IF MY GRANDMOTHER WAS AN HISTORIAN
A solo show by Márcio Carvalho in conversation with Elena Agudio
Eröffnung am Sa., 20.06.2015 um 19:00 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten: 23.6.-26.06. Di-Fr 16:00-18:00
Kontakt 0178-6718220
If My Grandmother Was An Historian is a solo show by Márcio Carvalho dealing with different cultural models of remembering and forgetting. The exhibition performs different types of interferences and perturbations on found objects as a way to think about the delicate processes of memory formation in individuals and groups. By disrupting a universe of stories, metaphors, images and other forms of action and imagination, Carvalho tries to look at the ways by which autobiographical memories are formed by collective stories and how collective history can be disrupted by individual remembrance.
He is the co-founder and curator of the performance art program CO-LAB editions and the curator of the performance section at Afiriperfoma Biennial 2015, in Lagos Nigeria.
In the past he founded the artist residence program Hotel25 in Berlin and initiated programs and festivals such as "The Powers of Art", the first international TV Show dedicated to showcasing a crossing between performing arts and paranormal activity and Plot in Situ - festival of Performance art in Berlin.
Elena Agudio
Elena Agudio is a Berlin based art historian and curator. Her research is focused on the sharing and exchange of knowledge and skills across disciplines and cultures. She studied Art History at the University of Venice - Ca Foscari and in 2010 she received her PhD in Art and Design at the University of Palermo. From 2005 to 2010 she lectured at the University Iulm of Milano and at the University of Architecture of Palermo. Since 2007 she is writing for and coordinating the direction of the Italian art magazine Art e Dossier. She is artistic director of the non profit association AoN_a platform for Neuroscience and Art, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité, The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University and the Institut für Raumexperimente led by Olafur Eliasson, for which she has been curating projects at the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin) and the Library of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice). http://www.association-of-neuroesthetics.org/ Since 2103 she is artistic co-director of Savvy Contemporary, a non profit Berlin based art space founded and directed by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung.