Wiels - EN

At AFFILIATE, Rebecca Jane Arthur presents Gossips & Ghosts, the first chapter of an audiovisual research project that brings together women in a collective reading circle and celebrates citation as feminist memory. Filmed on 16mm, the work weaves together voices, fragmented readings, and gestures. It unfolds through voicing, citing, listening, and gathering – acts that resist isolation and build a collective feminist memory.

Drawing on the writings of Silvia Federici, the project revisits how “gossip” – once meaning close friend or companion – was transformed into a term of ridicule, historically contributing to the erosion of female solidarity. In response, Arthur gathers voices reading feminist theory on silence, storytelling, and resistance, foregrounding the sharing of knowledge as a form of collective power and reclaiming “gossip” as a form of feminist kinship.

Rebecca Jane Arthur is an artist based in Brussels. She is co-founder of the artist-run production and distribution platform elephy, artistic doctoral researcher at KASK & Conservatorium/School of Art Gent, where she teaches in the visual arts department and lectures on feminist theory, and contributor to the online film criticism platform Sabzian. 

Supported by the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), KASK, and elephy.