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“Migration and displacement”, “Civil societies of the future”, traces of the colonial history in today’s societies and deal with the
“Democracy”, “Art and science as hybrid forms of knowledge sense of community.
production,” over 50 artists, academics and intellectuals from Among diverse collective exhibitions and residencies, Hupe
different countries of the world will be present. took part at Kunstkvarteret Lofoten residency, in Norway; at
Among them Greatmore House Artstudios in Cape Town; won the prize Prêmio
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, is Full Professor in Anthropology at the CCBB de Arte Contemporânea (2016), where she presented
University of São Paulo and Global Scholar at Princeton. Lilia was the solo show Readings to move the center, and was awarded
fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation (2006/ 2007) and a visiting by IPHAN ‘Prêmio Honra ao Mérito Arte e Patrimônio’, 2014.
professor at Oxford, Leiden, Brown, École des Hautes Études en She is currently artist in residence at Vila Sul, Goethe-Institut
Sciences Sociales and Columbia University. She published several Salvador.
books, such as Retrato em branco e negro (1987), O sol do ARTE!Brasileiros will follow the event and bring the debate essence
Brasil (2008); Lima Barreto. Triste visionário (2017); among them to the public.
three in English: Spectacle of Races (1999); The Emperors beard: D.
Pedro II a tropical king, (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2004), andBrazil: We talked with Katharina Von Ruckteschell, Director of the Goethe

a biography – with Heloisa Starling (Companhia, 2016/ Penguin, Spain Institut São Paulo and also the institution’s regional director in
2016; Farrar Strauss and Giroux and Penguin UK, to be published in South America who pursues, in her work, what she understand is
2018). She was a curator of some exhibitions such as: Nicolas-Antoine the Institute vocation: knowledge exchange.
Taunay: a French translation of the tropics (2008).
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, PhD is an independent art ARTE! There is already a huge job done by the Goethe Institut since South Episodes
curator and biotechnologist. a very complex project involving three continents, South America and Africa
He is founder and director of SAVVY Contemporary historically colonized by Europe. It is a fact that we left from an inequality. How
Berlin and editor-in-chief of SAVVY Journal for critical is it possible to compensate for this disparity in an event like this?
texts on contemporary African art. He is currently guest The idea of the project “Echoes of the South Atlantic” is to look at the
professor in curatorial studies at the Städelschule Frankfurt. triangular relation between Europe, Africa and South America/the
He was curator-at-large for documenta 14, and is a guest curator of Caribbean from various perspectives. Of course there is the historic
the 2018 Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal. one. From the start it was Europe to force the relations between the
Elisa Larkin Nascimento PhD in psychology at the University of São continents in the North and the South to be unequal and dependent
Paulo as well as Master of Arts at the University of Buffalo (USA). from each other, by coloizing them. Slavery and other economic
Director of the IPEAFRO-Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Afro excavations deepened the inequality and dependencies. Even the
Brasileiro s, (Afro Brazilian Research and Studies Institute) dedicated political independencies that where achieved in both continents
to the guard, preservation and dissemination of documentary and couldn’t up to now change it – up to now. The world and its order
museum collection of Abdias Nascimento, as a basis for educational changes significantly. The “South” starts to emancipate from the
and cultural activities in relation to the African heritage in the “North”, boundaries that evolved forcefully by slavery now start to
diaspora. The seminar aims to introduce to colleagues a little of the tighten through common cultural roots but also by mutual visions
contents of this collection and exchange ideas about the gravity of for the future. The inequality might still exist. But how long will this
the genocide of black Brazilian, denounced by Abdias do Nascimento be and to which extent will a still quite ignorant Europe be able take
40 years ago. part in this triangular relation?
Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr an Distinguished and Presidential Professor Inviting scholars, intellectuals, scientists and artists the three
of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City continents that deal with these issues, to come together and
University of New York, Robert Fitzgerald Reid-Pharr holds a Ph.D. exchange their views on a common ground, might be a starting
in American Studies and an M.A. in African American Studies from point to look at the possibilities for the future.
Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before coming to the Graduate The previous project, Episodio Museal had a clear goal: to meet directors of
Center he was an assistant and associate professor of English at museums and curators to think new practices in the same geographical axis.
the Johns Hopkins University. What are the main agents that will take part of this project now? And with what
Ana Hupe, Brazilian artist, dedicates herself to build a contra- purpose. Which is the field intended to be emulated this time?
memory of the colonial archive, addressing immigration movements The “conference” so to say, tries to trigger and support projects
and exercising decolonization practices. She holds a PhD in Fine of research, art or literature that deal with the issue of the “South
Arts by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGAV-UFRJ) and is Atlantic”. “South Atlantic” stands for a relationship between
currently based in Berlin, where she studied with artist Hito Steyerl continents that in the past where oppressive and violent, today is
at Universität der Künste. tense and problematic and tomorrow might be even worse than the
Her most recent projects are A lot of future for one single memory, past or the present. But it might also be much better. The project
solo show presented at Fundaj (Joaquim Nabuco Foundation), “Episodes of the South” including the “Museal Episode” where based
Recife, curated by Moacir dos Anjos after a two months residency; on the thesis that looking at things from different perspectives
and Malungas, exhibition that happened simultaneously at Mario make them more clear and helps to find new ways into the future.
Kreuzberg Gallery, Berlin and at Paço das Artes, Sound and Image The “conference” will bring together these different perspectives
Museum, São Paulo. Both research-based projects question the and disciplines and formats only to discuss the question how and

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