in particular the durational performances “We’re Magic We’re Real #3 (These Walls)” by Jeannette Ehlers (2022) and “Anadyomene” by Phyllis Akinyi (2022) in the specific context of postcolonial Denmark. In what ways do these performances resist, rupture and disrupt the everyday imminence of Black death in Northern Europe? How do these performances make us imagine ways of knowing that contend with the continuing legacies of colonialism and racist border violence?

Some propositions (or calls to action): Performances which perform wake work offer communal rituals to mourn absent bodies, the drownings in and ongoing crossings of the Mediterranean Sea. Performances which perform wake work defy the violence against forced migrants on the move all over the African continent and also on the move to Germany, Greece, Denmark etc. Performances which perform wake work testify to everyday kin work against the imminence of Black death and attend to living in the aftermath of slavery. Performances which perform wake work celebrate diasporan life insisted from death. Performances which perform wake work make us differently conscious, they exceed the knowledges of study, the modes and methods of scientific research in academia.

>> To read more about this seminar and Anika’s research go to the original seminar page >>

 “Change by Participatory Action Research: Chances and Challenges” – Jaswina Elahi (UU)

Jaswina Elahi’s seminar will orient Participatory Action Research, an approach that was introduced in 1944 by Kurt Lewin which seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, linked together by critical reflection. One of the primary goals of PAR is to contribute to social change by addressing real issues that affect the community involved in the research. Jaswina Elahi applies this approach to contemporary societal issues that are often also politically charged, such as poverty and multiculturalism in society. Using some concrete examples from her work, in this presentation she will show where some of the greatest opportunities and challenges lie when working through PAR as a means to bring about change in contemporary contexts. This session will be interactive, so please bring along your questions!

>> Find out more about this seminar and Jaswina’s research on the original seminar page >>

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