Womxn in Motion: Dreamers

<p><em>Womxn in Motion</em> the fourth Master symposium in the series <em>Womxn in the Arts and Leadership</em>, took place on 7 and 8 October 2020 at the Art Institute HGK FHNW in Basel. It was dedicated to ideas and iterations of performance, and to the way in which its embodied practices—its bodies—are often framed or received by narrow notions not only of gender, race, class, geography, technology, and temporality, but of what performance itself means and entails: a body in motion, for example. Whose body, though, and what kind of movement? Movement, indeed, is always both, suggesting something singular—a body in tender, private effort—and something collective.</p> <p>In the first of six episodes based on the symposium <em>Womxn in Motion</em>, Basel-based artist Lynne Kouassi is in conversation with Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer. Her works explore the excluding effects of structural dominance and other normative orders, as well as the historical and social conditions that shape the relationship between body, gender, knowledge, and power. Lynne Kouassi’s practice also addresses strategies for escaping control and questions of migration.</p>