The ‘Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims’ seminar – 27 June 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024June 25, 2024Uncategorized

— A talk and discussion with Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva on ecology, ecocide and colonialism.

Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims is Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s ﬁrst exhibition in Belgium. In 2016 they started collaborating on Elemental Cinema, a series of films that take our world’s basic elements — earth, air, water and fire — as starting points. Through these films they question the dominant, Western, perspective on knowledge of both the human and the non-human. Their ethical-esthetical viewpoint focuses on systemic structures of colonialism, capitalism and imperial injustice. The exhibition at Kunsthal Extra City brings together several of their acclaimed film works such as Serpent Rain (2016) and 4 Waters — Deep Implicancy (2018). Central is their latest and most ambitious film to date, Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (2023).

On 27 June at 2:30 pm, CCQO and ARIA organize a talk and seminar with Neuman and Ferreira.
Everyone is very welcome!

Program

2:30 pm – Welcome by Joachim Naudts + visit exhibition
3:00 pm – Film screening Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims*
4:00 pm – Sensing Earth – Introduction by Pascal Gielen
4:10 pm – Reflections on the film and exhibition by Roel Arkesteijn
4:25 pm – Voices From The Drought** by Annelys de Vet
4:45 pm – Our Grandmother The Inlet film presentation & reflection by Kayah George
5:00 pm – Talk with Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva moderated by Katrien Reist
6:00 pm – Drinks

Location: Kunsthal Extra City, Provinciestraat 112, 2018 Antwerpen

For more information: mail to pascal.gielen@uantwerpen.be

Information on the exhibition can be found here: https://extracitykunsthal.be/en/exhibitions/ancestral-clouds-ancestral-claims

This event is a coproduction by Kunsthal Extra City, de Beursschouwburg, deSingel and CCQO/ARIA and is developed in parallel to the exhibition ‘Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims’ at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp (May 11 – September 15, 2024).

Register here