Glad We Made It On Time
Salt’s screening program Glad We Made It On Time, organized in collaboration with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, features a selection of video works from Palestine to Hong Kong, Indonesia to Iraq and India, exploring the notion of humor as a survival methodology in conflicted times. The program investigates the different forms that humor can take in a post-apocalyptic world, ranging from mythological symbols and collective fantasies to subtle gestures and absurd plots.
The selection explores the relationship between humor and hope as a form of alternative narrative-making that can heal, bind and serve diverse cultures and politically vulnerable individuals. On a personal level, humor has always been one of the most common coping mechanisms for dealing with the imbalance between the internal desire for control and external unpredictability. The program draws its name from Phan Anh’s Glad I made it on time, which is included in the program and refers to the devastating feeling of always being late in a hyper-productive, post-capitalist society.
The program includes works by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Zeynep Kayan and Özgür Atlagan, Tiffany Chung, Angela Su, Arahmaiani, Alison Nguyen, Connie Zheng, Phan Anh, Choi Sai-Ho, Walid Siti, Chitra Ganesh, Zeina Barakeh.
Naz Cuguoğlu and Vicky Do programmed Glad We Made It On Time in response to After Hope: Videos of Resistance, organized by the Asian Art Museum and curated by Abby Chen and Padma Maitland with video selections drawn from recommendations by artists, curators and organizations across the world.
Reading Group
As part of Glad We Made It On Time, Collective Çukurcuma and m-est.org will host a collaborative reading group at Salt Beyoğlu on Saturday, September 24 at 17.00. Moderated by Naz Cuguoğlu, Lara Ögel, and Merve Ünsal, the production of this session is part of the World Weather Network, co-founded and supported by SAHA in Turkey.
Please RSVP at collectivecukurcuma@gmail.com to receive reading group materials by Sara Ahmed and Etel Adnan. The reading discussion will be in Turkish.
PROGRAM
Saturday, September 24, 14.00 and 16.00
Sunday, September 25, 14.00 and 16.00
