The Memory Project @ São Paulo, 16 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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RareKind China

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

The Adventures in Mount Yu V (From Michel Foucault to Our Glorious Future)

by Tu Pei-Shih (杜珮詩)

玉山迷蹤 之五(從米歇爾.傅柯到我們的美好未來)透過拼貼各種史料、網路資訊、經典名著中的知識圖像與歷史文本影像,組成了一個具個人風格的虛構敘事主體—台灣的殖民史。這些大量且多元的歷史知識影像碎屑,不論出自經典或低解析的網路訊息,皆各自乘載其原有的文本指涉,以及對台灣史作為一大主體的描繪。結合這些影像碎屑以形成歷史敘事,我試圖傳達一項訊息:歷史是知識切片總和後的虛構。另方面,作品也隱喻知識與權力的關係:從影片開頭坐在草皮上思考的米歇爾.傅柯,到出現一群台灣早期頒布的國立編譯館教科書插畫中純真且青春洋溢的男孩女孩在森林中冒險為止,敘事皆朝著過去認知中的理型歷史脈絡發展;然而最後,天真的少男少女突如其來遇見一部軍旅車(藝術家黃榮燦的版畫《恐怖的檢查》中的軍旅車),並在槍戰中犧牲,過往被排除在主流知識價值之外的事件(228事件)便成了影片中的高潮。

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Between Crowds and Empires

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

Digital Ruptures

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.

Europa-impero

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.

 

Un canto di andata e ritorno

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.

 

Every Drop is a Waterfall

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

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

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.