GREECE
FIERCE Action | OPEN CALL
Action Title: Musafir
Description
The Musafir Project starts with a 3day workshop hoping to find ways and tools for the absent archive to emerge. For what Toni Morisson coined as rememory. A process of retranscription and retranslation, a point of intersection between individual memory of personal experience and cultural or collective memory – some easy to remember and some forgotten and repressed. A visual artist will document the workshop and then produce a short film.
Target Audiences: Musafir workshop invites women, queers, immigrants, refugees, bodies that has crossed borders, both geographical and not.
Organizer
A collaborative project between Eirini Dafermou, feminist activist, archivist and gender studies researcher, Dina Kafterani, actress, director, a servant of street and popular theater, Iman Alidoosti Shahraki, actor, director, founder of the Boat Theatre and The Boat Collective an inclusive, non-nationalistic, anti-racist, queer, anti-sexist, community-led art collective which is housed in Athens, Greece.
Democratic Innovation
Rememory as practice and community storytelling, creating an archive of feelings and allowing space for it to breathe and disseminate, are all acts of resistance against the construction of an “innocent future” for Greece—an erased and repressed history of the disremembered and the unaccounted for. But no “innocent future” can foster social justice, and without justice there can be no democracy.