Image courtesy of Associação Cultural Videobrasil.
22nd Bienal Sesc Videobrasil
October 2023
Memory is an editing station
Open Call: August 1, 2022 – September 2, 2022
https://site.videobrasil.org.br
Curated by the Raphael Fonseca, from Brazil, and Renée Akitelek Mboya, from Kenya, the 22nd edition of the Biennial, which will take place in October 2023 at Sesc 24 de Maio, has extended its international open call for artists to September 16, 2022.
The event reaches its 22nd edition with the title “Memory is an editing station” – a sentence taken from a poem by Waly Salomão (1943–2003), an unavoidable name in Brazilian culture since the 1960s. Far beyond the particular “editing stations,” the 22nd Bienal seeks to select works that address collective memories, the dynamic of remembrance and forgetfulness that build historical and social narratives, related to peoples, nations and geographic regions.
The Biennial also marks the 40th anniversary of Videobrasil, initially an event dedicated to video, but which over the decades expanded to the most varied artistic media. Founder and artistic director of Videobrasil, Solange Farkas calls attention to the context in which the open call for artists is being held, after two and a half years of a pandemic that has left millions dead around the globe—and which will certainly exert some influence on the artworks presented. The idea of survival, therefore, emerges as an essential desire, as well as the need to look at such a recent and already traumatic past.
The Biennial will receive submissions of works in any format and language, from artists and/or collectives born and/or based in countries of the Global South, from the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), or residing in them for at least five years, as well as indigenous artists of any nationality.
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