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Natasha Ginwala is an independent curator, researcher, and writer.
Laughter is a sense-making device in the darkest phases of restraint, and also a means of self-extension. Bodies in pain and souls in fury are fundamentally transformed in sonorous gradations of mirth. “Isn’t laughter the first form of liberation from a secular oppression?” asked Luce Irigaray. Rational terror is pulverized by the Medusa’s laugh—to draw from Cixous’s formulation—an entrapped body given release in her reverberation.
Book launch: Cooking Sections, The Empire Remains Shop
With Cooking Sections, Coco Fusco, and Natasha Ginwala
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
Corruption: Everybody Knows…
“Supercommunity Live: The Climatic Unconscious” in Saskatoon
Corruption is the disappeared body coming back to life. Its flesh seizes the veins of the post-revolutionary state, pumping, circulating, and blocking in a synchronized manner while unleashing shape-shifting forms as its residue. This ultimate stench of capital thrives in passing from body to body, as though an uncontainable viral flu.
Quasi-Events: Building and Crumbling Worlds