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09.02.2025

Somatic Cosmologies

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Drawing on themes from Citra Sasmita's exhibition Into Eternal Land, the Barbican invites poets and writers to consider the body as world at a discussion chaired by Susanna Davies-Crook.

This panel will look inwards at physical experience such as pain, loss, trauma and how the body keeps the score – and examine how this is translated into art and language and mediated through those trying to find articulation for lived experience, and why it’s important, particularly in pointing to broader societal issues around how we show up in the world.

Looking through the lens of feminism, bodily knowledges and ancestral memory, the Barbican host an intersectional discussion on how the body is a contested territory, and how dreaming, ritual and myth allow us to understand the social body and consciously transform the world around us.

Time: 12 to 1.30pm

Cost: £15

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