Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations 2023 Presentation — Saving the Life That is Your Own by Keren Lasme

Synopsis

From discussing mythopoetic identity formation, personal attachment to formative texts, reading as a practice for freedom and the necessity for spaces of collective learning and community building, Keren engages in a personal reflection on the healing, redemptive and transformative power of art especially literature, how it served and still serves as an emancipatory tool in her journey as a being in constant search of ways to fully appreciate life in all its aspects.

About Keren Lasme

An artist, independent researcher, and curator, Keren holds an MA in African Studies from SOAS University of London with a major in African Philosophy. Her interdisciplinary work is concerned with mythopoetic identity formation, knowledge activation and the use of fiction and imagination as spatio-temporal tools to conjure better presents and futures. Keren is interested in alternative spaces of (un)learning as dreamscapes and playgrounds to negotiate freedom, healing, revelation and reconfiguration of social imaginaries. Her curatorial and research practice engages with educational theory, the politics of care and pleasure, while using the collective memories and imagination archived in African literatures as praxis. 

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