Interview with Achille Mbembe by Rosa Moussaoui
In his latest essay, Critique of Negro Reason, Achille Mbembe deploys an enlightening reflection on alterity, on the genealogy of the concept of “race” which is indissociable from the development of capitalism, and on what he names “the becoming negro of the world”. He points to a horizon of emancipation, that of a “rising of humanity” in a world that has shed the burden of race.
““Artist-proletarians” are everywhere – the question is when they will be transformed into a new class which could shape a new emancipatory vision of the future and stop being a simple service-labor army for the hyper bourgeoisie.”
Interview with Dmitry Vilensky (Chto delat?) about postcommunism, autonomy, power of dialectics, Brecht’s methods and their videos: “Perestroika Songspiel: Victory Over the Coup”, “Partisan Songspiel: A Belgrade Story” and “Museum Songspiel: the Netherlands 20XX”.
Barcelona/St.Petersburg, October, 2013
by Vulcanita Erupziono
“In the belly of fascism” is a trans-disciplinary project that deals with the intersection between Italian historical colonialism and today’s racism in contemporary Italy. The aim is to analyze critically the present Italian colonial matrix of power through the thinking and critical engagement of those who have the status of migrant cultural workers, including the so-called “second generation” migrants, that are precise regarding their post-colonial background, in order to acquire a non-Eurocentric genealogy of our European history.
http://nelventredelfascismo.noblogs.org/
Ramón Grosfoguel propone una reflexión crítica sobre el aparato teórico montado desde un antiesencialismo radical o anti-identitarismo que es propio para la realidad de unas personas que viven privilegio racial en el sistema mundo y que se convierte en arma de colonización en el momento en que ese marco antiesencialista se extrapola. Habla sobre cómo ciertas formas de ser han sido históricamente superiorizadas y cómo en cambio otras han sido tradicionalmente inferiorizadas. Grosfoguel propone un proceso de descolonización en las actuales luchas políticas.
Migration, Sex, History: Africa/Europe.
A Research into Labor, Theory, Activism and Migration from Africa into Europe in the 21st Century.(Why is Africa cursed in Europe?)
FILM by Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid + Tjaša Kancler (Slovenia, Austria, Spain) (2014)
Let’s say “Each generation necessarily engages in a process of rewriting/reconstituting the past. Film makers have to paint their own landscapes; they must breathe new life into each moment in cinema. That can only be achieved when practitioners have mapped out the field of visual representations and the film techniques they wish to deploy.” – Reece Augiste, Member Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC)
Departing from a tradition in politically engaged art experimental projects, we want to make a film to reflect on Europe and its borders, elaborating different conditions for living and acting. This is coming as an imperative. It is a question of establishing new possibilities for forming a different, but counter, almost bastard, dissident history of Europe, better to say of EU, that is, of migration, empowerment and reflection. Transsexual and defiant. The film strives to produce another history and to delink itself from conventionality of the melodramatic language and narratives presented by official film productions.