Rethinking Aesthetics of Colony

Sweet Potato, 2019 - Illustration by Terroristas del Amor

Platform for studies on translation and political imagination of the diaspora. My practices with a curatorial approach. Through meetings held in person and online throughout 2019 and 2020, participants conducted studies and research that led to translations of texts by black diaspora authors, drawings, and interviews. The platform is a collaborative process and has been a factor in the interweaving of different actions and works, encompassing fields of political, social, and ethical-aesthetic action. Rethinking Aesthetics of Colony has had three manifestations so far: the eponymous artistic residency held in Johannesburg, South Africa; the performance 2021 Spell to Become Invisible and film 2021: carta à leitora preta do fim dos tempos; and the study group 2021: Sweet potato, focused on researching processes of rooting and uprooting and how they interact with Afro-diasporic positions in contemporary times.

Special thanks to the independent space Not Get Organized that hosted the performance 2021 Spell to Become Invisible.

Photo: Caroline Lima 2021 Spell to become invisible, Performance Series with Jota Mombaça. Not Get Organized, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2019.

What else can be done?

Photo: Levi Fanan/ Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 2021 Spell to become invisible - Performance Series with Jota Mombaça, 2019.

Direction: muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi

Executive Production: Thayná Mallmann
Collaboration: Denise Ferreira da Silva and Jota Mombaça
Resident artists and researchers: Jess Oliveira (2019/2020), Caroline Lima (2019), Aline Furtado (2020) and Yhuri Cruz (2020)

Between South Africa, Brazil, and Europe

This project was commissioned by the Goethe-Institut São Paulo, Brazil, within the framework of South Atlantic Echoes.

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