'Poison the Cure' | Conversation and screening with Jenna Bliss, Alex Fleming and Las Nietas de Nonó
<p>10 June 2017, 4pm</p> <p>Jenna Bliss and Alex Fleming will discuss the research and production process which informed her new film <em>Poison the Cure</em> (2017), including Bliss’s work with artist and actor Michel Nonó of the performance collective Las Nietas de Nonó. They will draw on their previous projects to explore shared interests in narratives of addiction, self-care and pharmacology.</p> <p>A screening will follow of Las Nietas de Nonó’s <em>Manifestaciones en periodos de caza </em>(2016) – depicting four women hunting iguanas in Puerto Rico, a US colony where 80% of the food is imported – as well as a Skype conversation with Las Nietas de Nonó.</p> <p>Jenna Bliss’s <em>Poison the Cure </em>(2017) was commissioned by Raven Row for <em>56 Artillery Lane</em> and is supported using public funding by Art Council England.</p>
Authors: Jenna Bliss, Alex Fleming, Las Nietas de Nonó
Part of: Raven Row Podcast