Visual inspiration (visible/invisible, secret language, code, etc.)
Readings
Films on freedom and resistance:
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom by Adam Curtis
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) by Trinh T Minh Ha
The silent revolution by Lars Kraume
Great freedom by Sebastian Meise
Gestures of Resistance (about the Holocaust) (Olga Stefan)
https://filmfreeway.com/GesturesofResistance
A Cambodian Spring
TRAILER Directed by Christopher Kelly
A German Youth / Une Jeunesse Allemande
TRAILER Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot
Naila and the Uprising, France, Switzerland, 2015 by Julia Bacha
Readings about freedom/resistance/feminism:
Articles:
Law and the Space of Appearance in Arendt’s Thought by JOHAN VAN DER WALT
Materializing a Gesture of Resistance by Sharon Daniel
On Fantasy, Placelessness And Queer Futurity
FUTURISMS issue (the Funambulist)
https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/24-futurisms
Books:
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing "practices of freedom" by which we negotiate our interrelation with—indeed, our inseparability from—others, with all the care and constraint that relation entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.
For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture—from recent art world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis—is itself a practice of freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving. There can be no love without justice.—from the chapter "To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism". In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.
hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future.
hooks speaks to all those in search of true liberation, asking readers to take look at feminism in a new light, to see that it touches all lives. Issuing an invitation to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism—far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite--is indeed for everybody.
Everybody: a Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing
In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to explore gay rights and sexual liberation, feminism, and the civil rights movement.
The Black Speculative Arts Movement
Black Futurity, Art+Design
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498510554/The-Black-Speculative-Arts-Movement-Black-Futurity-ArtDesign
Secret languages:
Polari:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180212-polari-the-code-language-gay-men-used-to-survive
https://blog.yorksj.ac.uk/englishlit/a-queer-code-polari--secret-language-you-need-to-know/
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/polari-and-hidden-history-of-gay-seafarers
Book:
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
https://www.amazon.ca/Fabulosa-Polari-Britains-Secret-Language/dp/178914132X
Làadan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Láadan
This is an Essay: The Language and Legacy of Láadan (Evidently)
https://tortoise.princeton.edu/2015/10/18/language-and-legacy-of-laadan/
Láadan, the Constructed Language in Native Tongue
https://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/Laadan.html
Láadan: The Fictional, Feminist Language Designed to Convey Unique Female Experiences
https://theswaddle.com/laadan-feminist-language-made-for-women-experiences/
The Hanky code:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
http://www.onyxnynortheast.org/hanky-code-introduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code
https://www.refinery29.com/en-ca/2019/06/234386/lgbtq-secret-handkerchief-code-language
Art, invisibility through ink/material:
Aowen Jin Presents Ink Paintings Only Visible Under UV Light
https://www.wsj.com/articles/photos-an-art-show-visible-only-under-uv-light-1424837273
Art and secret languages or hidden symbols:
The secret of naming clouds by Karri Flannigan
https://www.kerriflannigan.com/the-secrets-of-naming-clouds
Keith Haring’s Art Has a Secret Language—Here’s How to Decode His Most Powerful Symbols
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/keith-haring-albertina-museum-vienna-1247417
Secret language group exhibition
Silvia Amancei & Bogdan Armanu, Sandor Bartha, Elijah Burgher, Cristina David, Irina Gheorghe, Iulia Toma, Jaro Varga, Mădălina Zaharia
http://ivangallery.com/index.php/secret-language/#
Google these artists: Irina Gheorghe, Iulia Toma