Events
Portrait of Natasha Ginwala, © Victoria Tomaschko
Address
Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
Accessibility
Montparnasse – Bienvenüe metro station, Exit 2, Lines 4, 6, 12 and 13
Villa Vassilieff is accessible to visitors using wheeled devices or who have mobility difficulties thanks to special facilities (access ramp, adapted toilets, and a lift).
In addition, several reserved parking spaces are available close to the Villa Vassilieff:
• in front of 4 rue d’Alençon, 75015 Paris
• in front of 7 rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris
• in front of 23 rue de l’Arrivée, 75015 Paris
Consult the map of adapted parking spaces in Paris here.
Natasha Ginwala, artistic director of Colomboscope, will appear at the Villa Vassilieff to discuss forest systems and artistic processes that engage with questions of agronomy, medicinal fauna, environmental custodianship and the extreme pressures of extraction, themes addressed in the latest edition of the festival. The Forest is proposed as a multisensory school in which to unlearn the curriculums of plunder and wreckage.
The event will feature a screening of the performance Black Honey Manifesto or I am not a Foreigner in the Forest (2023) by Myriam Mihindou, filmed at Villa Vassilieff by Ibro Hasanović, photographed by Tawfiq Sediqi.
It will be moderated by the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care.
Practical information
Sunday, June 16, 2024, 5 pm
Free entry
The conversation will be held in English.
In the framework of “Care as Methodology”
Residency of the Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care at AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions
Natasha Ginwala (b. 1985, Ahmedabad, IN) is a curator, researcher and writer, co-curator of Sharjah Biennial 16, and artistic director of Colomboscope, Sri Lanka since 2019. She recently concluded her role as associate Curator at Large at Gropius Bau, Berlin (2018 – 2024). She was also artistic director of the 13th Gwangju Biennale with Defne Ayas (2021). N. Ginwala moved to Berlin in 2013 to join the artistic team of the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Further, she has been part of curatorial teams of Contour Biennale 8, documenta 14 (2017), Taipei Biennale (2012) and curated several international exhibitions including at e-flux, Sharjah Art Foundation, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, ifa Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, L’ appartement 22, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, MCA Chicago, 56th Venice Biennale, SAVVY Contemporary and Zeitz MOCAA. From 2013–15, in collaboration with Vivian Ziherl, she led the multi-part exhibition and research project Landings presented at partner organisations across Europe. N. Ginwala is a widely published author with a focus on contemporary art, visual culture, and social justice.
The Initiative for Practices and Visions of Radical Care, started in 2020 in the Greater Paris region, is a diverse group of practitioners of arts, crafts, philosophies, healing and therapy coming from vastly spread geographies. Neither a classical collective nor a rigid structure, the Initiative is researching and reinventing modes of sustainable institutionalism. Based on friendships as well as professional bonds, it functions as an ecosystem and fosters interdependence and solidarity beyond identity. The focus on care is enacted as a flow of activities that nurture individuals and sustain social, environmental and political bonds, focusing as much on processes and methods as on outcomes. Through fluid artistic and curatorial ventures, the Initiative embraces the languages, energies, histories, landscapes, bodies, and materials that reflect a non-extractive and sensitive relationship to the human and non-human alike.
