Checklist

1 Being with you taught me how to be alone
2 You can`t say "It`s not that bad" and "I didn`t know"
3 Evil is focused
4 All is temporary with loss
5 The dog bites
6 The greater messengers died before you
7 The Arab slave trade
8 Can`t see what never hide
9 The circle of reason
10 Tears of butter
11 Sunlight steeped in hell awhile
12 Geographical limitations
13 Rate this translation
14 Artist has become a lifestyle limitation
15 Le beurre Bordier
16 I want 150 people to taste it
17 What canned sardines
18 The sun is an ingredient
19 Laurie Ann
20 Libre Service 1938
21 You inhabit two worlds
22 Dead dirt
23 We use to call it a long film
24 The devil ain`t got no music
25 Human Power is targeted
26 We don`t properly understand Let It Come Down
27 Why are you satisfied with your level of understanding that lead you to that conclusion
28 Media lead urgency
29 Confusion
30 Our vision for us
31 They tore the phone off the wall
32 Cut to the chase
33 degrees

6 November

https://kosmos.ch/programm/veranstaltungen/kosmopolitics-reclaim-anger-wut-als-feministische-kraft/103614

Kosmopolitics – Reclaim Anger. Wut als feministische Kraft

Mit dem Feministischen Salon

«Ich habe gelernt, meinen Ärger zu nutzen, ehe er meine Visionen verzehrt», schrieb die Schwarze Feministin Audre Lorde. Für sie war Wut visionär, Wut war politisch. Es ist an der Zeit, Wut wieder als eine feministische Kraft zu entdecken. Eine Kraft, die sich der Domestizierung von negativen Gefühlen widersetzt, die sich gegen die Betäubung des Denkens durch die Doktrin der guten Laune auflehnt, die den Sinn für Ungerechtigkeit und Verweigerung schärft. Eine Kraft, die das «Spiel» von Macht und Unterdrückung verdirbt. «Killjoy» ist ein Ausdruck für feministische Wut. Wir können nicht länger zulassen, dass unser Zorn vom Produktionsapparat abgeschöpft wird, im Nichts verpufft oder sich gegen uns selbst wendet. Wir dürfen uns nicht einlullen lassen von Karriereversprechen, Ich-Versautheit oder dem übernächsten angesagten Unsinn. Lasst uns Feminismus wieder mit Wut aufladen. Das allein ist noch nicht die Lösung, aber ein Anfang.» (Text vom feministischen Salon)

Der Abend ist eine Hommage an den Zorn – mit Lesungen, Poetry Slam und Musik von Filmemacherin/Musikerin Jamika Ajalon (Paris) und Sebastian Rotzler (Double Bass), den Spoken Word-Künstler*innen Fork Burke (Biel) und Meloe Gennai (Genf) und der feministischen Bloggerin/Aktivistin Franziska Schutzbach (Basel).

«Reclaim Anger» wurde erstmals 2016 in anderer Besetzung im Theater Neumarkt Zürich aufgeführt.

Türöffnung: 19.30 Uhr
Beginn: 20.00 Uhr
Eintritt frei, Kollekte

WEITERES DATUM MIT DEM FEMINISTISCHEN SALON
Montag, 11. Dezember 2017

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ÜBER DEN FEMINISTISCHEN SALON
Der feministische Salon veranstaltet intellektuelle, provokative, politische, lustige, radikale, affektive und nachdenkliche Abende zu queer_feministischen Themen. Im feministischen Salon gibt es Glitzer und Dreck, Weichheit und Härte, Negation und Affirmation, Wut und Care, Politik und Anti-Politik, Fiktion und Utopie, Solidarität und Kritik, Trash und schlechten Geschmack, Rausch und Depression, Analyse und Poesie. Und Prosecco und Bier. Hinter dem feministischen Salon stehen Franziska Schutzbach, Anelis Kaiser und Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo.

Mo. 06.11., 20.00 Uhr Forum

http://parislitup.com/event/fork-burke-poet-extraordinaire-accompanied-by-sebastian-rotzler-on-bass/

A Word for a Play

Being pulled out of my language now speaking – witness translate I write – Our

Hands have never lied

Images hide a world – Images announce a world – describe what you see and go

Open up images – Do you see it – end of new eyes

What color is the black bird

Her name begins with the letter O or L and mine begins with me

not a sound – we haven`t created anything and lucky for leaks

That there is force between you and the crushing world is plenty

I want to remember what dreams are for – I don`t want to know what dreams mean

We will never be trained well enough like this

There will be no arrival – I am only speaking into you – Perhaps

the storyteller and the listener are the same – I write because I don`t know you at all

because outside agreements are a consideration I know I swore I`d never do it again

words create a simultaneous entry

The door is closed

The door is open

It began with a water drop – a drop of water

Textual kinship is good home training – It began with a text – translating yourselves to yourself

We are all in here

Can we choreograph my text – I don’t speak to say what I mean

I speak to our with that I may discover what I mean

What really needs to be said – we mustn`t quote each other anymore

Quotes are memory going deeper into where language shifts you

Write what happened to your body – where you went – not what was said

You were already there for so long – what opens us knows only the power of our organs

and collaboration and ears – I write to tell you I am here

that I will cut your fragments open your empty mouth ready

photo by Christelle Geiser

8 October at 17h
Berekeley Books of Paris - 8 Rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, France
With The Poets
Malik Ameer Crumpler
Jamika Ajalon
Bruce Edward Sherfield
and joining Fork Burke - Sebastian Rotzler


Sebastian Rotzler is a double-bass player, improviser and sound-creator. His work emphasizes experimental, improvised music with a strong attachment to composed aspects. His playing is inspired by associations, by developing sound patterns, but it can also outburst into sudden but still specific sound interventions.
Next to his own playing he initiated divers art- and music projects and plays together with different exponents of the improvised music-scene. www.sebastianrotzler.ch

Checklist by Fork Burke

1 I gave birth in two languages
2 Too many words for flavor
3 Structure that helps follow the idea
4 remote control dream
5 Ask the cucumbers
6 Discomfort is one of the last pleasures
7 Where in the body is religion located
8 A missed shot
9 Pursuit of a temporary fix
10 The Fuckin Rabbit
11 The food we eat gives the energy back to the wine
12 Once a year I find a wallet
13 Liquid Rock
14 People are the ultimate fiction
15 full skin contact for texture and territorial identity
16 How have you trained yourself
17 It`s not the evil it`s the permission
18 all they be left with is fuckin their cousins and eatin squirrels
19 Places of sacred orgasmic known knowns
20 You gotta get your hands on it - get the written record and insert a little part of yourself
21 I seek no permission no equality
22 Nestled in Zermatt
23 Observation changed me too
24 Destroy it before they let you have it
25 A sense of terror
26 Less Unreadable
27 You have to say yes twice
28 Bifocal Foundation
29 Each step is a question Fed and Formed
30 YES
31 You want me to collaborate with my own demise
32 HA!
33 degrees

Life is A Cut-Up