Barbarian Currents: launches in Ontario and Montréal (Sep 18-22)
Dear all,
I'm very happy to invite you to a series of launches of the anthology BARBARIAN CURRENTS: HALF A CENTURY OF BRAZILIAN MEDIA ARTS, to take place in the upcoming weeks in Canada.
Barbarian Currents is a pioneering anthology that covers half a century of Brazilian media arts through a sociological lens, examining the many intriguing circumstances that have shaped new forms of cultural and artistic expression. The chapters, most of which have been translated into English for the first time, remind us that ‘alternative’ art histories are simply the flipside of dominant narratives. They encourage us to look beyond the lens of Western exceptionalism and reframe our understanding of cultural histories worldwide.
Book is open access and can be downloaded here: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/barbarian-currents
But please come for a panel with editors Gabriel Menotti and German Alfonso Nunez and a screening program featuring pioneering videos made at University of São Paulo’s Contemporary Art Museum in the 1970s and documentaries about Brazilian tactical media from the early 2000s by Lucas Bambozzi.
Times and dates:
- Toronto: Sep 18 at InterAccess (32 Lisgar St), 6.30pm
- Kingston: Sep 19 at the Isabel Bader Center (390 King St W), 1pm
- Montréal: Sep 22 at Concordia GEM Lab (1250 Rue Guy), 5.30pm
These activities are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, FAPESP, and Queen’s University.
Best!
Gabriel Menotti