On invitation by Independent Curator, Historian and Museologist Patrícia Brito, Njabala Foundation is pleased to announce a collaboration with Black Art Brazil on their second Virtual Artists’ Residency.
This year the Virtual Artistic Residency will explore methods and propositions about the sense of place and belonging through the interpretation of flows and counterflows.
In light of these global phenomena, Flows (in)Flow: Transience will focus on Migration and Memory. “Migration” – the voluntary or involuntary movements of people from one location to another, and “Memory” – visual, auditory, affective.Globally, we witness the forced displacement of thousands of people from their homelands, and locally, we experience the trauma of relocation.
We are trapped in a paradoxical moment in which we witness the growth of religious intolerance and the relationship to (in)difference, at the same time that we experience a desertion of traditional definitions of community and inherent culture. We are also extremely interested in memory formation – both individual and collective.We invite artists to look at the past and understand the present.
What happens to your identity when you lose your place of belonging? What are the memories of home and place that you carry with you? How does collective memory inform a sense of belonging?
Through this residency, we will stimulate conversations about topics of commerce and workflow, language, musical landscapes, informal communities, and anything else that can pertain to displacement.
