Poetic Dialogues – Everybody brings on imagination a city
The show Poetic Dialogues – Everybody brings on imagination a city presents five documentary films from the series Videobrasil Authors Collection, exploring the urban experience through the work of contemporary artists. Clash between cultures, conflict zones, meetings, accidents and social contradictions are discussed in essays, videos, installations and performances by Mau Wal, William Kentridge, Coco Fusco, Akram Zaatari and Olafur Eliason.
The street turns into an open air cinema for the screening of Poetic Dialogues – Everybody brings on imagination a city. The quote by the writer Italo Calvino, from the book Invisible cities, entitles the projection of films on the façade of Instituto Tomie Ohtake. The admission is free and open to the public.
The thought and work process of great contemporary artists on the international scene are central theme of Videobrasil Authors Collection, created in 2000. Each edition, a new director is invited to investigate, with an authorial approach, about an artist work or an artists’ group. They are works that analyze and comment on the production of key Brazilian and international contemporary artists. The collection focused on the south-african William Kentridge, the lebanese Akram Zaatari, the cuban Coco Fusco and Brazilians Rafael França, Chelpa Ferro and Mau Wal (Maurício Dias and Walter Riedweg). The filmmaker Karim Aïnouz signs the latest volume of the series, about Olafur Eliasson’s work.
Poetic Dialogues – Everybody brings on imagination a city
from September 19 to November 14, 2015
Instituto Tomie Ohtake | Av. Faria Lima 201, São Paulo, Brazil
www.institutotomieohtake.org.br
September 19 (Saturday), at 7:30 pm
MAU WAL Translated encounters (52’41”, Brazil, 2002)
invited directors: Fabiana Werneck and Marco Del Fiol
Domingo (26’, Brazil, 2014)
invited director: Karim Aïnouz
Ré
multimedia performance by Mateus Leston
October 3 (Saturday), at 7:30 pm
Certain doubts of William Kentridge (51’18”, Brazil, 2000)
invited director: Alex Gabassi
Coco Fusco: I Like Girls in Uniform (48’31”, Brazil, 2006)
invited director: Wagner Morales
October 17 (Saturday), at 7:30 pm
Akram Zaatari – A Glimpse of One Man's Vision (42’21” Brazil, 2004)
invited director: Alex Gabassi
MAU WAL Translated encounters (52’41”, Brazil, 2002)
invited directors: Fabiana Werneck and Marco Del Fiol
November 14 (Saturday), at 7:30 pm
Certain doubts of William Kentridge (51’18”, Brazil, 2000)
invited director: Alex Gabassi
Domingo (26’, Brazil, 2014)
invited director: Karim Aïnouz