APRIL 15 - 19 2024
TOWARDS RE-EMBODYING EQUALITY
A Series of Conversations with Jill Goldman 2024
April 15-19, 12-1 PM PST Daily
Live on Zoom
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APRIL 15 - 19 2024
Monday - FRiday
Daily Schedule
Monday, April 15th, 12-12:30pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Heide Goettner-Abendroth
Learning from Matriarchal Societies: Re-envisioning Equality, Economic Justice, and Peace
Tuesday, April 16th, 12-12:30pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with AnaLouise Keating
Spiritual Activism as a Catalyst for Social Change: A Conversation on Gloria Anzaldúa
Wednesday, April 17th, 12-12:30pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Barbara Alice Mann
Formalized Women-Power: The Social, Political, Economic, and Religious Roles of Iroquoian Women
Wednesday, April 17th, 12:30-1pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Catherine Coleman Flowers
Multidisciplinary Grassroots-Led Solutions to the Intersecting Challenges of Water and Sanitation Infrastructure, Public Health, and Economic Development.
Thursday, April 18th, 12-12:30pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Lauren Bon
“Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to Destroy”: Addressing Critical Social and Environmental Issues Through Art Intervention
Thursday, April 18th, 12:30-1pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Sumaya Awad
No One Is Free Until We’re All Free: Building Cross-Movement Coalitions to Achieve Collective Liberation
Friday, April 19th, 12-12:30pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Genevieve Vaughan and Letecia Layson
The Maternal Gift Economy: A Conversation on Capitalism, Peace, and a Sustainable Future
Friday, April 19th, 12:30-1pm
Jill Goldman in Conversation with Kristen Ghodsee
Everyday Utopias: What 2000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About A Good Life: A Conversation On a Radically Hopeful Vision for How to Build More Contented and Connected Societies
In conjunction with Jill Goldman’s past 2023 ARCANE Space exhibit, Disentanglement/Re-embodiment the artist presents a series of conversations on “re-embodying equality” with academics, artists, and activists whose work challenges organized domination systems, transforms deeply ingrained cultural and social norms and creates new systems that prioritize non-violence, gender equality, economic equality, environmental sustainability, and non-discrimination.
APRIL 10 - 15 2023
JILL GOLDMAN
DISENTANGLEMENT/RE-EMBODIMENT
installation including photography, video, performance conversation, and interactive media
In this new body of work—a response to two years of research into patriarchy—Goldman continues her ongoing exploration of transformative ritual and the gendered body.
Disentanglement/Re-embodiment is an ambitious attempt to disentangle the bonds of gender-based oppression and imagine a re-embodied self, unencumbered by patriarchal power and domination. In videos, photographs and performances Goldman interrogates the intangible ways that patriarchy creates fictions of the body and then insists that these fictions are natural, essentializing socially constructed traits as biologically and divinely determined, thereby simultaneously constructing and compelling gendered realities.
While it's impossible to know if we can ever fully experience our bodies outside of the linguistic and patriarchal social institutions that not only regulate them but define them, Disentanglement/Re-embodiment challenges the viewer to take seriously the possibility of a self independent of a system based on power relations. In performances that use ropes and women's hair, music and dance, Goldman makes visible the invisible structures of patriarchy and attempts to untangle them, extricating female bodies from their insidious and subjugating webs. Goldman, a long-time activist who advocates for the rights of those marginalized by patriarchy is skilled at pragmatic resistance, fighting injustice from a position inside our political and social systems. In her art and Tantric meditation practice, however, she explores a more radical form of resistance, a resistance that is founded on an expansive consciousness that demolishes the oppressive structures the political right is so hellbent on solidifying.
The Sanskrit word Tantra derives from the verbal root tan, meaning to weave, and while Goldman attempts to unravel one fabric, she weaves another one, represented visually in videos and photographs printed on muslin in which the boundaries between the self and the world blur. From its origins in 6th century India, Tantric initiation has always been open to all genders and all social classes. With its revolutionary shapeshifting goddesses and panpsychism Tantra dissolves borders and erases binaries. By embracing this profoundly non-dualist consciousness, Goldman imagines a dematerialized liquid reality, an alchemical transformation that occurs in the world, via the body, revealing the sacred in the profane. Because this state of "oneness" entails a radical solidarity with every human, indeed, with every particle in the universe, the boundaries that separate the terrestrial from the numinous, the self from other, subject from object, collapse, and all hierarchies are razed. Patriarchy is rendered not only absurd but cosmically powerless.
-Asti Hustvedt
APRIL 10 - 15 2023
Schedule for the Daily conversations on Disentangling Patriarchy 2023
Monday, April 10th 12pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Tanya Selvaratnam. Tanya is an activist, producer, and writer of the best-selling book Assume Nothing, which bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered while in a relationship with former NY State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. In her reporting, she integrates personal experience with broader social analysis to carefully examine the domestic violence crisis.
Tuesday, April 11th 12pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Ruchira Gupta. Ruchira is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, activist, and founder of Apne Aap, an organization that works for women's rights and the eradication of sex trafficking. She is the winner of the Clinton Global Citizen Award.
Wednesday, April 12th 12pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Amy Ziering. Amy is a two-time Emmy Award–winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker best known for The Hunting Ground, Invisible War, and Allen v Farrow. Her work shines a spotlight on the institutional injustices that women and girls face as well as the challenges ingrained in our culture. She harnesses the power of media to advance gender equality.
Thursday, April 13th 12pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Nina Menkes. Nina is considered a cinematic feminist pioneer and one of America’s foremost independent filmmakers. Her newest documentary Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power investigates how sexist shot design contributes to a pervasive environment of sexual harassment and assault, as well as employment discrimination against women. Menkes has shown widely in major international film festivals including multiple premieres at Sundance, the Berlinale, Cannes, La Cinematheque Francaise, Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA, and LACMA. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Friday, April 14th 12pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Yasmeen Hassan. Yasmeen is a Pakistani attorney and international women's rights activist. She was the Global Executive Director of Equality Now from 2011 - 2022. Previously, she was with the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women where she worked on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Secretary-General’s study on violence against women. She has served on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Advisory Board on Child Marriage, and provided expert guidance to the U.N. Trust to End Violence Against Women.
Saturday, April 15th 12pm and 1 pm
Jill Goldman in conversation with Letecia Layson. Letecia is a Filipina, Feminist, Futurist and Priestess. Letecia is one of the founding Mothers of the Center for Babaylan Studies, and a member of International Feminists for Gift Economy and the Modern Matriarchal Studies Network. Letecia’s maternal Ancestors are Wary from Tacloban
Closing Conversations and at 1pm Live at ARCANE Space
ARCANE Space and Metabolic Studio invite you to join in conversation with visiting artist Betsy Damon for the closing of Jill Goldman’s exhibition DISENTANGLEMENT/RE-EMBODIMENT
