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 for studying together as a multidisciplinary practice that combines texts from poetry, fiction, and theory to explore potential new entryways for locating knowledge within ourselves and collectively. What could it mean to embrace more chaotic, non-linear methods of learning together? How has Western knowledge production dominated and controlled our radical imagination and poetics, inhibiting how we read, write, and learn together? 

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, Sarah Ahmed, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Serubiri Moses, Akwaeke Emezi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sobonfu Somé, Édouard Glissant, Mira Matter, Saïda 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 will take place at PODIUM Oslo on Saturday August 9 fra 13:00 - 16:00 and has a limited capacity. Sign up now by sending an email to mindeaterfestival@gmail.com

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.