“IMA READ THAT BITCH”: An international video art festival, with a special focus on queer / trans / postcolonial / decolonial / non-western politics of contemporary feminist thought(s).

On 8 March 2015, a group of Tromsø Art Academy students collectively curated and organised a video art screening: “IMA READ THAT BITCH”. The screening featured video works from South Africa, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada and Germany.

“IMA READ THAT BITCH” was a showcase of video works that the organisers considered to be meaningful articulations of their individual experiences, and understandings, of what it means to be a feminist, today. The festival programme included the launch of ‘Chapter I’, which was to become the first volume of IMA READ’s subsequent series of publications for collective education on intersectional feminism.

Zebra Katz - Ima Read (ft. Njena Reddd Foxxx) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo4Sqt2Bmag

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

IWD March through city centre

14:00

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Opening of Exhibition at Beate’s Black Box    16 - 18

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Reception at Small Projects

18:00-18:30

Video Programme

18:30-20:00

Bar screenings

20:00

‘Chapter I’ Publication Launch

20 - 22

Artists*

Donna Kukama (ZA)

Zina Saro-Wiwa (NU/UK/UK)

Dineo Seshee-Bopape (ZA)

Iris Smeds (SE)

Jess Mac & Alexus Young (CA)

Ofelia Jarl Ortega (SE)

Choir for the Passionate (SE)

Emelie Carlén (SE)

Amanda Angleman (SE)

Beatrice Johnsons (SE)

Pinar and Viola (TR and NL)

Donna Verheijden (NL)

Organisers

Calder Harben

Madelen Eliasson

Beate Persdotter Løken

Georgia Munnik

Emmeli Person

Martina Petrelli

*All video works shown were authorised by the artists.