Proposal for Black Rock Residency in Dakar

 Journey. Quilombo. Relation. 

Re-enacting a safe space where runaway communities once organized themselves outside of the plantations, based on cosmologies (world-views) and forms of socio-political and economic organization that radically differ from capitalism and coloniality. 

+ Performative research into non-Western epistemologies (knowledge systems), liberation and healing practices (in relation to art). 

Done together with transnational communities of artists, thinkers, border dwellers, hip hoppers, Afro-Futurists, and healers, etc. 

And based on marronage and self-definition, informal economies, radical sharing, pluriversality, togetherness, and ways of living in the world where many worlds are possible. 

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Research, traveling and exhibition project realized together with water spirit (and many others). 

Process includes live conversations, recorded materials, embodied knowledge, biennials' hopping, frequent travels, spiritual practices, healing sessions, deep listening, etc. 

Presentation format: 

Currently, my practice involves collabs with many people (on and beyond art sphere) - it is shape-shifting, urgent, improvised, bold and sounds like global bass. I act as a trigger and connector between worlds. I move around a lot, do performative research, activate platforms, organize multi-format events, get involved in rituals, liberation and healing practices as a way of delinking from power matrix. 

I tend to work in an informal way, usually connected to ''Global South'', but with relations with the West (and the world), and don't like to set up things much in advance. I prefer openness, relationality, approaches and methods that go beyond Western knowledge systems and ways of being in the world. 

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I have experience in teaching as visiting artist and/or critic at universities, summer schools, informal schools and teaching off campus as well as participating at conferences worldwide with invitations from Havana, Berlin, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Cape Verd, Lagos, Martinique, New York, Rio de Janeiro, etc. 

Rosana Sancin