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The same instability, that left Maria do Rosário at the mercy of INSTITUTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | PAGES 72 TO 75
market tides, affects the majority of contemporary women artists.
With an exhibition in New York and a retrospective scheduled for SO MUCH SEA
December also in Pinacoteca in São Paulo (institution where far
more feminist programming takes place in 2018), Rosana Paulino THE GOETHE INSTITUTE IN BRAZIL PREPARE TO REALIZE SOUTH
points out that for years had her work – based on her experiences ATLANTIC ECHOES CONFERENCE. IT WILL BE IN SALVADOR, BAHIA
and by black women- more recognized abroad than in the country. FROM APRIL 23 TO 25
She has received several invitations to establish residence outside
and that only remained by stubbornness. “I decided to stay BY PATRICIA ROUSSEAUX
because I thought Brazilian scene needed discussions like the
one I proposed. And I confess that I do not regret this choice. It IN 2015, the Goethe Institute launched the project South Episodes,
is very good, surprising even, view the production that’s coming promoting during three years a series of debates, researches,
around. I didn’t think I’d see this in life. And of course this reflects exchange programmes, artistic productions and international
in my production when I choose to discuss topics that brazilian meetings, whose main focus was the decolonisation of thinking.
society always swept under the carpet, as the marks left by slavery Artists, curators, academics and various cultural players, mainly
in the country, “she says. from Latin America, Asia and Africa, discussed the “non-conformity”
The artist believes that this greater openness stems from the urgent with the colonial history, the need to discuss the existence or not
character of the issues with which it works and to a greater freedom of a global art history and which could be the paths of knowledge
of choice of the path to be followed. “We have a larger aperture acquisition and mediation.
to other ways of thinking and produce art,” she says. This change Several meetings were held. The Museal Episode, for instance,
stems from multiple factors, such as increased political and social allowed in 2016 and 2017, that Museum Directors from different
consciousness, the cooling of formalism as single path and the continents gathering in Salvador, Brazil, Santa Cruz and La Paz in
internationalization of production. “You can’t ignore this new global Bolivia and Johannesburg , South Africa to exchange ideas about
posture, you can’t pretend it doesn’t exist, with the risk of getting the future of museums.
stucked in the 20th century when the rest of the world has already All events, although leaving from different issues were permeated
entered the 21st,” notes. by the intention of thinking of the South, “from it self”.
This historic mismatch, the need to continue the mobilization started In the words of Indian anthropologist, Arjun Appadurai “instead of
decades ago, is something also raised by Josely Carvalho, whose thinking about a theory of the South that raises traditional ways of
exhibition “Diário de Cheiros – Teto de vidro”, is one of the highlights thinking from the North, a ‘ South ‘ theory that will lead to another
of the season in the MAC museum. The artist, that moved out to U.S. architecture of global culture”. (ARTE!Brasileiros # 36)
after the brazilian military coup and lives in New York since the 70’s, Now, from April 2018, Goethe will give the follow up to it’s cultural
where she is engaged in contemporary art’s feminist movement, investment and promotes the “ECHOES OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC
said she is “astounded that we’re talking about the same thing as CONFERENCE , about the future of transatlantic relations of
in the 80’s”. Uncomfortable by the fact that she was long labeled the South”
“feminist” in Brazil, she believes we live in a propitious moment to The Conference will address from different perspectives, multi-
destabilize the self-indulgence. And that today there are various disciplinary, multi - space and multi - temporary, the future of
weapons for this. “Today I am at the smell, but this is the female transatlantic relations in the South, starting from the base of the
sensibility’smell, is something you don’t expect to decrease. So I role of Europe in the past, present and future.
expect decrease the fight for space, for power, “she says when talking In the definition of the Institute, until 15th century, the Atlantic
about olfactory installations she created for the MAC project. The represented a noticeable border between Africa and Europe on one
exposition” Radical Women”, that Pinacoteca will show on second side and America on the other. With the discovery this borders are
half this year(after a season atthe Brooklyn Museum) is, according brake an begins a history of colonization, enslavement, exploitation,
to her, an initiative that promises to bring out with the intensity and migration and enrichment of Europe. This created an indissoluble
necessity for a fight by a more equitable space, collective and artistic bond between the three continents. As the power relations and
strategies adopted by pioneering artists from 60’s and 70’s and its political relationships change, the interests of exchange between
similarities with the current policies of struggle. the three continents is increasing.
Another way that is gaining strength, and not just in the arts circuit, What is the importance of the Transatlantic Triangle in the 21st
is the union of women around common flags, creating mechanisms century? What kind of position will take Europe on Africa and
for complaint and also effective policies of occupation of space. South America, after having made the role of colonial hegemony-in
CODEM. RED - women’s cooperation network is one of those actions, different nuances-for the past 500 years? How to deal with
which has been bringing together artists from all over Brazil and knowledge and discoveries of the past in relation to future
even from outside. Among its proposals are promoting mutual trajectories?
support and solidarity, creating a large database with the profile of How to determine developments in social, economic, political and
its members and the provision of legal assistance to associates. “In cultural in the respective regions of the world? What stories open
less than two weeks we already have 110 women from every country the way for the future and what cultural strategies and innovations
from : PE, SP, PR, RS, RJ and DF, Brazilian states” says Ana Luisa can improve life on Earth on substantial and sustainable way?
Lima, one of the responsible for the initiative. To present their work and discuss matters as “New historiography”,

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