MELT presents: A Data Set of Screams
12th of December, 18 – 21h
at Glasmoog KHM Cologne
Heumarkt 14, 50667 Cologne
Together with medienwerk.nrw, the MELT collective invites you to COUNTING FEELINGS on December 12, 2024 in the GLASMOOG at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne:
“COUNTING FEELINGS is a research project that considers what data might mean for Trans* and autistic people. During the evening of December 12th, we invite you to join us in recording a data set that holds our voiced screams as resistance. Together we will scream into the data set – and stretch it into one that can hold our embodied and collective grief. We intend to do this as a trauma informed practice, and it is possible that feelings of grief, anger, and distrust emerge. Holding this space together, we aim to understand these expressed feelings as collective and powerful tools against structural oppressions. Let us tap into our collective scream-as-collective-power-against.” (MELT, 2024).
The event consists of an introduction by MELT, a vocal warm up to prepare our voices from Klara Hens, the recording itself with the support of Pink Noise Pollution, and a cool down and hang out after.
Disabled, Trans*, and neurodivergent folks and allies screaming about oppressions are warmly invited.
Please send a short message to mail@meltionary.com to sign up, please include any further access needs you may have.
Access Info will be here soon. This is a relaxed performance event, taking breaks and taking it slow are welcome.
MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr) study and experiment with shape-shifting processes as they meet technologies, sensory media and pedagogies in a warming world. Meltionary (derived from “dictionary”), is a growing collection of arts-design-research engagements that cooks up questions around material transformations alongside impulses from trans* feminism and disability justice. Melting as a kaleidoscope like phenomena touches upon multiple topics at once: climate change, the potential for political reformulations, change over time and material transformation. MELT shares work in the forms of videos, installations, websites, lectures, workshops and courses.
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