DÁ FALA

Avec Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck, Luis Camnitzer, Ângela Ferreira, Alfredo Jaar, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Grada Kilomba, Reynier Leyva Novo et Paulo Nazareth*

KADIST invite Mónica de Miranda et Bruno Leitão, fondateurs et directeurs de Hangar, un centre de recherche artistique situé à Graça (Lisbonne) pour une résidence curatoriale et une exposition.

Développée sur trois chapitres, l’exposition Affective Utopia abordera les questions et les défis relatifs à la production de connaissances artistiques et de pratiques curatoriales en regard des tensions et conflits générés par les problématiques Sud/Nord, des divisions géographiques, de l’assimilation culturelle et du besoin urgent de décoloniser les pratiques curatoriales et artistiques. 

Les artistes de l’exposition abordent différentes façons de penser et d’interpréter la notion d’utopie dans l’art contemporain. Le concept d’utopie implique deux notions liées bien que contradictoires : d’une part l’aspiration à un monde meilleur,  d’autre part le fait qu’elle n’existe dans nos imaginaires seulement qu’à travers les fictions inventées par les artistes. Affective Utopia réfléchit à cette ambivalence et pose la question de comment l’art peut être un outil de réflexion critique sur ses propres processus de socialisation et ses liens avec les concepts géographiques affectifs d’appartenance, d’origine et de diaspora.

Inviter une structure artistique en résidence permet d’expérimenter le déplacement de pratiques contextuelles pour offrir de nouvelles perspectives à des discussions ayant lieu à Paris et à l’international.

A Lisbonne, Hangar conçoit ses expositions comme des espaces d’engagement avec le public afin de depasser sa condition de spectateur, à travers des stratégies génératrices de sociabilité. Les fondateurs de Hangar souhaitent délocaliser cette approche à Paris le temps de l’exposition, en proposant un programme de rencontres en dialogue avec le public dans un autre contexte. 

Hangar est à la fois un espace d’exposition, de recherche et de résidences d’artistes. C’est également un centre éducatif qui organise des temps de discussion dans le but d’unifier les lieux géographiques et de stimuler le développement de pratiques artistiques et théoriques. Hangar cherche à développer des projets artistiques interdisciplinaires qui se concentrent sur la ville de Lisbonne en tant que scène centrale pour la culture contemporaine. La programmation artistique est tournée vers les problématiques Sud/Nord prenant comme référence la position spécifique de cette ville, carrefour géographique ainsi qu’historique.

*Les artistes de l’exposition à KADIST ont tous travaillé avec Hangar à Lisbonne à travers des résidences, des conférences ou des expositions.

With: Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck, Luis Camnitzer, Ângela Ferreira, Alfredo Jaar, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Grada Kilomba, Reynier Leyva Novo
and Paulo Nazareth*

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KADIST invites Mónica de Miranda and Bruno Leitão, founders and directors of Hangar, an artistic research center located in Graça, Lisbon, for an art-space residency and exhibition.

Developed over three chapters, the exhibition Affective Utopia will approach questions and challenges relative to the production of knowledge in the arts and curatorial practices: a reflection on the tensions and conflicts generated by South/North issues, geographic divisions, cultural assimilation and the urgent need for decolonization of thought in curatorial processes and artistic production.

The artists in this exhibition discuss the different ways of thinking and performing utopia in contemporary art from a broad range of angles. The concept of utopia entails two related but contradictory perceptions: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgement that its form may only ever live in our imaginations through the artists’ fictional reconstructions of reality. Affective Utopia reflects this general ambivalence, but it also poses the question of how art can be a tool for critical reflection of one’s own socialization process and to one´s connections to affective geographic concepts of belonging, origin and diaspora.

The purpose of the art-space residency is to experiment with delocalizing context relevant practices in order to offer new perspectives on discussions happening in Paris, and internationally. 

Hangar in Lisbon produces exhibitions as spaces of action for public engagement beyond spectatorship and through strategies that produce sociality. 

Delocalized at KADIST during the time of this exhibition, Bruno Leitão and Mónica de Miranda’s project will reframe this approach towards public engagement in another context and towards another audience. 

Hangar is comprised of a center of exhibitions, artistic residencies, and artistic studies. It is also a center of education, talks and conversations that unify geographic locations and stimulate the development of artistic and theoretical practices. It seeks to organize and produce the development of artistic inter-disciplinary projects and visual arts projects that focus on Lisbon as a central backdrop for contemporary culture. Hangar’s artistic program is focused on South/North problematics, taking from the specific position that Lisbon occupies both geographically as well historically.

*The artists in the exhibition have all worked with Hangar in Lisbon through residencies, talks or exhibitions.

Vernissage : le vendredi 8 février 2019
Opening on Friday, February 8, 2019Les chapitres / chapters:
1 — Concrete Utopia 
09.02 — 03.03 Avec / with Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck, Ângela Ferreira, Kiluanji Kia Henda
2 —Art as a Critical Tool 07.03 — 24.03 Avec / with Luis Camnitzer, Alfredo Jaar,Reynier Leyva Novo
3 —The Body as a Political Tool
04.04 — 21.04 Avec / with Grada Kilomba andPaulo NazarethLes événements / events*:26.02 Conférence de / talk by Sammy Baloji & Filip De Boeck
07.03 Conférence de / talk by Luis Camnitzer
12.04 Grada Kilomba en conversation avec / in conversationwith Paul Goodwin
*Tous les événements liés à l’exposition auront lieu à 19h au bureau de KADIST. / All associated events will take place at 7 pm, at the KADIST office.

VISIT KADIST, PARIS 19bis/21 rue des Trois Frères 75018 +33 1 42 51 83 49

SAMMY BALOJI e FILIP DE BOECK, foto de Dieter TelemansSammy Baloji e Filip De Boeck falarão do seu livro Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016) e da sua exposição Urban Now: City Life in Congo, que estará patente em Lisboa a partir do final de Março (Galeria Av. da Índia).

Sammy Baloji (b. 1978, Lubumbashi, República Democrática do Congo) é um artista visual que vive entre Bruxelas e Lubumbashi. É o co-fundador da Bienal de Lubumbashi, organizada por Picha Asbl. Reconhecido internacionalmente, o trabalho de Baloji tem sido exibido em espaços relevantes, tais como o Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; Muzee, Ostend; the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren; Museum for African Art, Nova Iorque; WIELS, Bruxelas; Bienal de Arte de Veneza, Veneza; e Documenta 2017, Kassel e Atenas. Publicações recentes incluem Mémoire/Kolwezi (2014), Hunting and Collecting (2016), e Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016, com Filip De Boeck).

Filip De Boeck (b. 1961, Antuérpia, Bélgica) é Professor de Antropologia no Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) da Universidade Católica de Lovaina, Bélgica. As suas publicações incluem Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City (2004, com a fotógrafa Marie-Francoise Plissant), e mais recentemente Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016, com Sammy Baloji). De Boeck também realizou Cemetery State (2010), um documentário sobre um cemitério de Kinshasa, e produziu várias exposições. A sua exposição Kinshasa: Imaginary City(2014), co-comissariada com Koen Van Synghel para o pavilhão belga da 9ª Bienal de Arquitectura de Veneza, recebeu um Leão de Ouro.

Em 2016, De Boeck e Baloji apresentaram a exposição Urban Now: City Life in Congo no WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Bruxelas, em colaboração com a Open Society (Nova Iorque) e The Power Plant (Toronto). A 23 de Março de 2018, a exposição inaugura na Galeria Avenida da Índia/EGEAC (Lisboa).

Data: 24 de Março de 2018

Local: Hangar – Centro de Investigação Artística

Horário: 18:00 – 20:00

Moderação: Ana Balona de Oliveira

Organização:

Ana Balona de Oliveira, Pensando a Partir do Sul: Comparando Histórias Pós-Coloniais e Identidades Diaspóricas através de Práticas e Espaços Artísticos, Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation, CASt-IHA-FCSH-NOVA e Visual Culture, Migration, Globalization and Decolonization, CITCOM-CEC-FLUL.

Mónica de Miranda, Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity, CITCOM-CEC-FLUL.

Apoio: DG Artes, FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, IHA-FCSH-NOVA, CEC-FLUL.

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URBAN REALIGNMENTS: ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARTISTIC VENTURES INTO CONGO’S CITYSCAPES

TALK WITH SAMMY BALOJI AND FILIP DE BOECK

Date: March, 24

Venue: Hangar – Artistic Research Centre, Lisbon

Schedule: 6 pm – 8 pm

Sammy Baloji and Filip De Boeck will discuss their book Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016) and their exhibition Urban Now: City Life in Congo, which will be on view in Lisbon from the end of March (Galeria Av. da Índia).

Sammy Baloji (b. 1978 Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a visual artist based in Brussels and Lubumbashi. He is the co-founder of the Lubumbashi Biennial organized by Picha Asbl. Internationally renowned, Baloji’s work has been exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; Muzee, Ostend; the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren; Museum for African Art, New York; WIELS, Brussels; the Venice Art Biennial, Venice; and Documenta 2017, Kassel and Athens. Recent book publications include Mémoire/Kolwezi (2014), Hunting and Collecting (2016), and Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016, with Filip De Boeck).

Filip De Boeck (b. 1961, Antwerp, Belgium) is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His book publications include Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City (2004, with photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart), and most recently Suturing the City: Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016, with Sammy Baloji). De Boeck also directed Cemetery State (2010), a documentary about a Kinshasa graveyard, and produced several exhibitions. His exhibition Kinshasa: Imaginary City (2014), co-curated with Koen Van Synghel for the Belgian Pavillion at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennial, was awarded a Golden Lion.

In 2016, De Boeck and Baloji presented the exhibition Urban Now: City Life in Congo at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, in collaboration with the Open Society (New York) and The Power Plant (Toronto). On March 23 2018, the exhibition will open at Galeria Av. da Índia/EGEAC (Lisbon).

Chair: Ana Balona de Oliveira

Organization:

Ana Balona de Oliveira, Thinking from the South: Comparing Post-Colonial Histories and Diasporic Identities through Artistic Practices and Spaces, Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Art: Identities and Representation, CASt-IHA-FCSH-NOVA and Visual Culture, Migration, Globalization and Decolonization, CITCOM-CEC-FLUL.

Mónica de Miranda, Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity, CITCOM-CEC-FLUL.

Support: DG Artes, FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, IHA-FCSH-NOVA, CEC-FLUL