Discussion: “The Question of Community”

Tue 10 Apr 2018, 7.30 – 9.30 pm
Six Space

From the organizer:

You are invited to the art talk and discussion with artist/filmmaker Raphaël Grisey and architect Alexander Eriksson Furunes.

Moderated by: Quyên Nguyễn

Screening of the film “Traana” (Temporary Migrant) by Raphaël Grisey and Kaddu Yaraax

About “Traana”:

“Traana” is a theatre script written by Bouba Touré in 1977, one of the documents from his on-going archive composed mainly of photographs, but also including writings such as diaries, notes or novel manuscripts. The theatre script of “Traana” was written after Bouba Touré and 14 other members of the Cultural Association of African Workers in France decided to resettle back to West Africa. They settled along the Senegal river (a region typically experiencing massive emigration to the north), in order to promote a cooperative model and new forms of doing permaculture, the main source of income in the area, and to reconsider denied rural origins. The play tells a story of rural exodus, from the countryside to the city, from the city to Europe. This story of migration from the 60’s and 70’s indexes the failure of the liberation movements in Senegal and Mali to consider the postcolonial conditions for peasants after independence.

Kaddu Yaraax (Voice of Yaraakh), the Theatre of the Oppressed company, exists since the 1990’s and organizes an international Theatre Forum festival since more than 10 years. Their work engages with issues of the day such as emigration, health, city development and ecology, with modes of address for specific local communities. The principle of Theatre Forum is to play a scenario that is then given to over to discussion, interpretation, critique and transformation by an audience.

About Raphaël Grisey:

Born in Paris, 1979, lives and works in Berlin and Trondheim. Grisey has used video, editorial and photographic works for several years to gather or produce narratives about the politics of memory, migration and architecture. The photographic series and book Where is Rosa L. (2001-2006) studies the ghosts of various political regimes in Berlin’s public spaces. Through diverse documentary, fictional or essayist forms, Grisey’s films and installations deal with contemporary social and political issues such as migration and postcolonialism in France (Trappes, Ville Nouvelle, 2003; Cooperative, 2008 and Becoming Cooperative Archive 2015– in collaboration with Bouba Touré). He collaborated with Florence Lazar on the films Prvi Deo and Red Star (2006), which deal with post-war former Yugoslavia. Recent film projects led him to work in Budapest (National Motives, 2011), in France amid students’ strikes (The Indians, 2011), in China amid Míngōng peasant-workers (The Exchange of Perspectives, 2011), in the social housing complex of Pedregulho in Brazil (Minhocão, 2011), in the Brazilian Positivist Church in Rio de Janeiro (Amor e Progresso, 2014) and around maroon quilombola communities in Minas Gerais (Remanescentes ; A Mina dos Vagalumes, 2015). His work has been shown in film festivals such as Saison Vidéo, Nuit Blanche, FID Marseille (FR), Hotdocs Vancouver (CA), Doc Lisboa (PR), Forum Doc (BR), Documentary Forum, Rencontres Internationales, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Underdox (G). As well as in art centers and museums including: Kunsthalle Budapest (HU), Centre Pompidou, Rennes Biennale, Art Center Les Églises Chelles, Passerelle, Espace Khiasma, CPIF (FR), Casa Encendida, Contemporary Art Center Huarte (SP), MAM Sao Paulo, MIS (BR), MCA Chicago (US), Uqbar, CHB, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Savvy Contemporary, NGBK, Halle Für Kunst Lüneburg, Archive Kabinett, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (G). Since 2015, Grisey is a fellow at the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme.

For more info, please visit his website.

About Alexander Eriksson Furunes:

Alex studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in the UK, before receiving his masters in architecture at NTNU, Norway. During his studies he established WORKSHOP together with two partners, to manage workshops and projects in UK and India. After graduating Alexander started the studio, Eriksson Furunes architecture. With this studio he initiated and completed a series of collaborative projects with communities in UK, India, Philippines, Brazil, Vietnam and China.

For more information about the works, please visit his website.

The event is in dual language (English and Vietnamese).

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