Arjuna Neuman, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum is a film dedicated to tenderness. It reproduces a radical sensibility we learned from listening to the blues, from listening to skin, to heat, and from listening to echoes, to listening itself. We ask: Could tenderness dissolve total violence? Could tears displace total extraction? We reimagine the human and its subject formation, away from predatory desire and lethal abstraction, away from the mind and eyes and noble senses, away from extraction and its articulations as ethnography, border regimes, slavery, sexual abuse, trade, and mining. Instead we turn to skin, resonance, and tenderness as the raw material of our reimagined earthy sensibility. Remembering that to be tender is to soften like supple grass, to attend to is to care for, to serve. Serving, we know, is the opposite of slavery, just as violence might dissolve with care. The screeing is part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2020 and is supported by the Government of Canada / Embassy of Canada to Germany.
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