{"id":15500,"date":"2016-09-24T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=15500"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T13:07:03","slug":"phase-by-samania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/phase-by-samania\/","title":{"rendered":"PHASE by SAMANIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFilm Still #1 from ‘PHASE’ by SAMANIA (2016).<\/em><\/p>\n

PHASE<\/h2>\n

Artist\/Scholar duo SAMANIA (Samira Mahboub + Ania Catherine) release PHASE: A response to those who tellqueer women \u201cIt\u2019s just a phase.\u201d SAMANIA, based on their experience as a couple and hearing comments such as \u201cI don\u2019t get it, I\u2019m just worried about you, It\u2019s just a phase,\u201c decided to call-out the less visible and seemingly innocent discourses around romantic love between women. PHASE<\/em> has two prongs: a SAMANIA film strikingly shot\/edited by LA-based creative Delaram Pourabdi and a poem by Ania Catherine.<\/p>\n

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\nFilm still #2 from ‘PHASE’<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a phase.\u201d Find a woman who hasn\u2019t heard these words regarding her attraction to or relationship with another woman. PHASE<\/em> is a response. There has been a recent and drastic increase in the visibility of female-female relationships throughout media. However, subtle and implicit forms of delegitimation and ridiculization of relationships between women are omnipresent. As French intellectual Michel Foucault has written, power\u2019s \u201csuccess is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms\u201d; PHASE<\/em> highlights the less visible (and therefore underestimated) yet still powerful forms of heterosexism. Increased media presence should not be conflated with sexual equality. The social acceptability of such comments needs to be challenged, as these subtle forms of discrimination could be easily eliminated were people made more aware of their harm.<\/p>\n

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\nFilm still #3 from ‘PHASE’<\/em><\/p>\n

View ‘PHASE’<\/h2>\n

www.vimeo.com\/samania\/phase<\/a>
\nwww.bysamania.com\/phase<\/p>\n

Who is SAMANIA?<\/h2>\n

\"SamiraSAMANIA is an artist\/scholar duo composed of Samira Mahboub and Ania Catherine<\/a>. Samira (Germany) and Ania (USA) met in 2013 while pursuing master\u2019s degrees at the London School of Economics Gender Institute. In 2014, they collaborated on their first film, cloth, which was featured in the International Museum of Women\u2019s exhibition \u201cImagining Equality\u201d and in the Huffington Post\u2019s \u201c5 Amazing Ways Women and Girls are Breaking Gender Stereotypes Worldwide\u201d. Together they combine their creative work (performance, fashion, art) and academic interests (gender, coloniality, sexuality) to translate sociopolitical subjects into a digestible visual form. In addition, Samira works in New York as a model represented by Wilhelmina, and Ania in Los Angeles as an artist and choreographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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