Talks & Events

dissident 02 Launch

VANCOUVER BLACK LIBRARY, I DREAM LIBRARY AND LIBRARY OF INFINITES
June 24, 2023

June 24, 2023
1-5pm 
1:30pm Remarks with writers present 
Light refreshments and sandwiches will be provided

Join us for an in person launch of dissident 02; Toward an Ethic of Collection & Dissemination with contributing text from Vancouver Black Library, I Dream Library and Library of Infinities. 

Participating writers for dissident 02 are Abena Somiah, Feven Tesfay, Aisha Kiani and Shaya Ishaq.

dissident is a quarterly art journal devoted to exploring community driven social practices. Writing against and alongside limiting institutional historical orientation, the series positions restorative literature, intimate recollection, transdisciplinary dialogue, and the production of knowledge and pedagogical practices through active engagements with progressive social movements central to the pursuit of complex curatorial engagement.
dissident investigates human-centric, intersectional, and decolonial frameworks, bridging autonomous authorship or anecdotal, self-reflective writing with activism, political agitation, and obscure cultural practice. Documenting creative participatory re-shaping, redirection, resistance, refusal, and care, dissident invites guest writers to share research at various stages of progress- an exercise in disrupting evaluation and presentation and a gesture towards critical experimentation, innovation, and generative idea sharing.