Screening followed by a conversation with the artist, Nicolas Helm-Grovas, and Anna R. Winder

 María Ruido

A screening of two films by María Ruido, placing one of Ruido's earliest works in dialogue with one of her most recent.

The Inner Memory (2002, 33 mins) This work, the result of a trip to Germany (taken in December of 2000) and of a personal investigation lasting over two years, tackles the construction of memory and the mechanisms of the production of history. It explores the experience of the artists' parents and uncle as "Gastarbeiter". The Inner Memory underscores the significance of the body as a territory of memory and absence, and as a political agent. The politics of migration from the Spanish state in the sixties and seventies is treated as a form of biopolitics and of control of workers. This is a video about the retrieval of these bodies and their work.

The Rules of the Game (2022, 41 mins) The Rules of the Game is a conversation-performance in sequence shot between the writer and activist Brigitte Vasallo and the artist, filmmaker and researcher María Ruido, about trans-class experience, institutional violence, and class and gender performativity. The conversation starts from the idea that being trans-class involves not only a shift of economic and social conditions, but also submission to forms of normativity that blind us, block our subjective transformations, and expropriate things that are rightfully ours. Gesture and language are forced into another mode of performativity, that of the social positions we are now meant to occupy.

The event is presented as part of Nicolas Helm-Grovas's and Anna R. Winder's studio residency at anorak, supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion (Basisförderung für Projekträume).