ARTIST INTERVENTIONS

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Showings

Chauncey -Theater 2 Sat, Apr 1, 2023 1:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Frequências: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora
Film Info
Runtime:75 minutes

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Janaína Oliveira - Frequencies of Kalunga


Kalunga: a concept originating from Bantu cultures with multiple meanings. For some, the line that marks the limits between the worlds of the living and the ancestors, the line of the horizon and of saudade (longing), which divides but also aggregates. It can also be a portal or the core of the vital energy of change, the "force in motion,” to quote the Brazilian musician and scholar Tiganá Santana. In the intervention Frequencies of Kalunga, Janaína Oliveira brings together artistic expressions and reflections in the search for ways to think with cinema about relations between the black diasporas and the African continent.

Yasmina Price

Calling on Toto Bissainthe and Nina Simone, Yasmina Price will present a reflection on Utopian Cinema and the Haitian Revolution, through the errancies of black aesthetics, memorywork and the short film Vole, vole tristesse (2016) by Miryam Charles.

Cauleen Smith

Cauleen Smith will curate an audio experience for listeners.

About Artist Interventions

Our “interventions” are inspired by Tina M. Campt: “Attending to frequency is, at its core, a practice of attunement—an attunement to waves, rhythms, and cycles of return that create new formations and new points of departure” (A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See, 2023). Our distinguished scholars and filmmakers’ Interventions will take fascinating forms from improvisation, performance, presentation of scholarship, personal reflections, film clips, sound clips, stills, multimedia, conversation with other participants and/or the audience, the popular interactive “versus” format where participants take turns playing media, and more. The only limit is their imagination.

The goal is to incite, inspire, and engage the audience to join the organizers and participants—both scholars and filmmakers—in an act of creativity and imagination in response to the films, performances, and theorizations of Afro-Brazilian film, history, and culture. We look forward to collective conversations on contemporary aesthetic practices of the Black diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Each intervention will last approximately 15–20 minutes.