Category Archives: Marginalia

Every Drop is a Waterfall

Marginalia, Videos

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.

The Colonial Wound Still Hurts

Marginalia, Videos

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.

Tanta Coisa / So Much

Marginalia, Videos

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.

Brecha Democrática – Venice, 10-11 October 2015

Marginalia

A series of events taking place at the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, S.a.L.E Docks and Biblioteca di Marghera on 10-11 October 2015 – Organised by Transnational Dialogues, European Alternatives, Universidade Nômade and the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

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The following text is also available in Portuguese and Italian:
A brecha democrática - Venice Biennale_PT
A brecha democrática - Venice Biennale_IT

IT IS SO MUCH THAT IT DOES NOT FIT IN HERE: That is the sentence written in one of a multitude of posters that were occupying the streets during the mass protests of June 2013 in Brazil. The Brazilian insurgence, the Spanish 15-M and the resistances in the margins of Europe and the world do not fit in an exhibition, but the Brazilian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale has opened itself to the multitudes and has allowed the power of these multitudes to break through it. Continue reading Brecha Democrática – Venice, 10-11 October 2015 →

Call for Applications: Video-making

Marginalia, Open Calls

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In 2015 and 2016, Transnational Dialogues will specifically research about the topic of marginality, seen from the duplex perspective of those who find themselves in and struggle to come out of it, and those who expressly look for it in order to escape from an unsatisfying mainstream condition of which they do not share the values. Among the different outputs, we intend to produce a video that reflects on the proposed theme.

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Call for Applications: Researching on Marginality

Marginalia, Open Calls

In 2015 and 2016, Transnational Dialogues will specifically research about the topic of marginality, seen from the duplex perspective of those who find themselves in and struggle to come out of it, and those who expressly look for it in order to escape from an unsatisfying mainstream condition of which they do not share the values. Among the different outputs, one of the more relevant is going to be a publication in English (with subsequent translations in Chinese and Portuguese), consisting of a comparative study of theories, practices and policies around marginality in the artistic and cultural fields across the three regions.

THIS APPLICATION IS NOW CLOSED.
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Afrofuturism

Articles and Reports, Marginalia 
Text written by Azu Nwagbogu for the exhibition Foam X African Artists’ Foundation, 19 May – 16 July 2017, at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Também disponível em português!

“If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.” Genesis Chapter 11 Verse 6

When was the last time you saw a leading African, a black person, in a fictional narrative in which the character is enhanced and inspiring? Perhaps in a comic book, or as James Bond, in a major television series, surely in the movies? While you search, I present you three young global leaders from Africa disrupting this narrative. Mũchiri Njenga, Kadara Enyeasi, and Osborne Macharia are rephrasing our contemporary reality through fictional narratives using lens-based media. Continue reading Afrofuturism →