{"id":34226,"date":"2016-12-01T09:40:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T12:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rioonwatch.org\/?p=34226"},"modified":"2016-12-01T12:02:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:02:56","slug":"hanging-garden-festival-returns-to-babilonia-with-artistic-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=34226","title":{"rendered":"Hanging Garden Festival Returns to Babil\u00f4nia with Artistic Residency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On November 19, the 5th Hanging\u00a0Garden Festival<\/a> took place in\u00a0Morro da Babil\u00f4nia<\/a>. The event, which has taken place over three editions in an area of the hill where the favela meets the forest, included\u00a0works of art by young emerging artists and various musical attractions, coming from within the community itself and from outside.<\/p>\n

Along\u00a0the dirt road between the festival’s three stages, the audience\u00a0discovered the nearly 30 works of art installed in the locale. In between\u00a0houses and trees, in a relaxed environment, the audience\u00a0encountered photographs hanging on branches, sound\u00a0installations with cricket noises, and poems on steps.<\/p>\n

Alongside\u00a0the works of the young artists were works by invited artists, such as Ernesto Neto, Marcos Chaves, Franz Manata and Saulo Laudares.<\/p>\n

The night\u2013which included musical presentations from Silvia Duffrayer, Tyaro Maia, Amal\u00e1, Maur\u00edcio Monteiro and his samba group and sets by the Babil\u00f4nia DJs responsible for the Mirante in Concert festival\u2013came to an end with a body-shaking samba by the group Samba de Roda Filhas de Anast\u00e1cio.<\/p>\n

\"Maur\u00edcio<\/a><\/h3>\n

Artistic residency<\/h3>\n

For the first time, the festival had\u00a0support from the Favela Criativa program<\/a> which allowed for the undertaking of a month-long artistic residency. The nine selected artists proposed works that addressed the area’s sociopolitical issues, interacting with the geographic space and the favela’s residents.<\/p>\n

The residency allowed residents to get to know the artists and their work up close. One of the highlights of the interaction was the art of Thiago Antonio, which involved the planting of sunflowers through the exhibition space, generating great interest from residents and many requests for the artist’s sunflowers. Another work\u00a0that highlighted the relationship with the location was the performance of M\u00f4nica Ventura, who gathered a group of black women in\u00a0a show inspired by the Sisterhood of the Good Death<\/a>. The performance involved using one of the last remaining natural pools on Morro da Babil\u00f4nia, a place of historical and symbolic value to the community.<\/p>\n

\"Performance\"<\/a><\/p>\n

“Since the residency started, the residents were aware it would happen and the integration was more natural. The festival\u00a0was done as a consequence, it wasn’t a custodian event\u00a0that colonizes and gentrifies,” declared Dandara Catete, the creator of the festival\u00a0and creative director.<\/p>\n

The organizers sought diversity among\u00a0the group of resident artists, bringing artists from other favelas and peripherial areas such as Morro do Dend\u00ea and Mesquita<\/a>, as well as artists from other countries like Argentina and Germany. Beyond contributing to the set-up and creation of the exhibition catalog, community members\u00a0participated in a three-day collective process to choose the non-resident artists. Other highlights of the residency were the visit to the studio\u00a0of artist Cildo Meirelles, a\u00a0visit to the African Heritage Circuit\u00a0in the Port Region<\/a> guided by the New Blacks Institute<\/a>, and visits by curator\u00a0Fernando Cocchiarale, theorist Jorge Vasconcellos, and artist\u00a0Ricardo Basbaum.<\/p>\n

Central theme: Decolonization<\/h3>\n

The central theme of the festival\u00a0was the concept of decolonization. This theme was debated at the start of the event in a panel composed of Andiara Dee Dee, an artist and activist of the black feminist movement, Rodrigo Mondego, a human rights lawyer and \u00c1lvaro Maciel, a member of one of the founding families of Morro da Babil\u00f4nia and father of \u00c1lvaro J\u00fanior, the Hanging\u00a0Garden’s cultural producer since the event began in 2011.<\/p>\n

\"Panel<\/a><\/p>\n

Along its five-year trajectory, the festival\u2013that arose as a proposal to occupy gardens with contemporary art\u2013has\u00a0become more public and political, focusing on the contemporary art space within favelas. In this current context of political and financial crisis, the festival’s organizers wanted to focus on alternatives like co-dependence and self-legitimization that have been emerging\u00a0as a counterpoint to a pattern of colonization and domination.<\/p>\n

“It’s still a colonizing mentality, in a certain way, for you to refuse to enter the favela and refuse to make contemporary art in the favela,” pondered Dandara Catete. “So how does one create a more self-sustaining society, in which the thinking is decolonized, the body is decolonized, and the woman is decolonized? What is decolonization? We urge the artists to think about if their work was colonizing or decolonizing.”<\/p>\n

Closing<\/h3>\n

On November\u00a027, the closing event of the artistic residency and the festival’s activities took place at the Casa Fran\u00e7a-Brasil from 5pm\u00a0to 10pm. The event was open to the public.<\/p>\n

5th Hanging\u00a0Garden Festival\u00a0Team<\/h3>\n

Creative Director: Dandara Catete
\nHead Producer: \u00c1lvaro J\u00fanior
\nGeneral Coordinator: Rachel\u00a0Azoubel
\nArchitect and Expographer: Laura Beringuer
\nArt Editor: Jerson Andrade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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