Conference Room
Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo g. 3
Nida LT-93127
Marwa Arsanios
‘Who Is Afraid of Ideology?’
Part 1 (2017) & Part 2 (2019), 56min 33
Part 3: Micro Resistencias (2020), 31min 17
Part 4: A Letter Inside a Letter (2021–ongoing), 35min
For the closing of the exhibition ‘Neringa Wood Works’ and the 10th Nida Doctoral School ‘Experimental Feminisms: Correspondence, Fabulation, Reenactment’ we are happy to screen all 4 parts of Marwa Arsanios’s work ‘Who Is Afraid of Ideology?’
Taking a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to research and filmmaking, Arsanios confronts long-established political and socioeconomic systems of oppression and exploitation by portraying alternative ways of living in harmony with nature. Women’s lived experiences and anti-colonial struggles marked by collectivism, care and self-defence become an example for wider social and political change.
In ‘Part 1’ (2017) & ‘Part 2’ (2019) of ‘Who Is Afraid of Ideology?’, Arsanios addresses forms of self-governance and knowledge production that have emerged from the Kurdish autonomous women’s movement. ‘Part 3: Micro Resistencias’ (2020), takes place in Tolima, Colombia, and focuses on the current systemic war led by transnational corporations against the tiniest and most essential aspect of life: seeds. The last film in this quadrilogy, ‘Part 4: A Letter Inside a Letter’ (2021–ongoing), examines the issues of inheritance, ownership, property and value through questioning the neoliberal politics of visibility and invisibility.
Marwa Arsanios lives and works between Berlin and Beirut. Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher with a particular focus on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles. She looks at histories of resistances in their contemporary resonance. Arsanios approaches research collaboratively and seeks to work across disciplines. She is the co-founder of the Research Project 98weeks.
‘Neringa Wood Works‘ is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Neringa Municipality and Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council.
