The Meal is Language

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An open discussion between Lola Olufemi, Yusser Salih and guests hosted by Promiscuous Care Study Group and Reading Room Rotterdam at TENT

TENT, Witte de Withstraat, Rotterdam, Netherlands

T﻿he Meal is LanguageYou are cordially invited to attend ____The_Meal_is_Language____ planned for ____SEPT_20____. It will be wonderful to have ____INSERT_YOUR_NAME____ among us! The_Promiscuous_Care_Study_Group_and Reading_Room_Rotterdam____ will host ___INSERT_YOUR_NAME__ and _Lola_Olufemi_ and _______and _________and__________and_________ along ____Yusser Salih’s_Sofreh_Daimeh____ at our lovely location____TENT____. We are looking for your presence to make it memorable! This is a gathering for the delusional, for the imaginative, the ones in this world but not of this world. Taking inspiration from Lola Olufemi’s work, we will open up a space for thinking otherwise. Otherwise as in, the political horizon awaits, as in the firm embrace of the unknowable, as in refusing the structures that confine while thinking of other ways of existing. Join us and sit down in conversation, as we ask ourselves and each other: What else is possible when we start to imagine another world? We will meet each other at the Sofreh Daimeh, a spatial poem by Yusser Salih; a metaphorical yet real space of hosting otherwise. Here, surrounding the plastic sofreh, we will host a collective conversation – a meal of words, if you will. Please come hungry with questions and full of wishes. We’re here to exchange strategies. Let’s cook up the future from our feelings, hopes and dreams.Lola Olufemi’s intervention is part of the seminar series Promiscuous Infrastructures which has been programmed by the Promiscuous Care Study Group in collaboration with Reading Room Rotterdam. The seminar series Promiscuous Infrastructures gathers a host of interdisciplinary and multifaceted conversations devoted to care infrastructure and pedagogies of care. Hosted by the Research Center Willem de Kooning Academy, Promiscuous Care Study Group gathers under the aegis of study. Using individual and collective practices as sites of inquiry, the study group cultivates research around care in the institution, practices of communal responsibility and accountability, intimate pedagogies, slow reading practices, hospitality and hosting, soil and contamination, counter-histories and collective grief. <a href="https://research.wdka.nl/index.php/news-activities/promiscuous-infrastructures-public-seminar-series/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">web</a>Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and CREAM/Stuart Hall Foundation researcher from London. Her work focuses on the uses of the feminist imagination and its relationship to cultural production, political demands and futurity. She is author of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise and Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. Yusser Salih is a decolonial feminist writer and designer who seeks to acknowledge and enable the radical potential of intimate relational spaces. Her practice revolves around intimate forms of publishing and the mobilization of alternative knowledge circulation patterns for writing that sits close at the skin. Her central concern: how can we affirm other ways of being/knowing?Reading Room Rotterdam is a nomadic roaming library traveling throughout the city in a cargo bike. The library functions as a gathering agent for communities to entangle with one another and for knowledge to be disseminated. Through public events and the library service, the RRR offers an exchange of mediums of knowledge, be it through shared dinners, workshops, gardens, or text. <a href="https://readingroomrotterdam.hotglue.me/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">web</a>

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