Even as I child, I can recall that my body was perceived and treated differently from the majority. I understood the dynamics of white and black bodies. My first awareness of being black was when a white child rubbed his finger against my skin, learning that I was not made of chocolate. That’s when [...]
Angel Rueda is head programer of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico – International Showcase of Independent Film, a unique annual event in Spain. Every year, the program brings together the most exciting avant-garde filmmaking from both the past and the current scene, with a focus on expanded cinema in all its forms. (S8) offers [...]
Alena Koroleva day's job is working for the giant doc fest Message to Man, her pet project is a boutique fest of artist's movies co-managed with a friend. She screened a selection of four sparkling creatures from her programming past. She calls them: Evidence of Evidence. Evidence of Evidence investigates traces [...]
Juliana Borrero es escritora, traductora, y profesora de literatura colombiana, residente en Tunja. Su escritura ha sido una exploración en la prosa que pasa del cuento a la escritura desde el cuerpo, e indaga en las posibilidades de la literatura expandida y el performance vinculando posibilidades corporales y performativas, individuales y colectivas del texto literario. [...]
Camilo Constain had his first North American retrospective with Pleasure Dome as part of the program “News from the South” on April 27, 2019. Curated by Mike Hoolboom. While in residency Camilo produce a film called The Garden of Bubbles, a short experimental narrative dealing with intimacy and emancipation. - Thanks [...]
Riaz Mehmood is a multidisciplinary artist who mostly uses video, photography and computer programming as his primary means of expression. Riaz is currently working on a project about the Khudai Khidmatgar movement (translation: “servants of God”, but it also means to serve people selflessly). This social and political movement was started by a Pashtun man known as Ghaffar Khan [...]
Lina Rodríguez Vásquez lives and works in Cali, Colombia. She has a postgraduate degree in Media Arts from the National University of Córdoba, and is currently doing her Master's Degree in Design and Interactive Creation at the University of Caldas. Lina's artistic practice focuses on the aesthetic and historical dimensions of photo and film-based personal and institutional [...]
Park Chan-kook has been engaged in a number of collaborative projects that explore the relations of art and urban environment including Dongdaemun Rooftop Paradise (2013- ), Non Art But Art (2011-12), Urban Guerilla Art Project (2013), Collaborative Squat Project in Han’gang Nodeul Island (2013), Public Art Project in Kwangju (2014) and Milmeori Art School [...]
Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni, a Brazilian duo working with informal economies, food, found objects, and alternative sustaibility models. Date:Wednesday, December 20th,2017 _ Great food and conversation about the thin line that separates humor, food, art, politics, disobedience, and dissemblance. Thanks to all that came, especially to Kadija de Paula [...]
Rehab Nazzal a Palestinian-born multidisciplinary artist based in Canada and Palestine. Saturday, November 11th, 2018 Rehab Nazzal's video, photography and sound works deal with violations of human rights and the violence of war and colonialism. Nazzal’s work has been shown in Canada and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions, including Prefix Institute of Contemporary [...]
