| Abstrakt: |
"After it's all said: a conversation" as you will read it in the following is a transmutation -- performed by me, Jess Oliveira -- of a previous live chat among artists and intellectuals Denise Ferreira da Silva, Musa Michelle Mattiuzzi, and Laís Machado on their intellectual-artistic work and how they challenge the modern tradition of critical discourses. I mean, its virtuality, that dimension of the work that refuses, escapes, no matter what is updated, in terms of what the artist does of the original idea, of what its materials and other circumstances make it possible or impossible, or how the audience(s) respond to the work. From the vantage point I see and practice my own work, I understand it as an aesthetic practice made possible by the work(s) of Black women, and that makes other works by Black women possible. Translation, as I practice it, is an act of remembrance and continuation of conversations of and with works done; questions posed and answers gave by Black women and (in) their works, a possibility after it's all said. [Extracted from the article] |
