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that historically afflict the Global South. participated in the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, How and respect for nature. It is thus, at least, that
Therefore, together with Gabriel Rodriguez, to talk about things that do not exist one perceives the idea of lumbung, “as an artistic
my co-curator, we also invited artists such Part of the collective was last March and economic model rooted in principles such as
as Nelson Makengo, from Congo, Emo de in São Paulo, at the Casa do Povo, where collectivity, communal sharing of resources and
Medeiros, from Benin, and Heba Y. Amin, held about 10 meetings with 40 people and equal distribution, which is incorporated in all
from Egypt. The works of these three artists groups, from JamaC (Jardim Miriam Arte parts of collaboration and exhibition”, according
have functioned as a kind of connector Club) to Councilwoman Erica Malunguinho, to the description of the show’s website.
for realities often unknown to the Central passing through the Movimento Sem Terra The proposal of sharing and collaboration
American public. and indigenous leader Jerá Guarani. From the materializes, during the creating process of the
list, there is no doubt that the documenta will show, in Kassel, in a space called ruruhaus, a
But even if there is this regional cut, there have a strong activist character. few meters from the Fridericianum, the museum
is a production made within this vast region “We want to create a globally oriented, that was the first place of the documenta, in 1955,
that is also quite diverse. How does this collaborative and interdisciplinary art and culture and has been occupied by it for every five years.
diversity appear in the show? platform that will remain effective beyond the Ruangrupa has now announced a digital and
Yes, it is a very diverse and also very unknown 100 days of documenta fifteen. Our curatorial interactive ruruhaus experience, which can be
production, as it is a very marginalized approach seeks a different kind of collaborative accessed in https://ruruhaus.de. In June it was
and invisible region for the global circuit model of use of resources - in economic terms, possible to answer the question: “What kind of
of contemporary art. This circuit misses but also with regard to ideas, knowledge, living room does a city need?”.
the opportunity to meet a multitude of programs and innovations,” announces In times of social distancing, the question
incredibly interesting and talented artists ruangrupa on the documenta’s website. even sounds utopian, but, after all, it is a good
and, furthermore, misses the chance to There, by the way, are already listed 14 thing that art continues to believe in new
get closer to a phenomenon that is taking invited collectives to this edition, originating worlds and, as seems to be the objective of
place with artists from the altiplano and their from 13 different countries: Germany, Kenya, this documenta, pointing out who is leading
ways of approaching contemporary art from Denmark, Palestine, England, Hungary, Colombia, this movement with solidarity practices.
their own indigeneity - forms that, despite Cuba, Indonesia, Spain, Mali, New Zealand
making terribly profound criticisms, are and Bangladesh. Among them is inland, a artiCle | artistiC ColleCtives [pages 22 and 23]
resolved in highly aesthetic and poetic ways. collaborative agency started in 2009 by the
Diversity also emerges in the exhibition Spanish Fernando García-Dory, which provides a ARTIST COLLECTIVES
from the moment we decided that 70% of the platform for various actors involved in agricultural,
works would be commissioned, that is, new social and cultural production. In 2018, Dory REFLECT THE SPIRIT OF
projects. We carried out previous research participated in the start of the creation of a garden
in order to provide artists with material on the terrace of the Casa do Povo. THE TIME
that culminated in a publication entitled The themes of these collectives are broad and
Paraíso (re)partido, which contains a series diverse, such as Project Art Works, a collective Resulting from the proliferation of
of themes relevant to the context, from of artists and creators based in Hastings, uK. solidarity initiatives in the visual arts in the
historical issues to contemporary issues. They produce and disseminate art supported by current century, important events such
Foreign artists traveled to Guatemala, radical approaches to neurodiversity, rights and as Documenta highlight and enshrine
which resulted in a series of collaborations representation, and are one of five collectives experiences that move away from the idea
that emerged organically not only with local nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize, of the solitary artist

artists, but also with people from other now in 2021. That’s right, for the first time there
areas, from spiritual guides and botanical are five collectives nominated for the award
healers, weavers with waist looms, poets, organized by Tate, which in 2015 had already By faBio Cypriano
filmmakers, forensic archaeologists and awarded a collective, the British Assemble.
lawyers. Ayrson Heráclito, for example, According to Alex Farquharson, director both the ChoiCe oF Five ColleCtives
worked with Wingston González in the of Tate Britain and chairman of the selection as nominees for the Turner Prize, in 2021, and
work Onagulei: Messenger of the ancestors. committee, in an interview with The Guardian, the announcement of 14 collectives as the
Finally, a series of other types of knowledge “the jury selected five notable collectives whose first participants in Documenta 15 indicate
entered the biennale and, together with art, work not only continued during the pandemic an important moment of inflection in artistic
arrived at aesthetic solutions. but became even more relevant as a result.” practice, which reveals the spirit of the time: the
It’s certainly stimulating the harmony between passage of isolation from the called the plastic
*Read the whole interview at bit.Ly/2rcfjrb, in which Tate’s and documenta fifteen’s decisions. artist in his atelier for an action of solidary and
alexia talks about guatemalan artists, indigenous art Another coincidence between the two art sustainable character, which aims at new forms
and the solo shows by paz errázuriz and aníbal lopez. institutions is the Cuban Tania Bruguera, who in of action in the world. Finally.
2019 was responsible for occupying the Turbine In other artistic areas, such as theater,
Biennials | doCumenta [pages 18 to 21] Hall of Tate Modern, and who will participate dance and music, for example, the collective
in documenta fifteen with her collective instar, experience has always been present. In the
KASSEL AIMS Artivismo Hannah Arendt (instar) emerged visual arts, very little, despite several isolated
based in Havana (Cuba). The Instituto de
historical cases. However, since the beginning of
COLLECTIVE as a civic literacy institution in 2015 from an the 21st century, initiatives have been growing
EXPERIENCES IN ART artistic intervention organized by Bruguera, that have not ceased to be mapped in important
where people read and discussed Hannah
exhibitions such as the Panorama of Brazilian
Arendt’s book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Art in 2001, curated by Paulo Reis, Ricardo
The documenta fifteen, scheduled for June for 100 hours. Basbaum and Ricardo Resende, at the São
2022, has already announced 14 groups Since its inception, instar is thought of Paulo Museum of Modern Art (mam-sp).
with community practices as participants as a democratic and horizontal space, where Among the groups selected there were
in the edition; curators also passed decisions are taken by consensus. “We are Atrocidades Maravilhosas, Mico and Clube da
through São Paulo and met with 40 people interested in claiming social justice and rights Lata, who for twenty years had already sought a
or groups sometimes foreign to the Cuban context, such as new form of agency in the artistic scene. Artist
fair wages, a work environment that is favorable
Mônica Nador also participated in that edition
to motherhood, supporting independent of Panorama, with the project Paredes Pinturas,
By faBio Cypriano projects and artists, respect for freedom of the origin of Jamac - Jardim Miriam Arte Clube,
expression and building a project with people which five years later participated in the 27th
the iDea oF the artist isolateD in who think differently, but want to make a country Bienal de São Paulo, in 2006.
his studio has long sounded like an old- for everyone,” the collective says of its work , With general curatorship by Lisette Lagnado,
fashioned image to describe the production on the website of documenta fifteen. the edition, entitled Como Viver Junto, actually
field of contemporary practices, but finally the brought more collectives besides Jamac itself,
documenta, considered the most important ColleCtive riCe barn such as the Argentine Eloisa Cartonera and
exhibition of current art, focuses on collectives One of the concepts that ruangrupa is launching the Chinese Long March Project. Eight years
of activist character as one of its main axes. to account for these collective practices is later, in the 31st edition, a group of curators
After a bold edition in 2017 that divided the lumbung, an Indonesian term for community selected by Charles Esche again focused on
exhibition part into two cities, Athens (Greece) rice barn. It will be used as a guiding principle collectives, such as ruangrupa himself, who now
and Kassel (Germany), under the direction of of the show’s core values and ideas. directs Documenta 15, but also Bolivian Mujeres
Polish Adam Szymczyk, the show now has ahead Nothing more appropriate, after all the Creando, Russian Chto Delat or Argentinean
precisely a collective of artists, ruangrupa, adversity crossed by the planet during the Etcetera and the Brazilian Contrafilé Group.
based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2014, the group pandemic, that art rescues community values It is ironic that this growth of collectives
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