{"id":8383,"date":"2017-09-08T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:13:08","slug":"grada-kilomba-conversa-artista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/grada-kilomba-conversa-artista\/","title":{"rendered":"GRADA KILOMBA | Artist talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Mem\u00f3rias, Resgates e Riscos<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Moderator:<\/strong> Manuela Ribeiro Sanches (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa)<\/p>\n

Organized by:<\/strong> M\u00f3nica de Miranda<\/p>\n

Date: <\/strong>November 3rd, 2017 Friday, 19h<\/p>\n

Address:<\/strong>\u00a0Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12 \u2013 Gra\u00e7a.<\/p>\n

ENTRADA LIVRE[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”8478″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”DETAILS” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][vc_column_text]Hangar in partnership with the publishing house Orfeu Negro and the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon is organizing a public talk with the artist Grada Kilomba moderated by Manuela Ribeiro Sanches. The artist will talk about her artistic practice and her work, highlighting the book “Plantation Memories, Episodes of Daily Racism,” and video-documentation of the scenic reading of episodes that explore everyday racism in the form of psychoanalytic histories linking post-colonial and the lyrical. The combination of these two words, planting and memories, describes racism as not only the re-emergence of a colonial past, but also as a traumatic reality.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Biographies<\/h5>\n

Grada Kilomba<\/strong> is a Portuguese interdisciplinary artist and writer living in Berlin. Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonisation of knowledge and narrative: \u2019who can speak?\u2019 \u2018what can we speak about?\u2019 and \u2018what happens when we speak?\u2019 Are three constant questions in Kilomba\u2019s body of work. She has been exhibiting and performing her work internationally at renown venues, such as Documenta 14 in Kassel, 32. Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo 2016, Rauma Biennal Balticum 2016, Art Basel, Cape Town Art Fair, Transmediale, Secession Museum in Vienna, Bozar Museum in Brussels, Maritime Museum in London, SAVYY Contemporary in Berlin, Wits Theatre in Johannesburg, Theatre M\u00fcncher Kammerspiel in Munich, Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, Palace of Arts in Belo Horizonte, among others. Grada is best known for her subversive writing and her unconventional use of artistic practices, in which she \u2018gives body, voice and image to her own writings\u2019, and brings texts into performance \u2013 using a variety of formats from video installations, to staged readings, to performances, text collage, and sound installations. In her work, Kilomba intentionally creates a hybrid space between the academic and artistic languages, and storytelling <\/em>is central to her decolonial practices.\u2028In 2011, she was awarded as one of \u201cThe Most Inspirational Black Women in Europe\u201d by the BWIE, and in 2013, she was named a \u201cWoman of Excellence\u201d by the Sonne Magazine.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/gradakilomba.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Manuela Ribeiro Sanches <\/strong>taught at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, from 1981 to 2016. Having obtained her PhD with a dissertation on the traveller and revolutionary Georg Forste, her interest in travel literature and related topics, such as the epistemologies that sustain the subjective processes of perceiving and narrating the described objects, led her to broaden her research to the field of the history of anthropology, which she articulated with a cultural studies approach from a postcolonial perspective. Having taught and researched on the effects, until the present, of the processes of (de)colonisation on a cultural and political level, and widely published on these issues, more recently, she became interested in the transnational processes that also marked nationalist anti-colonial movements. Her research interests also include African film, questions of migration and racism in Europe from a compared perspective. Recent publications: Europe in Black and White: Immigration, Race, and Identity in the \u201cOld Continent\u201d <\/em>(Intellect, 2011) and Malhas que os impe\u0301rios tecem. Textos anti- coloniais, contextos po\u0301s-coloniais\u2019<\/em> (Edic\u0327o\u0303es 70, 2011). She is now editing a collection of essays on Cabral, C\u00e9saire and Du Bois due 2018.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”About PLANTATION MEMORIES” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][vc_column_text]Grada Kilomba’s book ‘Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism’ has exposed the violence and trauma of racism through its incisive language and profound writing. This staged reading is a compilation of episodes exploring everyday racism in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. It offers a strong and moving insight into the experience of racism, alienation, and transformation, through the different characters.”
\nTheater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Other participations by the artist in Lisbon:” font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_separator color=”black”][vc_column_text]GALERIA AVENIDA DA \u00cdNDIA
\nTHE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE
\n<\/strong>Solo Exhibition
\nCurated: Gabi Ngcobo
\nCreative Production: Moses Leo
\nOctober 27, 2017 to March 4, 2018<\/strong>
\nOpening October 2017, 6pm<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Free entrance
\nAvenida da \u00cdndia, 170 – Bel\u00e9m<\/a> – 1400-207 LISBOA<\/a>
\nwww.egeac.pt<\/a>
\nwww.facebook.com\/galeriasmunicipaislisboa<\/a>
\nwww.instagram.com\/galeriasmunicipais<\/a><\/p>\n

TEATRO MARIA MATOS<\/strong>
\nTalk with Grada Kilomba e Carla Fernandes
\nPractices of decolonization: a talk from the work of Grada Kilomba
\nOctober \u00a06.30 pm.
\nAvenida Frei Miguel Contreiras, 52
\nwww.teatromariamatos.pt<\/a><\/p>\n

MAAT – MUSEU DE ARTE, ARQUITETURA E TECNOLOGIA
\nSECRETS TO TELL
\n<\/strong>Solo Exhibition
\nCurated by In\u00eas Grosso
\nPROJECT ROOM
\nNovember 8,2017 to February 5, 2018
\nOpening November 7, 7pm
\nAv. Bras\u00edlia | Central Tejo, Bel\u00e9m
\nwww.maat.pt<\/a>
\nwww.facebook.com\/pg\/maatmuseum<\/a>
\n<\/u>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Scientific coordination and organized by M\u00f3nica de Miranda
\nThis project is part of the project \u00a0Post-Archive<\/a>:\u00a0Politics of Memory, Place and Identity, CITCOM-CEC-FLUL
\nThis project was produced with national funding from the FCT-Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P. under the project UIDB\/00509\/2020.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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