No dia 3 de junho, o workshop Figuring Rebellion and the Technical ends of Blackness terá lugar no Auditório Sedas Nunes do ICS-ULisboa e online, a partir das 18h. O evento é organizado pelo Urban Transitions Hub, no âmbito da Summer School Inhabiting the surrounds, e contará com os oradores Ana Rita Alves (Universidade Lusófona) e AbdouMaliq Simone.

This is a workshop about method. Specifically black method. If there is any specificity to blackness. Or at least where blackness is an incomparable specificity.
Perhaps blackness and method are both stretched beyond their conventional apprehensions. For what is not method and what is not blackness (but a “not”).
How to work with something untranslatable that endures as a force that must be contained within carceral form (anti-blackness) but which also exceeds any figuring of incarceration. An indeterminant, unsettling force that extends without discernible ontology.
At the same time, method is positioned somewhere, starts from somewhere, and the idea is not to consolidate a regimen, apparatus but to venture into what will inevitably remain unknown, and how to operate in such space(lessness). The convoluted realities of black living in Portugal, of urban life made in the interstices and the parallelisms of public spaces, and across multiple diasporas challenge where and how “we” look at the apparent foreclosures and apertures of urban dispositions — a heterogeneous vernacular of gestures, conveyances, collaborations, inventions that make up a techno-poetic repertoire of rebellion, less a matter of being “against” and more about “spreading out.”