SESSION is a project modelling itself after an incubator that invites cultural practitioners to engage with questions that emerge out of a given exhibition.
Artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri invites audiences to collectively unpack and collaboratively explore questions around borders, nationalism, identity, and state-based violence. Prompted by a passage from Harsha Walia’s book Border & Rule and one of Sanzgiri’s own short films, this wide-ranging and informal conversation will look at how the moving image might propose new imaginaries against the grip of ethno-nationalist consolidations of identity-based power. What possibilities does art open up in forming cross-continental solidarity in the face of far-right regimes? How might artists and cultural producers contribute to re/framing these questions towards liberatory horizons through, what activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls, “co-constitutive interdependencies”?