Live session: What can a ‘fugitive song’ be? Introduction and background
Study session: Compositions
Fugitive Songs
Marie-Louise RichardsMarie-Louise Richards
Fugitive Songs
Fugitivity considers approaches to escape and liberation. Fugitive Songs reflect on Black feminists’ flights from transparency, captivity, and constraint, and creative practices of refusal that seek to undermine domination as a radical space-making practice. Songs are fugitive mediums that carry knowledge and generate space. Thinking through songs invites a reflection of creative practice and forms for mediating Black feminist abolitionist knowledge, acts of refuge, and refusal.
‣ Fugitivity‣ Black Feminist Thought‣ Black Study‣ Black Feminist Spatial Practices‣ Black Feminist Refusal
Dates & Times
March 3: 10AM–1PM EST
March 4: 10AM–1PM EST
March 5: 10AM–1PM EST
LocationOnline or In-Person, Stockholm
Cost$0
Age20+
LanguageEnglish
MaterialsLaptop with Wi-Fi
Accessibility SupportsClosed-Captioning
Max Students20
Course Description
This course will comprise close reading and listening, group discussion and activities, screenings, mini lectures, generative audio exercises, and independent study. Participants will read and discuss core textual, audio, and video sources, explore how to make ‘space’ for Black feminist fugitivity and futurity, develop strategies to create a non-extractive (digital and physical) ‘space’ for Black feminist study, and create their own ‘fugitive song.’
Participants will create and share a ‘fugitive song’ mediated in a form/format/medium of choice. This course will take up four hours per session.
Session 1
Session 2
Live session: Song Lessons
Study session: Rehearsals
Session 3
Live session: Playlist – Fugitive Songs
Sharing songs
Teacher(s)
Marie-Louise Richards
Marie-Louise Richards is an architect, lecturer, researcher, and founder of the experimental course “Reconstructions” in the Department for Research and Further Education in Architecture and Fine Art at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work explores ‘black feminist spatial futures’ as embodiment, critical strategy, and spatial category through methods of architectural and artistic research, curatorial practice, and writing.
www.reconstructions.space
www.marielouiserichards.com