DIASPORA ACTIVISM
GENDER DISOBEDIENCE

A multiphase, mobile, and evolving video archive created by 56 artists.

Disobedience Archive is a multiphase, mobile, and evolving video archive that concentrates on the relationship between artistic practices and political action. Presented fifteen times in different countries, Disobedience Archive transforms each time without ever assuming a final configuration. Whether in the form of a parliament, a school, or a community garden, the project turns the archive, typically static and taxonomic, into a dynamic and generative device. For the Biennale Arte, Disobedience Archive embodies The Zoetrope – the pre-filmic machine that animated images. It investigates the representation of movement, giving rise to a centrifugal space. On this occasion it presents two new macrosections including forty films: Diaspora Activism deals with transnational migration processes in the context of hegemonic neoliberalism, as a struggle that drives new ways of inhabiting the world and questions the very meaning of citizenship. Gender Disobedience is, in continuity with the previous section, dedicated to nomadic subjectivities, conceived as a rupture of heterosexual binarism. This section brings together the alliances between activism that critiques capitalism and the LGBTQ+ movements that have emerged globally. Disobedience Archive (The Zoetrope) is a project by Marco Scotini developed with Arnold Braho as project assistant, Andris Brinkmanis as coordinator, Lilia Di Bella and Chiara Figone of Archive Appendix for the graphic concept. Artist texts written by NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti – MA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies students from Milan and Rome.

1. Želimir Žilnik
Inventur – Metzstraße 11, 1975
9', 16mm color film, transferred to video, sound
2. Pınar Öğrenci
Inventory 2021, 2021
16’ HD Color/sound
3. Raphaël Grisey e Bouba Touré
Xaraasi Xanne – Crossing Voices, 2022
122’19’ Film, Color/sound
4. mixrice
21st Century Light of the Factory, 2016
11’35’’ Color/sound
5. Daniela Ortiz
The Brightness of Greedy Europe, 2022
28’ Color/sound
6. Khaled Jarrar
Notes on Displacement, 2022
74’, DCP Color/sound
7. Anand Patwardhan
Bombay, Our City (Hamara Sahar), 1985
75’ 16mm, Color/sound
8. Hito Steyerl
Universal Embassy, 2004
4’10’’ Single channel video, 16:9 DV on DVD, color, sound
9. Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg
The Right of Passage, 2013
19’, video Color/sound
10. Maria Kourkouta e Niki Giannari
Spectres are haunting Europe, 2016
99’00’’ video HD e 16mm Color/b&w/sound
11. Sim Chi Yin
Requiem (Internationale, Goodbye Malaya) (2017)
from One Day We’ll Understand, 2015
6’08’’ Color/sound, 16:9
12. Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett
B.A.T.A.M. (Bila Anda Tiba Anda Menyesal) - When You Arrive You'll Regret, 2020
43’01’’ Color/sound
13. Ursula Biemann
Sahara Chronicle, 2006-2009
6 videos from an anthology of 12, 33’14’’ Color/sound
14. Cinéastes pour les sans-papiers
Nous, sans papiers de France…, 1997
3’, 16mm Color/sound
15. Black Audio Film Collective
Handsworth Songs, 1986
61’00’’ 16mm, Color/sound
16. LIMINAL & Border Forensics
Asymmetric Visions, 2023
10’54’’ Color/sound
17. Nguyễn Trinh Thi
Everyday’s the Seventies, 2018
15’19’’ Color/sound
18. Angela Melitopoulos
Passing Drama, 1999
66’14’’, Betacam SP Color/sound
19. Bani Khoshnoudi
Transit(s): Our Traces, Our Ruin, 2016
40’12’’ Color/sound
20. Seba Calfuqueo
Nunca serás un weye. You will never be a Weye, 2015
4’46’’ Color/sound
21. Carlos Motta
Corpo Fechado - The Devil's Work, 2018
24’33’’ Color/sound
22. Maria Galindo e Mujeres Creando
Revoluciòn Puta, 2023
51’40’’ Color/sound
23. Pedro Lemebel
Desnudo bajando la escalera , 2014
2’10’’ Color/sound
Pisagua, 2006
3’29’’ Color/sound
24. Critical Art Ensemble
Gender-Crash, 1993
5’ Color/sound
25. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
Queen’s Palace, 2023
4’46’’ Color/sound
26. James Wentzy
Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP, 2002
75’21’’ Color/sound
27. Sara Jordenö
Kiki, 2016
93’48’’ Color/sound
28. Zanele Muholi
Difficult Love, 2010
47’35’’ Color/sound [a/r]
29. Simone Cangelosi
Una nobile rivoluzione: Ritratto di Marcella Di Folco, 2014
83’07’’ Color/sound
30. Carole Roussopoulos
Le F.H.A.R (Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire), 1971
6’, (extract) Black and white, 1–inch video tape, excerpt
31. Sweatmother
Protest and Demo Documentation in London, 2019-2023
Transmissions Protest: Gender Inclusive Fashion, 2019
3’15’’ Video, edited Color/sound
Transmissions Protest: Witness the Real Angels (Anti-Victoria Secret Demo), 2019
1’17’’ Video, edited Color/sound
Pissed Off Trannies: Zap 1, 2022
2’24’’ Video, edited Color/sound
Pissed Off Trannies: Stigmata, 2022
21’41’’ Video, edited Color/sound
Pissed Off Trannies: Zap 2, 2023
4’09’’ Video, edited Color/soundProtest and Demo
32. Güliz Sağlam
8 Mart 2018 - Istanbul, 2018
6’ Color/sound
33. Marcelo Expósito with Nuria Vila
Tactical Frivolity + Rhythms of Resistance, 2007
39’ Color/sound
34. Queerocracy
A New Discovery: Queer Immigration in Perspective, 2011
9’50’’ Color/sound
35. Thunska Pansittivorakul
Damnatio Memoriae, 2023
108’11’’ Color/sound
36. Barbara Hammer
History of the World According to a Lesbian, 1988
16’ 24’’ SD video, color, sound, 16mm, ed. 1/7 + 2AP
37. Jota Mombaça
The Birth of Urana REMIX, 2020
21’17’’ Color/sound
38. Tejal Shah
Between the Waves, 2012
26’14’’ Color/sound
39. Pilot TV Collective
A Call and An Offering: Pilot TV, 2006
Documentary by Na Mira and Latham Zearfoss
24’03’’ Color/sound

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