Inhale-Hold-Exhale

In between the screenings and afterwards, we will discuss with one another how queerness can be meaningful in thinking through many forms of ‘non-human’ or ‘more-than-human’ encounters, and the agency of sentient beings that are involved in these encounters. After the screenings, we will engage Erik in a conversation about queerness, and hear about his intentions, curatorial experiences, and points of reference for this series.

Inhale-Hold-Exhale is a night on queerness and sentient encounters, and as Erik suggests in his introduction: it is also about carving a space out of time, a pocket of pauses built for defense, reflection, and organizing action.

NB Soon we will host a workshop on queering in/through artistic research. Keep an eye on our website for the full programme.

False Wife, Jamie Crewe, 2022, 15:32
‘False Wife’ is a poppers training video, but its material is obscure. Its narrative is drawn from a variety of folk tales in which transformation occurs, and relationships happen.

A Mordida, The Bite, Pedro Neves Marques, 2019, 25:37
In Pedro Neves Marques’s atmospheric, sci-fi-tinged fiction set against the backdrop of a crisis-stricken São Paulo. Marques imagines an anxious present in which the promise of a better tomorrow relies on new conceptions of intimacy, identity, and reproduction

Trans-Port Me, Danielle Braithwaite-Shirley, 2019, 11:48
‘Trans-Port me’ is a film about Travelling/not-travelling while Trans. How other bodies stop us moving forwards. How moving forwards while your body Changes challenges a normal everyday commute.

After the Ice, the Deluge, Linda Stupart, 2020, 16:26
After the Ice, the Deluge’ figures relationships between the melting polar ice caps and other traumatised, abject, alien, and outsider bodies – queering the question of survival towards less boundaried ways of being in crisis.

Sentient Encounters is a collaboration between Sjoerd van Oevelen (Department head of Moving Image, AKI Enschede), Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko (initiator and lecturer AKI BIO MATTTERs), and supported by ArtEZ studium generale.