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
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
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.
The performance “ROLO” took place within and without the MAXXI Museum in Rome on Sunday 16 November 2014, as part of the final event of Transnational Dialogues 2014.
Many thanks to Emanuela Stramenga (European Alternatives) who guided the performer through the streets of the Flaminio neighborhood, to Irene De Vico and all the curators at MAXXI Museum, and to all the public that confronted the heavy rain of a dark autumn afternoon and followed the performance until the very end.
Wellington Dias is an artist and performer. He is one of the coordinators of Casa Gira Mundo (Lapa, Rio de janeiro) and founder of the Bando Filhotes de Leão (Rio de Janeiro). His project “Tecno Barca”, which took place in the Archipelague of Bailique in the Amazon River, won a Funarte 2011 award and the Premio Samuel Benchimol de Empreendedorismo Consciente 2012.
“Walking out of the Contemporary” is a performance walk guided by Bel Falleiros, Robin Resch and Lorenzo Romito (Stalker Collective).
The walk started from outside the gates of MAXXI Museum, Rome, on Sunday 16 November, 11am, and went on for almost three hours exploring the surrounding of the museum and passing through or by Stadio Flaminio, the Auditorium, the Olympic Village, Corso Francia, Lungotevere Milvio and Ponte della Musica, before going back to its start.
(Map design by Bel Falleiros; source: Google Maps)
It was a walk out of the contemporary, exploring actual territories, ruins, unplanned lots and spontaneous urbanization, which aimed at uncovering a space of potential and at creating new gazes over the city.
More information on Stalker Collective’s artistic practice and on the theoretical background of the walk can be found here in a recent article by Lorenzo Romito, fully and freely available at the following link: http://walkingoutofcontemporary.com/outofcontemporary/
Filming and editing by Giuseppe Bucci. Soundtrack by Acquario Stardust.
What is utopia? What does it mean to change utopia now? Is the role of the artist to destroy the current failing utopias or is it to create new utopias? How one could read the current situation in Hong Kong from a cultural and artistic perspective?
Those and others are the questions that are addressed by Chinese curator Hou Hanru in a dialogue with Luigi Galimberti, coordinator of Transnational Dialogues. The interview was filmed on the occasion of the event “TD @ MAXXI”, Rome, 15-16 November 2014.