*New podcast: In this conversation, Marie Hélène Pereira and Fatima Bintou
Rassoul Sy—two key members of Raw Material Compan
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https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-337-raw-material-company>y—discuss a
situated feminist and decolonial practice that focuses on doing rather than
enunciating and categorizing. *
Link:
https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-337-raw-material-company
Based in Dakar, Senegal, Raw Material Company is an independent,
collaborative centre that aims to foster critical thinking through artistic
practice. The project was founded in 2008 at the initiative of curator Koyo
Kouoh, with a socially committed, pan-African, translocal vision and a
programme that revolves around the research, promotion and dissemination of
contemporary culture in and from Africa. From the perspective of the RAW
Material Company, curatorial practice is an expanded exercise in knowledge
production that goes beyond exhibitions. It encompasses artistic education
and public programmes, as well as residencies, a library, an archive,
publications, and even podcasts. All these tools are used to weave networks
and communities that implement critical thought from a perspective of
collectivity and care in which fragility and vulnerability are understood
as a crack and a source of power to generate change.
Marie Hélène Pereira and Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy share some of their
experiences and talk about the strategies they use to create rich forms of
dialogue and to negotiate the tensions and the ideological and economic
constraints imposed through the still-colonial structures of the so-called
global North. Actions that can be as small as opening up a space in which
to be together, to unlearn and rethink the emancipatory possibilities that
art can offer society.
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*TAKE CARE!*