Reflecting on the process of co-creating a digital assemblage titled “THIS IS A TEMPORAL LANDSCAPE, YOU WILL FIND NO DIRECTION HERE” with engineer Agnes Cameron in 2024, the talk considers the possibilities offered by the imagination and relational aesthetic practices in critiquing the affective regime of fascism. It asks, how might engagement with the material of radical social movements as part of relational aesthetic strategy open up new ways of thinking and moving against the material and symbolic violence of capitalism? Against the algorithmic present, I reinvestigate culture as an avenue through which attachments to freedom may be cultivated and the functional elements of utopia revived.
Lola Olufemi is a black feminist writer and researcher from London. She is a lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths University. Her work focuses on the utility of the political imagination in the textual and visual cultures of radical social movements, examining the role cultural production plays in materialist resistance and collective conceptualisations of futurity. She is author of Feminism Interrupted: Disrupting Power (Pluto Press, 2020), Experiments in Imagining Otherwise (Hajar Press, 2021), the forthcoming Against Literature (Peninsula Press, 2026) and a member of ‘bare minimum’, an interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective. She occasionally curates and is a member of the organising team at the Feminist Library based in Peckham.
Screening schedule
- Dokukino KIC
