Gérald Kurdian - HOT BODIES - TV

In the frame of News From Home, HOT BODIES - TV invites a group of woodwork and car mechanics students from the St-Joseph institute in Etterbeek: a collaboration that Gérald Kurdian and Kunstenfestivaldesarts initiated in the early month of 2020. Together, and as a final moment of this parcours, they present and unfold an utopian fanzine they have been developing together. A moment of presentation open to the audience, to enforce the mutuality and kinship that lie at the core of HOT BODIES. HOT BODIES - TV is a living archive, created and assembled collectively. At the intersection of artistic creation, social justice and future ecologies, it uses digital means to challenge isolation and trigger conversations between distanced individuals in different European contexts. Conceived by Gérald Kurdian as a multifaceted tv program, it happens through episodes constructed each time around one guest or a group of guests, and it uses online video-sharing platforms to allow community building, while remaining available to a larger audience. One episode after the other, HOT BODIES - TV constructs a growing archive, organised in four “playlists”, according to four eco-feminist activism strategies: occupy, heal, celebrate and transform.