In Madrid: Collective Geopoetics Screening and Artists' Talk

Collective Geopoetics Screening & Artists Talk

Saturday 30 October 5–7pm CEST | Sala Azcona, Cineteca

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This unique screening and artist talk with Contra la Raza [Against Race] Curator and MACBA Director Elvira Dyangani Ose, Sally Fenaux Barleycorn and Heidi Ramírez, moderated by photographer and professor Rubén H. Bermúdez, highlights Spain-based artist collectives through the works of these two artists. Departing from historian Paul Gilroy’s quest to dismantle racialising and marginalising politics, the Contra la Raza [Against Race] project proposes a poetics for an emerging egalitarianism as a catalyst for holistic cosmopolitan democracy.

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Kazimir, Heidi Ramírez, Spain, 2018, 1’, DCP

‘I like to talk about my feelings. And —sometimes— I feel like art. Not exactly like “a beautiful masterpie- ce that needs to be exposed bla bla” more like this smallest meaning of art, the embryonic part, almost monstrous, almost indescribable, larval, without form, full of possibilities.’

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Negra, Heidi Ramírez, Spain, 2019, 3’, DCP

Negra has a clear message: Black people are black. We are fed up with euphemisms / labels that hide our skin color, our identity, our history.

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Unburied [Insepulto], Sally Fenaux Barleycorn, Spain, 2019, 6’, DCP

The sunrises looking at the sea are now bathed in the blood of bodies unburied in the waters. Migrant’s hopes and dreams drowned. The Mediterranean Sea no longer sounds of waves crashing against the coast, but of cries of despair asking for help.

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Sally Fenaux Barleycorn is a multicultural and international writer, director, educator and consultant with more than a decade of professional experience in the film industry. Daughter of European and African immigrants, she is mixed race in all the magnitude of the term and does not consider herself from any geographical place, nor does she identify with any nation or flag. She is a citizen of the future. Sally’s work focuses on the great importance that stories have in the construction of social and individual imaginaries, promoting, both with practice and theory, an audiovisual creation that not only represents the world where we live, but the world in which we dream to live. Her resume is made up of work experiences in several positions and all types of productions, from social media content and independent movies, to Hollywood-style mega-productions, and more recently, series for streaming platforms. Fenaux has written and directed a dozen fiction short films independently and for clients, and completed her first feature film in 2021 for Erika Lust Films. Recently, she has also delved into consulting, mentoring and selecting projects for film competitions and festivals, with special emphasis on the urgency of creating a much more diverse and inclusive audiovisual industry. Fenaux is the founder of New Voices New Futures, a collective of filmmakers of the African Diaspora based in Spain and the co-founder of Black Seed Films, an educational online programme with the purpose to equip black creators from anywhere in the world to develop their film and TV ideas.

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Heidi Ramírez (she/they) (Dominican Republic, 1997) are a non-binary photographer and video editor who graduated from Realization of Audiovisuals and Shows (2017) and is currently studying Creative Documentary and Contemporary Photography at Fuga Foto in Barcelona. Among their projects are: the video edition of the audiovisuals of the play BlackFace by the company No es país para negras, and the visuals for the performance Black Guiris by Yvonne Gonzalez. Their work focuses on the self-portrait as a representation mechanism and how the sensorial inhabits other dynamics of audiovisual creation.