I was invited by artist Jeremiah Day to join a re-make of the unreleasable film by Gilles Vandaele - which shows the occupation of forest in Arlon. The occupation was bulldozed in the spring of 2021. It was a largely ignored attempt by young civil society activists to defend public space and resources.

At the same time I was working on a piece with choreographer / dance artist Laurie Young. On one side I was driven by the notion of resistance of these activists in the forest, on the other side – in conversation with Laurie – by the exhausted bodies. We developed sculptures, which tried to caption the imprints of these slack bodies. Imprints and at the same time a holding structure, not to overcome this moments of inactivity or to offer resting. It was rather an attempt to complicate the idea of resting as the entering wedge to reenter the circle of productivity. Ultimately to hold on to this poses in an embracement – as an other from of resistance?

Sadiq is a visual artist. Her performative-poetic and minimalist conceptual practice explores the boundaries between rational aesthetics and postcolonial theory. She intertwines and questions the roles of artist, visitor and social reality as well as the experiences of participation and interaction that can produce feelings of alienation and exclusion. Sadiq also works interdisciplinary with other artists. Her installations – often within a single realization – include video, sculpture, text, sound and music. The performativity of reading plays an important role in her works, which revolve around current issues of visualizing politics through art. Anike Joyce Sadiq lives and works in Berlin.

I was invited by artist Jeremiah Day to join a re-make of the unreleasable film by Gilles Vandaele - which shows the occupation of forest in Arlon. The occupation was bulldozed in the spring of 2021. It was a largely ignored attempt by young civil society activists to defend public space and resources.

At the same time I was working on a piece with choreographer / dance artist Laurie Young. On one side I was driven by the notion of resistance of these activists in the forest, on the other side – in conversation with Laurie – by the exhausted bodies. We developed sculptures, which tried to caption the imprints of these slack bodies. Imprints and at the same time a holding structure, not to overcome this moments of inactivity or to offer resting. It was rather an attempt to complicate the idea of resting as the entering wedge to reenter the circle of productivity. Ultimately to hold on to this poses in an embracement – as an other from of resistance?

Sadiq is a visual artist. Her performative-poetic and minimalist conceptual practice explores the boundaries between rational aesthetics and postcolonial theory. She intertwines and questions the roles of artist, visitor and social reality as well as the experiences of participation and interaction that can produce feelings of alienation and exclusion. Sadiq also works interdisciplinary with other artists. Her installations – often within a single realization – include video, sculpture, text, sound and music. The performativity of reading plays an important role in her works, which revolve around current issues of visualizing politics through art. Anike Joyce Sadiq lives and works in Berlin.