Samira ghoualmia

Chaos Reading Workshop

The Chaos reading is an associative, fragmentary, way of fictioning approaches to different kinds of knowledge(s) in text and spoken word. Throughout associating and crisscrossing snippets from selected texts, the participants form cross references to reimagine relations and stretch boundaries of how we are taught to read and write, and to experiment with chaos as a method of learning, attempting to undo linear, and fixed hierarchies of knowledge.

The Chaos reading is an open format to study together as a multidisciplinary practice of mixing text of poetry, fiction, and theory to find potential new entryways of locating knowledge within ourselves and together. What could it mean to embrace chaos as a method of learning together? What are the relations to chaos and the othered, the feminine, the queer, the indigenous, and the alien? How has Western learning dominated and controlled our radical imagination and poetics and inhibited how we read, write, and learn together? How could we use “chaotic” methods to approach knowledge beyond linear restrictions?

The Chaos Reading is a writing and reading workshop. It’s a playful way to approach text in creative writing and reading.

Previous sessions included material by Kazim Ali, Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, Sarah Ahmed, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Akwaeke Emezi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sobonfu Somé, Édouard Glissant, Mira Matter, Saida Menebhi, bell hooks, and Trinh T. Minh-Ha.

The Chaos Reading has the focus of fiction, theory, and poetry of anti-colonial, feminist, and queer voices.

The workshop has limited capacity. Sign up will be available soon.

Samira Ghoualmia is an art historian, art educator, and storyteller based between Berlin and Tunis. In her practice, she moves through non-linear forms of knowledge, playing with cross-references undoing fixed boundaries of hierarchies of learning.

She is a member of Archive Ensemble and has co-curated and coordinated the art education program of the 12th Berlin Biennale.