The Film Club: Bodily Remains

Tai Shani’s “My Bodily Remains, Your Bodily Remains, and All the Bodily Remains that Ever Were, and Ever Will Be” has four protagonists. “Them who Love” is the name of two different characters with an ambiguous relationship, who talk about love in a profound and epic, almost spiritual way. “The Ghost for Revolution” recounts somatic histories of fascism, and “The Reader of The Book of Love” reads historical quotes from individuals or groups that were involved in non non-violent action.

The four figures take us along on a poetic meditation overvarious historical resistance movements and groups, the spiritual dimensions of equality, intersectional queer feminism, communism and revolutionary thinking to recognise the emancipatory power of love and pleasure as a catalyst for radical change.

After the screening, Blaise Kirschner, professor in moving image at the Royal Institute of Art, talks to the director Tai Shani over a video link.

Tai Shani

Tai Shani (b. 1976) is a British artist. She was the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. The same year, Shani was also a Max Mara prize nominee.

Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally, such as at British Art Show 09, Touring (2021), CentroCentro, Madrid (2019-20), Turner Contemporary, UK (2019); Grazer Kunstverein, Austria (2019); Nottingham Contemporary, U.K. (2019); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy (2019); Glasgow International, UK (2018); Tenstakonsthall, Sweden (2017), Wysing Arts Centre, UK (2017); Serpentine Galleries, London (2016); Tate, London (2016); and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016).