Video installation and live performance by @fadescha / Documenta kassel
“They act so fast and repeatedly, that they don’t allow you to mourn, cause if you did you’ll know what has been really lost”.
Video /
Vidisha-Fadescha
Perfomance/
Kinkinella, Shaunak Mahbubani and Fadescha
Director of Choreography/
Caitlin Adams
On-site Production/
Aom
The land and people of Tepoztlán, México.
Sound Design /
Corazón de Robota
Second Camera /
Maria Jorge Medina
Director of Photography, First Camera /
Ada Navarro
Video Editor /
Vangjush Vellahu
Archival visuals documenting the continued resistance in Kashmir, Black Lives Matter Movement and Savitri Bai with Fatima Sheikh.
They act so fast and repeatedly, that they don’t allow you to mourn, cause if you did you’ll know what has been really lost.” Radical figures in proximity perform the nurturance of queer kinships and care as a pivotal form of labour. The series ‘Qworkaholics Anonymous’, initiated by Vidisha-Fadescha, reimagines the format of de-addiction programs “Alcoholics Anonyomus” to create space for ‘doing nothing’, asserting that trans* and other radical figures do important work in their very acts of survival. In 2022, Fadescha invited Kinkinella and Shaunak Mahbubani for Meeting II of the series to share space and time, to explore various body movements and gestures, recreating some archival images, while also reflecting embodied multi-generational histories of trauma. A continued interest in protest photographs, Vidisha is interested to recreate an experience of what leads to such formations, and what kind of power or fatigue does the body feel.
