MEDIATECA ONSHORE
MEDIATECA ONSHORE
The MEDIATECA ONSHORE is an arts and culture platform in a socially and ecologically sensitive area in Guinea-Bissau. As a nomade venue, it hosts workshops, seminars, productions and community gatherings. As a network, it acts as a hub for transferring local, South-South and mundializing knowledge through performing arts, moving image and digital media. Its purpose is to share practices in the fields of art, agroecology, traditional knowledge as contribution to social, economical and environmental justice.
GATHERINGS
#6 SURVIVANCE - NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL
In the flow of the deliberately imprecise term cornerstoned by Gerald Vizenor, this workshop will convoke the term Survivance as “an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry”. This gathering will bring together the Cadjigue, Geba Filmes and the Karrabing Film Collective in an exchange of practices and living conditions,
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In the flow of the deliberately imprecise term cornerstoned by Gerald Vizenor, this workshop will convoke the term Survivance as “an active sense of presence, the continuance of native stories, not a mere reaction, or a survivable name. Native survivance stories are renunciations of dominance, tragedy and victimry”. This gathering will bring together the Cadjigue, Geba Filmes and the Karrabing Film Collective in an exchange of practices and living conditions,
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6-14 July 2020
Porto, Bissau & Bubaque
︎ p o s t p o n e d
In collaboration with Karrabing Film Collective, The New Alphabet School, HKW - Haus der Kulture der Welt and Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica do Porto
Porto, Bissau & Bubaque
︎ p o s t p o n e d
In collaboration with Karrabing Film Collective, The New Alphabet School, HKW - Haus der Kulture der Welt and Escola das Artes, Universidade Católica do Porto
MILITANT EDUCATION
Book presentation and workshop with Sónia Vaz Borges
Book presentation and lecture with author and researcher Sónia Vaz Borges. Her book Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978, brings to light the educational project developed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) during the period of the armed liberation struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Guinea Bissau (1963-1974)
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Book presentation and workshop with Sónia Vaz Borges
Book presentation and lecture with author and researcher Sónia Vaz Borges. Her book Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978, brings to light the educational project developed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) during the period of the armed liberation struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Guinea Bissau (1963-1974)
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16-17 May 2020
INCA, Bissau
In collaboration with HFaI - Harun Farocki Institut and INCA
INCA, Bissau
︎ p o s t p o n e d
In collaboration with HFaI - Harun Farocki Institut and INCA
NATURAL BUILDING LAB
workshop
A workshop was planned to collectively imagine and plan the MEDIATECA ONSHORE building and residential quarters on Bubaque Island. This was in collaboration with Miriam Attalah and Katerina Mareckova from the Natural Building Lab of the Technische Universität Berlin
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workshop
A workshop was planned to collectively imagine and plan the MEDIATECA ONSHORE building and residential quarters on Bubaque Island. This was in collaboration with Miriam Attalah and Katerina Mareckova from the Natural Building Lab of the Technische Universität Berlin
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14 Mar-3 Apr 2020
Bubaque
Organized by elsehere and Geba Filmes
In collaboration with Natural Building Lab, Ajuda Heißt Hilfe e.V. and Hering - Stiftung für Natur und Mensch
Bubaque
︎ p o s t p o n e d
Organized by elsehere and Geba Filmes
In collaboration with Natural Building Lab, Ajuda Heißt Hilfe e.V. and Hering - Stiftung für Natur und Mensch
6TH BIENNALE DE LUBUMBASHI BIENIAL:
Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line
A performative version of the ongoing science fiction project Tchon Tchoma on issues of restitution and migration prepared for the Biennial of Lubumbashi that due to techno-animist related issues couldn’t be fully accomplished as imagined by Milena Iocha from Cadjigue, Marinho Pina and Filipa César.
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Future Genealogies, Tales From The Equatorial Line
A performative version of the ongoing science fiction project Tchon Tchoma on issues of restitution and migration prepared for the Biennial of Lubumbashi that due to techno-animist related issues couldn’t be fully accomplished as imagined by Milena Iocha from Cadjigue, Marinho Pina and Filipa César.
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MANDALLA
seminar and workshop with Ana Lira
This seminar was dedicated to share the experiences of reconstruction of the Brazilian semiarid, in dialogue with the daily experimentation of agroecology as retold by Ana Lira through her experiences as a photographer.
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seminar and workshop with Ana Lira
This seminar was dedicated to share the experiences of reconstruction of the Brazilian semiarid, in dialogue with the daily experimentation of agroecology as retold by Ana Lira through her experiences as a photographer.
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21-27 Sep 2019
Casa do Ambiente Bubaque
In collaboration with IBAP and The Social Justice Institute, The University of British Colombia
Casa do Ambiente Bubaque
In collaboration with IBAP and The Social Justice Institute, The University of British Colombia
THE TIME (S) OF CONTEMPORAENITY 2: Decolonizing the Future
Seminar
The tutor Claire Bishop and Nuno Crespo curated "The Time (s) of Contemporaneity 2: Decolonizing the Future" to bring together artists and intellectuals to debate the relationship between art, ethnicity, institutions, and the legacy of colonialism.
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Seminar
The tutor Claire Bishop and Nuno Crespo curated "The Time (s) of Contemporaneity 2: Decolonizing the Future" to bring together artists and intellectuals to debate the relationship between art, ethnicity, institutions, and the legacy of colonialism.
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WELL CONSTRUCTION
Documentation and workshop with Sanha João Correia
Over one month, Cadjigue documented all the steps of the construction of a traditional well for agriculture, on the field used by the women’s group No Djunta Mon.
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Documentation and workshop with Sanha João Correia
Over one month, Cadjigue documented all the steps of the construction of a traditional well for agriculture, on the field used by the women’s group No Djunta Mon.
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BAS DI MANGU
Screening and public discussion
During the V Lusophone Congress of Environmental Education, Cadjigue and Geba Filmes programmed an open-air cinema screening addressing issues of education, collectivism, tradition, environmental protection and militancy.
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Screening and public discussion
During the V Lusophone Congress of Environmental Education, Cadjigue and Geba Filmes programmed an open-air cinema screening addressing issues of education, collectivism, tradition, environmental protection and militancy.
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TCHON TCHOMA (SOIL CALLING)
workshop
Statues Also Die, the anti-colonial film/pamphlet from 1953 by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet, is one of the first Western cinematic statements against the core of colonial appropriation and extraction of the resources.
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workshop
Statues Also Die, the anti-colonial film/pamphlet from 1953 by Alain Resnais, Chris Marker and Ghislain Cloquet, is one of the first Western cinematic statements against the core of colonial appropriation and extraction of the resources.
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AFIELD Fellowship
2018 AFIELD Fellowship was awarded to Filipa César and Sana N’Hada for their project MEDIATECA ONSHORE based in Bubaque, Guinea-Bissau developed in dialogue with the local association Cadjigue.
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2018 AFIELD Fellowship was awarded to Filipa César and Sana N’Hada for their project MEDIATECA ONSHORE based in Bubaque, Guinea-Bissau developed in dialogue with the local association Cadjigue.
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2018
AFIELD - Council
2nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY CADJIGUE
In the 2nd General Assembly of Cadjigue, Sana na N’Hada and Filipa César discussed, along with the members of the collective, the concept, various forms of practices to realise and purposes of the MEDIATECA ONSHORE.
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In the 2nd General Assembly of Cadjigue, Sana na N’Hada and Filipa César discussed, along with the members of the collective, the concept, various forms of practices to realise and purposes of the MEDIATECA ONSHORE.
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