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“Could it be that they were foreshadowing a manifesta 13), questions about the responsibility Emphasizing that “the feminist struggle is
time when nature was going to rise up, leave of art in the contemporary world, the search for for the rights over one’s own body”, she also
those screens and invade our lives in the form a collective action, the visibility of marginalized presented works that deal with feminicide,
of viruses, in the form of affection, in the sense knowledge and the need to escape the logic of such as Fatima Pecci Carou, and the various
of turning us inside out, of questioning us , and the “self-centered body” in the arts reinforced a ways of experiencing the body, as in the works
denounce that there is no boundary between conductive line between the different speeches. of Jota Mombaça, Liuska Astete, Janaina
culture and nature, except in our mentalities, First to present, Giunta gave an overview Barros, Lorraine O’Grady or Priscila Resende.
calling for a change in mentality ”. of this year’s edition of the Mercosul Biennial The possibility of restructuring the language
Later, he would explain that “as poets, these (Online Bienal 12), which would take place in the field of gender discussion arose in the
artists were foreshadowing what is happening in person in Porto Alegre and ended up production of Mujeres Públicas, while crucial
in the 21st century; it is not a complaint, an migrating to the virtual environment due questions about memory - and specifically
accusation, but a revelation of what we were to the pandemic. Highlighting the plurality colonial and Afro-Brazilian memory - were
going to live a long time later”. involved in the themes and in the show’s title, discussed in the work of Aline Motta. At this
But he warned the art world: “It is as if the idea Female(s). Visuality, actions and affections, the point in her speech, Giunta recalled a phrase by

of our art biennials, of our galleries, were all in Argentine emphasized the importance of this Rosana Paulino, “that told me something very
the past, overcome by time, by the urgency of diversity being present in the constitution of important related to the theme of this seminar:
a new mentality, of us humans learning to step the biennial curatorial team. In this sense, she in Christian and Catholic traditions, based on
with careful, stepping gently on Earth, deeply emphasized the fundamental role of Fabiana the Bible, God gave nature for men, in Afro-
marked by our footprints, which put us on the Lopez, Dorota Biczel and Igor Simões, who Brazilian religions, man and nature are together ”.
threshold of this Anthropocene”. brought attentive looks to artistic production,
It was around that time that the rain and the especially in Latin America, and also from irelanD, FranCe, anD north aFriCa in
most poetic moment of the seminar began. other countries around the globe. A total of 25 Dialogue
While he affirmed that “the sky will always give countries were represented by more than 70 Continuing a fruitful and diverse series of
us the art of the possible”, a water truck passes artists and collectives. audiovisual productions filmed in different parts
by, as if to remember the destruction of the Rio The term “feminine(s)” - not “feminine”, nor of the globe, the duo Bárbara Wagner (Brazil)
Doce by Samarco, five years ago, and which “feminisms” - represented for Giunta this choice and Benjamin de Burca (Ireland / Germany)
made it necessary to supply it with vehicles for a plurality of points of view, not always only has just debuted, at manifesta 13, in Marseille,
that cover 200 years. km to 300 km to supply from women, believing in the “idea of difference the work One Hundred Steps. The 30-minute

the village with 130 families. as multiplicity and not as separation”. In this film was the subject of the duo’s presentation
And Krenak concluded with Naiara: “When I sense, the word “affection” also took place at the seminar, which also featured a firsthand
questioned the division we make between nature for curatorship, especially at a time of such view of the work. At the virtual seminar, while
and culture, it is a call for people to live more fragility with the pandemic. “And when we were Benjamin showed up with his cell phone at
immersed in nature and in our own experience all isolated, it was very important to ask: how the Marseille Music School, exposing the end
of the body being nature”. are the artists who were about to travel to Porto of the work’s montage, Bárbara spoke from
Alegre and could not go? So, we asked them her home about the film’s production process,
international seminar | day 1 [pages 18 to 22] to record short videos with their cell phones which started in late 2019. Few days after the
for our website, which was very important.
GET AWAY FROM THE This created an archive of affections, a type of seminar, arte!brasileiros also talked on the
phone with Benjamin.
SELF-CENTERED presence of artists at the biennial that we had After works about frevo or brega in Recife, on
SUBJECT; PRODUCE not previously planned. These are some good the Maloya genres in Réunion Island (French
ART IN FRICTION AND things that have happened.” department close to Africa), schlager in Munster
Affection, as Giunta stated in a recent
DIFFERENCE interview with arte!brasileiros, is not (Germany) and rap in Toronto (Canada), the
duo enters the universes of Irish popular
At the second table of the event, Andrea disconnected from struggles, protests and an music (with its harmonicas, chants and taps)
Giunta spoke about the Mercosul Biennial art that calls for social change. “With affection, and North African music with Arab roots in
and Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de
Burca showed firsthand a patch of their powerful revolts were created,” she said. In this Marseille, in the south of France. If, on the
new work, “One Hundred Steps” sense, Giunta presented at the seminar a series one hand, the film deepens the research of
of works that she considers representative of the duo in marginalized musical universes, in
By marCos grinspUm ferraz the themes treated at the biennial, starting a constant dialogue between documentary
with a tapestry by Chiachio & Giannone that and fiction, between what is pop culture or
After a first table focused on looking at presents a scene of integration between man traditional manifestation, on the other hand
environmental issues, indigenous knowledge, and nature, where people and animals are part the film seems to bring new elements to the
the possibility of a “less cold” science, in addition of a same family - “not man as owner, controlling work of Bárbara and Benjamin. One Hundred
to questioning the false dichotomy between nature, but man in nature”. Then, the curator Steps is, for example, the first film that takes
nature and culture, the second presentation presented a photograph of the Argentine place in two different countries and bluntly
brought the debate closer to issues more directly feminist collective Nosotras Proponemos: “We enters European and African colonial history.
linked to artistic production. In the presentations take into account activism, women’s rights, According to Bárbara, the research started
by Andrea Giunta, curator of the 12th Mercosul and also feminines and feminisms as the need with the approval of a publicly funded project
Biennial, and the artist duo Bárbara Wagner and to think again about all relations between the by the Irish Arts Council. Therefore, the first
Benjamin de Burca (currently participating in human and the world”, said. opportunity arose for the duo to develop work in

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