Chinese Documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang (pictured above) launched the “Memory Project” in 2010 to collect oral histories from survivors of the Great Famine (1958-1961) in rural China. Since 2010, several young filmmakers have joined the project, including Guo Rui, author of “The Great Famine of my Grandfather”, who will be introducing this unique selection of video-material from China at São Paulo’s Cinemateca Brasileira.
Constructing cultural and artistic dialogues across borders is what moves 150 speakers from all over the world to meet at theTransCultural Exchange Conference 2016, Boston University, 25-27 February 2016. Transnational Dialogues will be there with its coordinator, Luigi Galimberti, who is joining the round-table “Bashed on the Head: Global and Local Tensions in the Life of an Artist”.
The exhibition RareKind China (Centre For Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, 5 Feb – 3 Apr 2016) will showcase the diverse visual identities of graffiti and street artists from China and the UK, who have been invited to create original work that responds to the CFCCA’s 30-year history and the international context of street art. Continue reading RareKind China→
During 2015-2016 Transnational Dialogues will conduct an artistic research module on alternative economies, examining its polarities and taking into account different perspectives, geographic regions and imaginaries from China, Brazil and Europe. A team of researchers, artists and designers will confront the contradictions related to the phenomena of collaboration as a promising economic innovation of our time. Continue reading Between Crowds and Empires→
Silvia Dal Dosso, video-maker and researcher on artificial intelligence, speaks about digital breaches and the over-turning of power relations in the use of technology. Silvia is currently developing a new video-project on marginality within the framework of Transnational Dialogues.
This presentation was part of the round-table “Marginal Notes: Where the next rupture will be” with the participation of Silvia Dal Dosso, Luigi Galimberti, Jota Mombaça and Marco Baravalle, which took place within the framework of the event “Brecha Democrática”, Venice, 10-11 October 2015. The full playlist, featuring 14 video-recordings from the day, is accessible here.
L’Europa assume i caratteri di un Impero dal punto di vista geografico e politico: al centro di decisione e comando si oppongono le periferie degli Stati membri del sud del continente... Come per ogni Impero, alle singole contee viene rilasciato un margine di autonomia: agli Stati membri si lascia la traduzione delle disposizioni governamentali all’interno dei propri ordinamenti giuridici, il controllo delle frontiere ed il monopolio della forza...
Così alcuni passaggi dell’intervento di Fabio Mengali, attivista di Padova dei Centri Sociali del Nord-Est, nel quale egli ha tentato di dare un quadro del contemporaneo assetto della governance europea e di definire delle linee guida per la pratica della breccia democratica oggi. Il testo completo è disponibile qui.
Questa presentazione si è tenuta in occasione della tavola rotonda “Democratic Breach Today: Brazil and Europe between crisis and rebellion” con la partecipazione di Giuseppe Cocco, Raul Sanchez, Fabio Mengali (in sostituzione di Marta Canino), con la moderazione di Lorenzo Marsili, all’interno dell’evento “Brecha Democrática”, Venezia, 10-11 ottobre 2015. L’intera registrazione video delle tre sessioni è disponibile qui.
Giuseppe Cocco parla del Brasile e delle sue ingiustizie a partire dalle proteste del giugno 2013, forse la più grande mobilitazione di massa della storia del Brasile, e la cui onda lunga si avverte ancora oggi nell’uscita dalle forme di rappresentazione – dal sindacato al partito – che non rappresentano più le richieste di gran parte del popolo brasiliano e nella creazione di nuove forme di lotta e di vita in ambito urbano.
Questo intervento si è tenuto in occasione della tavola rotonda “Democratic Breach Today: Brazil and Europe between crisis and rebellion” con la partecipazione di Giuseppe Cocco, Raul Sanchez, Fabio Mengali (in sostituzione di Marta Canino), con la moderazione di Lorenzo Marsili, all’interno dell’incontro “Brecha Democrática”, Venezia, 10-11 ottobre 2015. L’intera registrazione video delle tre sessioni è disponibile qui.
“Cantes de ida y vuelta. Tra la primavera e l’autunno. Riflessioni sul 15M in Spagna e il giugno 2013 in Brasile” è un articolo a cura di Giuseppe Cocco e Raúl Sanchez.
MP5 is an Italian artist known for her incisive black and white drawings, illustrations, mural works and video animations. She designed posters for political demonstrations, concerts, theater festivals and she worked on public murals across Europe. Her works span across history, politics and civil rights.
This presentation was part of the round-table “The Aesthetic of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetic” with the participation of Luiz Camillo Osorio, Barbara Szaniecki, Valeria Mancinelli, Massimo Mazzone and MP5, which took place within the framework of the event “Brecha Democrática”, Venice, 10-11 October 2015. The full playlist, featuring 14 video-recordings from the day, is accessible here.
Jota Mombaça, a performance artist, writer and researcher from Natal, talks about the erased memory of colonised bodies and minds that make up Brazil. The presentation is accompanied by images of his performance “The Colonial Wound Still Hurts”. Luigi Galimberti, the interviewer, is coordinator of Transnational Dialogues.
This presentation was part of the round-table “Marginal Notes: Where the next rupture will be” with the participation of Silvia Dal Dosso, Luigi Galimberti, Jota Mombaça and Marco Baravalle, which took place within the framework of the event “Brecha Democrática”, Venice, 10-11 October 2015. The full playlist, featuring 14 video-recordings from the day, is accessible here.
Presentation and selection of video-material from Brazil by Luiz Camillo Osorio, curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, which bore the title “É tanta coisa que nem cabe aqui” (“It is so much that does not fit here”). The reference is, among others, to the richness and depth of the aesthetic of the Brazilian protests in June 2013.
This presentation was part of the round-table “The Aesthetic of Politics and the Politics of Aesthetic” with the participation of Luiz Camillo Osorio, Barbara Szaniecki, Valeria Mancinelli, Massimo Mazzone and MP5, which took place within the framework of the event “Brecha Democrática”, Venice, 10-11 October 2015.
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