Project 88 is proud to announce Performing Resistance, as part of its on-going collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, for Artists' Film International. Organised annually since 2009, Artists' Film International showcases artists working with film, video and animation, selected by 14 partner organizations around the world and presented over the course of a year in each venue. 

This year Project 88 is represented by Tejal Shah's Some Kindof Nature (2013-2014). In addition, for Project 88's show, Shah has also selected other video works to be screened alongside her new three-channel video installation accompanied by a photographic work. 

Shah's selection comprises: Masooda Noora's…, 2013, Milica Tomic's One day, instead of one night, A burst of machine-gun fire will flash, If light cannot come otherwise (Oskar Davico - fragment of a poem), 2009 and Zarghuna Hotak's I and You. 

Hailing from across three generations and diverse geo-socio-political frameworks of Serbia, Afghanistan and India, the four artists' works are marked by performative gestures within public or domestic spheres. The works bring us political and poetic insights that playfully resist systemic forces. As it happens. Performing resistance is also a term used in exercise and body training culture and is echoed here as each work also underscores the laboring body of the artist. 

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© Tejal Shah