Waiting in a platinum city
A film by Joseph Mujere
Overview – Land Labour Life
This research cluster is in the process of being shaped and developed. It will bring together different strands of the current, ongoing and future research of different members of the SWOP community whose work focuses on different aspects of wage labour and its place in the development and history of capitalism; poverty; unemployment; the changing nature […]
SOMA Summer | Obrera Centro
The closing of the Conversations at a Distance series, with Marcos Castro and Mauro Giaconi, directors of the Obrera Centro project, in dialogue with Helena Chávez Mac Gregor.
SOMA Summer | Prishani Naidoo
‘Apartheid’ is often held up in discussions about social justice – both as marker of the worst kinds of atrocities perpetuated against humanity, and as symbol of the greatness of struggles against them.
SOMA Summer | Yásnaya Elena Aguilar
One of the fundamental elements of the current nation states is the judicial system and the construction of social justice understood within a legal framework. The functioning of a notion of social justice within this framework has limits and scope. How would it be possible to build a world where different notions of justice coexist?
SOMA Summer | Ursula Biemann
The video projects of Ursula Biemann generally take a systemic approach to terrestrial conditions by connecting the micropolitics on the ground with a theoretical and planetary macro level.
SOMA Summer | Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine tackles the political position of their work, its position towards objectification and seduction, its feminist nature. Also they will develop their latest research about human strike as a practice of freedom and a self-sustaining practice.
SOMA Summer | Simon Gush, Prishani Naidoo & Helena Chávez MacGregor
For many, social justice cannot be attained or imagined without ensuring the security of a regular wage for all. In this conversation, the idea of work is examined historically and critically through questions related to the ways in which wage labour has come to function.
SOMA Summer | Rose Partiff
‘Covid as Multiplane: Liberty, History and the Pandemic’
SOMA Summer | Marcelo Expósito
What relation exists between Rauschenberg erasing De Kooning’s drawing in 1953 and the demolition of colonial statues in the present day by the global anti-racist movement? In what way are we initiating a new dematerialisation of art.