colectivo LASTESIS, Rita Segato & Franziska Schutzbach
Against cruelty and exhaustion
Feminist resistance in public space
Chile / Brazil / SwitzerlandThe protests of the Chilean collective LASTESIS have become exemplary for feminist manifestations all over the world. They make critical theories experienceable through the performance of chants and group choreographies in the public space. One of their formative inspirations is the Argentine-Brazilian anthropologist Rita Segato, a key thinker of decolonial feminism. For decades, she has been researching gender-based violence – in particular the increasing rate of rape and femicide in many Latin American countries. In addition to her academic work, Segato is involved in human rights initiatives and feminist groups. Her internationally influential texts are now available in German with «Wider die Grausamkeit» (2021) and «Femizid» (2022). In Zurich, Segato (digitally present) and colectivo LAS TESIS meet the Swiss gender researcher Franziska Schutzbach. In her most recent publication, «Die Erschöpfung der Frauen» (2021), she challenges the ubiquitous demands of emotional and sexual availability which cause women to perform invisible, unpaid and exhausting care work. The event connects the various perspectives on the resistance women put up to withstand the exploitation of their energy, their psyche and their bodies. It also addresses how the public space can be experienced as an unsafe and threatening environment as well as a place for visible collective empowerment and social resistance. (mr)
Simple words
The female group LASTESIS from Chile meets the researchers Franziska Schutzbach and Rita Segato. They talk about how women can defend themselves against exploitation.
Artistic direction and cast
Mit | colectivo LASTESIS, Rita Segato, Franziska Schutzbach |
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Moderation | Izabel Barros |
Foto | colectivo LASTESIS, zVg, Anne Morgenstern |
Süd
Lecture Series Talking on Water
Duration
1:30 hrs.
Language
Spanish and German, with respective simultaneous translation
An inclusive event
Sound inductively amplified