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封城来信

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当前的新型冠状病毒肺炎疫情已导致中国及全球多地的许多活动中断，迫使许多人在家中或疾控中心指定地点隔离。

我们身在英国很难了解疫情地区的真实处境，看到每日主流媒体上国与国之间就这一问题的相互指责，以及社交媒体上来源不明的信息迅速传播，都加深了人们的困惑。

为此，我希望能搜集在中国封城地区的艺术家创作的小型绘画、速写、诗作、或思考片段，在伦敦的非营利空间Grandine（http://grandine.co.uk/）举办一场集体展览。 

参展作品要求：必须是艺术家在疫情期间的封城处境中创作的作品，作品尺幅不超过一个A4信封（21x 29厘米），重量不超过100克。

我们希望艺术家能够邮寄作品原件。如果邮寄无法实现，可以通过email发送作品图片至 post@grandine.co.uk，我将用黑白A4纸张打印出来。

我会从收到第一批作品开始就将他们在Grandine展出，当收到足够多的作品后，我会做一场闭幕展。展览结束之后，你可以选择把作品留给我作为记录这一历史时刻的集体档案，也可以要求我通过平邮返还给你。需要返还作品的艺术家在邮寄时请附上一个写有自己收信地址的信封。 

我们希望能够搜集尽可能多的受到封城事件影响的艺术家的作品，欢迎将这个文件转发给你在疫情地区的艺术家朋友，如果有任何疑问，也可发email向我询问。

同时，我们也在寻找可以帮助我们对文字类作品进行中译英的志愿者。  Continue reading 封城来信 →

Acervo da Laje. Trabalhando com a memória

Articles and Reports 
José Eduardo Ferreira Santos é pedagogo (UCSAL), mestre em Psicologia (UFBA), doutor em Saúde Pública (UFBA), pós – doutor em Cultura Contemporânea (PACC – UFRJ), curador do Acervo da Laje. Luigi Galimberti é editor do site transnationaldialogues.eu.

Luigi Galimberti: O que é o Acervo da Laje?

José Eduardo Ferreira Santos: O Acervo da Laje é um espaço de memória estética e artística das periferias de Salvador, na Bahia. Funciona em duas casas no bairro do São João do Cabrito, Plataforma, área caracterizada durante muito tempo como perigosa por conta da pobreza e da violência. Continue reading Acervo da Laje. Trabalhando com a memória →

The 6th Ring Project

Marginalia, Residency China June 2016

This is a survey project started by the publishing house Floor #2 Press and conducted by artists in the administrative villages within the fifth and sixth rings of Beijing. The project invited and welcomed each participant to conduct field surveys in an artistic form on one particular aspect of a selected village in the region, to be carried out independently or cooperatively with local people for a period of not less than 10 days.

Interview with Man Yu 满宇, Ge Fei 葛非 and Ge Lei 葛磊 by Luigi Galimberti 鲁及 and Ma Yongfeng 馬永峰, as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016

Continue reading The 6th Ring Project →

Music Across

TD 2015-2016

by Guilherme Peluci

I started researching about Conducted Improvisation in 2010, when Milagros “Chaya” Vasques (a musician, actress, clown and conductor from Argentina who was living in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) invited me to play with her “Frito na Hora” orchestra, where she used Santiago Vazques “percussión and ritmo con señas” method, to conduct improvisation. Continue reading Music Across →

Afrofuturismo

Articles and Reports, Marginalia 
Texto escrito por Azu Nwagbogu para a exposição Foam X African Artists' Foundation, 19 de maio - 16 de julho de 2017, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. The text is also available in English!

“Eis que o povo é um, e todos têm uma mesma língua; e isto é o que começam a fazer; e agora, não haverá restrição para tudo o que eles intentarem fazer.”
Gênesis, capítulo 11, versículo 6

Quando foi a última vez que você viu um protagonista africano, uma pessoa negra em uma narrativa de ficção cujo caráter é aprimorado e inspirador? Talvez em uma história em quadrinhos, ou como James Bond, em uma série de TV conhecida, com certeza alguma coisa no cinema? Enquanto você faz essa busca, apresento aqui três jovens líderes globais africanos que rompem com essa narrativa. Mũchiri Njenga, Kadara Enyeasi e Osborne Macharia estão reformulando nossa realidade contemporânea através de narrativas ficcionais utilizando meios que se valem de lentes. Continue reading Afrofuturismo →

Speculations on the Fifth Income

Articles and Reports, Between Crowds and Empires 
This article by Pedro Victor Brandão is part of the project "Between Crowds and Empires", a multimedia online publication on the collaborative economy. It was firstly published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016.

During the month of March 2015 I went to Panama along with the critic and curator Beatriz Lemos to develop a research after her invitation to join the Central-American phase of the project Lastro – intercâmbios livres em arte [free exchanges in art].

Researching the history of the country, we learned that Panama was under Spanish rule for almost 300 years (1538-1821). Previously part of the territory of Gran Colombia, in 1903 the United States of America and the Roosevelt administration, in dispute with Colombia, created the country, making the banking group JP Morgan the official fiscal agent of the new country. This was one of Roosevelt’s consolidations of the Monroe Doctrine in Central America. The creation of the country was based purely on commercial interests, including gaining full control of the Inter-Oceanic Canal that was under construction at the time, to be completed in 1914. The country’s image as a tax haven began there. Continue reading Speculations on the Fifth Income →

Occupying Public Space in Brazil

Articles and Reports, Marginalia, Residency Brazil March 2016 
Collectives and Bottom-up Initiatives. Learning from the Examples in Brazil. An article by Iva Čukić, as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016.

The aggravation of social inequalities and poverty, and the rise of unemployment and existential uncertainty in Brazil, especially among young people, has driven various groups and individuals to seek niches beyond traditional social structures in the hope of discovering new possibilities and ways of (re-)action in order to achieve their desires and needs. Continue reading Occupying Public Space in Brazil →

What Is Lost Is Lost Forever

Articles and Reports, Between Crowds and Empires, Residency China June 2016 
An article by Sun Siwei 孙思维, as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016. The text was conceived for the discussion “Between Crowds and Empires / 群众和帝国之间” that took place at Goethe-Institut Beijing on 18 June 2016.

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Yin and I were in Namsoo’s, a Yunnan restaurant near the Andingmen station, eating mushrooms. It started raining outside again. Continue reading What Is Lost Is Lost Forever →

Rethinking Cultural Assets, De-Capitalising Intellectual Property

Articles and Reports, Between Crowds and Empires 
CTRL – Rethinking Cultural Assets, De-Capitalising Intellectual Property. A New Comprehensive Approach to the Music Market. An article by Margherita D'Andrea and Corrado Gemini as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016.

Summer 2016: the heat is oppressive as you book your house by the sea on Airbnb. You managed to organise seven special days of holiday.

After having filled all the places in the car with passengers who will share the cost of the journey with you, thanks to BlaBlaCar, you rush to prepare dinner for the Norwegian who’s passing through and will stay in your house next week while you’re away. Continue reading Rethinking Cultural Assets, De-Capitalising Intellectual Property →

Digua Shequ 地瓜社区

Articles and Reports, Between Crowds and Empires, Residency China June 2016 
An Underground Middle Path. How Does a Social Initiative Test Commercial Rule and the Common Good? An article by Chen Yiming 陈奕名 as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016.

The Digua Shequ 地瓜社区 community centre is a city basement renovation project  in Beijing initiated by Zhou Zishu 周子书. Two floors below the street, the basement was once a bomb shelter designed to withstand wartime air raids, before later becoming residential. Continue reading Digua Shequ 地瓜社区 →

Cultural Mobility in Brazil

Articles and Reports

Our friends at Embaixada Cultural have just published a not-to-be-missed guide on cultural mobility funding opportunities for Brazilian artists, cultural professionals, organisations and opportunities for non-Brazilians to develop projects and cultural mobility experiences in Brazil. This very useful resource could be downloaded for free in English or Portuguese (PDFs).