SSFC2: The Art Of Fallism - A University Of Colonial Thinking, 2019

Arrangør: The Supplementary School Film Club
Dato: Torsdag 23. mai
Tid: 16:00 - 19:30 (film starts 16:30)
Billetter: Gratis!
Rom: Bergen Kjøtt Bar (1. etasje)

Mer info:
Welcome to the fifth evening of The Supplementary School Film Club with a film chosen by artist, curator and daglig leder of Bergen Kjøtt, Eva Rowson.

Join us for a slightly earlier gathering this week, in collaboration with Big Teeth: the MA1 Takeover at Bergen Kjøtt by students of the Master of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design (KMD) of the University of Bergen. After the film club, the bar stays open til 21:30 when we will point you in the direction of Toril Johannessen’s Festspill exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall opening at kl 22:00!

We are in a moment of burning injustice and genocide which ignites direct action across the world against educational institutions (and their representation of histories of oppression, colonialism and patriarchy). This film documents not only the both the power of student-led and grass-roots activism - but also the internal contradictions not often associated with collective activism: the internal hierarchies, conflicts and blind spots within the activist movement itself.

The Art of Fallism is an artistic documentary following activists from the #feesmustfall movement in South Africa. The #rhodesmustfall protest movement in spring 2015 focused on the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a English colonist who is responsible for the beginnings of racial segregation policies in South Africa, and opened up a global uprising to decolonise education. By October 2015, this had grown into a movement for free education and the end of all oppressive structures within education. ”This, in turn, evolved into a broad-based, massive protest movement and new political art practices operating under the banner “Fallism” to promote critical thinking about the decolonisation of society.

The movement was eventually taken over by male activists, while the gays, transpersons and women who had been key figures ever since its inception refused to allow the movement to continue without them. The Fallists not only generated national ripple effects; they also helped instigate an international movement focussed on the writing of history and decolonisation. At the same time, the film depicts the conflicts inherent in such a process.”*

Eva Rowson is an artist, curator and Managing Director of Bergen Kjøtt, a production house, creative workplace and cultural venue in Bergen, Norway. Her curatorial work is organised around hosting, collaboration and organisational practices – focusing on how the different types of work involved are valued, and with what consequences. This research is at the core of projects including the curatorial programme “Who’s doing the washing up?”, Bergen Kunsthall (Norway) and Lighthouse (UK), 2018-19 and ‘Como imaginar una musea?’, a Catalan-Spanish-English conjuring of a feminist cultural institution (2018-19).

The Supplementary School Film Club is an intersectional film club hosted by artist, Amber Ablett where we prioritise the stories, needs and comfort of those marginalised by our society. We watch films together to look at the intersections of oppressive structures and how different communities tackle and dismantle them.

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*https://frittord.no/en/news/the-art-of-fallism-decolonisation-in-a-norwegian-context