During its last Residency, Transnational Dialogues recorded the voices of Brazilian artists and political activists. They answer about the role of the margins in the formation of artistic and political practices. This unmediated commentary originates in the current political turbulence that is affecting Brazil, as well as other countries throughout Latin America. Continue reading Voices from Brazil: Making art in troubled times
Transnational Dialogues is now considering proposals from candidates from Brazil that intend to carry out a research period or to realise a project in the UK. THE CALL IS NOW CLOSED Continue reading Call for Proposals: Brazil-UK
With the support of Transnational Dialogues, curators Rachel Marsden and Andy Cooke have organised RareKind China, a showcase of the diverse visual identities of graffiti and street artists from China and the UK, who were invited to create original work that responds the international context of street art and to the 30-year history of the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA). Continue reading China-UK Street Art Link
In the midst of the current Brazilian political crisis, we ask how the margins can acquire a new centrality in crafting future alternatives in a moment where existing economic and democratic models seem to be failing us. This latest episode of Talk Real saw the participation of Giuseppe Cocco (political scientist, Rio de Janeiro), Clara Ianni (researcher and artist, São Paulo), Isabela do Lago (artist, Belém) and Jota Mombaça (performer and researcher, Natal). Continue reading Talk Real | Marginalia
“Além de Nós” workshop at Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto e Espacio 945, São Paulo, 10-12 March 2016. Photos by Timo Kreitz. Continue reading “Além de Nós” in Pictures
Entre os anos de 2015 e 2016 o programa Residência Nomádica foi ganhando forma dentro do Transnational Dialogues, e vem sendo realizado na Europa, Brasil e China. Cada residência é caracterizada por um período de investigação acompanhada por atividades artísticas e encontros organizados em parceria com organizações locais. As residências tornaram-se, neste sentido, um “espaço /transnacional temporário de cultura” aberto para a cidade, onde o trabalho de produção e pesquisa é acompanhado por um profundo envolvimento entre a comunidade local e abordagens colaborativas e de co-produção. Continue reading Residência Nomádica Brasil
Reflexões sobre o fenômeno da colaboração e seu surgimento como um modelo promissor de inovação econômica e social de atores sociais da China, Brasil e Europa… Continue reading Workshop “Além de Nós” – São Paulo, 10-12 March 2016
Talk Real é uma plataforma audiovisual para a divulgação de ideias inovadoras e seus agentes, podendo ser organizações ou indivíduos, a iniciativa é da ONG European Alternatives e teve início em 2015. Realizado pela primeira vez em São Paulo em formato inédito por ser aberto à participação do público, e debruçando-se sobre o tema Marginalia esta edição do Talk Real terá lugar no espaço do Outras Palavras no dia 17 de março a partir das 18:45 horas. O time de palestrantes é composto por: Continue reading Talk Real “Marginalia” – São Paulo, 17 March 2016
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.
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Constructing cultural and artistic dialogues across borders is what moves 150 speakers from all over the world to meet at the TransCultural 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”.
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