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Schipper mag ik overvaren? (Captain can I cross over?), 2025
HD Video, Single-channel, color, sound, 09:30 

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Para M (To M), 2023
Single channel, video, sound, 11:47 min.

Watch trailer: https://mediakunst.net/professional/#!/artwork/ma-1022470

A woman’s voice passionately addresses the enigmatic figure “M” in a narrative that initially portrays a positive shift as one colonial ruler replaces another. However, the story ultimately exposes the persistent and oppressive nature of the colonial enterprise within an enduring framework.

The initial “M” refers to Maurits in Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, a seventeenth-century governor sent to Brazil as a representative of the Dutch West Indies Company. Despite the prevailing positive perception of this governmental change and idealized views of Maurits’s presence in Brazil, recent research uncovers the dark legacy of his dictatorship. The letter “M” emerges as a symbol branded on the skin of enslaved Africans under his possession.

Through a creative juxtaposition of images featuring women and reappropriated colonial arte-facts in and around Recife,Brazil —an outpost of Dutch occupation—the essay film intricately weaves a poetic letter. It seeks to discern the potential for the subaltern voice to articulate itself. The film powerfully underscores that, while the articulation of truth may demand time, its revelation remains an inevitable prospect.

Read article on Para M by curator and writer Ive Stevenheydens on Mediakunst.net:

This project was mas possible with the generous support of The Mondriaan Fonds, Amarte Fonds and CBK Zuidoost.

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http://www.theoneminutes.org/content/04-about/3-press/for-release-world-at-a-crossroads-open-call-wake-up-call.pdf

World at a Crossroads – Open Call, Wake Up Call is curated by Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson. The series consists of thirteen one-minute films by various artists reflecting on our volatile present and envisioning our future, by merging performance and portrayal and appropriating texts and juxtaposing to still and moving images.

PARTICIPANTS

Minhong Yu
Golrokh Goli Nafisi
Florencia Almiron
Ina Wudtke
Cihad Caner
Mohamed Youssef
María Linares
Monika Gruzite
Vikenti Komitski
Thais F. Guisasola
Emil Freyr Freysson and Björgvin Helgi Möller Pálsson
Patricia Werneck Ribas
Katrin Jónsdottir Hjördisardóttir

SCREENINGS

Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts (CN)
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (NL)
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
Dortmunder U (DE)
East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy, Amsterdam (NL)
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)
Museum Hilversum (NL)
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
WOW, Amsterdam (NL)
Reykjavík International Film Festival (IS)
National gallery of Iceland – Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavík (IS)

https://vimeo.com/191134591

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The syllable “Ia” appears as a root in several words in the Jê language spoken by the kaypó people in Brazil. While images of the suburbs of a Brazilian town is shown, some of these indigenous words are spoken by an anonymous voice, referring to what would be some of the legacy of the colonisation process.

 https://manifesta.org/2016/06/premiere-screening-of-colon-culo-o-conquista-by-dick-verdult-dick-el-demasiado/

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