The Artists
Bianca Turner
Bianca Turner’s work is interdisciplinary, between video, video art, video performances, video installations and expanded cinema, audiovisual actions, urban interventions and video mapping.
Her research explores the notion of the archive as an imperialist imposition, the expansion of time-space through the use of audiovisual resources and video projection in relation to the body.
Bianca Turner holds a BA in ‘Design and Performance Practice’ from Central Saint Martins (2011, London) and a Master’s in “Scenography” from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2013, London).
Of particular note is her participation in BIENALSUR, in the exhibition ‘Ese Frágil equilibrio’ in Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2023), in the exhibition ‘Mulheres em Luta! Archives of Political Memory’, at the Memorial of Resistance of São Paulo, Brazil (2023), in the opening performance of the 34th São Paulo Biennial in 2020 in collaboration with Neo Muyanga and Collective Legítima Defesa, at the Verbo Festival of Performance Art in 2022 and 2018 (Vermelho Gallery), at the 40th Arte Pará and at the 1st Salon of Art of Goiás in 2022 (MAC); at the 46th SARP (MARP) in 2021, at the SSA Mapping Festival in 2018 and 2023, at the 50th Salon of Contemporary Art Luis Sacilotto, in Brazil.
Also in the exhibition ‘Corpo Poético Político’, at Portas Vila Seca Gallery (2020), and in ‘Fauna, Flora, Primavera’, at Luciana Brito Gallery (2022), both curated by Fernando Mota.
She has won awards at the 36th Salon of Art of Jacarezinho in 2021, at the 18th Salon Ubatuba of Visual Arts in 2022, and at SSA Mapping (2023) with a Technical Jury award.
Her work is mentioned in Giselle Beiguelmann’s publication ‘August-Impulso Historiográfico’, commissioned for the exhibition ‘Meta-Arquivo 1964-1985’ at SESC Belenzinho in São Paulo, curated by Ana Pato.
In this publication, Giselle makes the first translation of Hal Foster’s influential essay ‘An Archival Impulse’, from October magazine, contextualizing the translation for Brazilian artistic production to discuss the use of archival research and the materialization of archives in art, in which she cites the work of Bianca Turner in place of Tacita Dean.
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel
Luanda Carneiro Jacoel (BR/NO) is a performance artist working with the principles of ancestry, memory and temporality in the Afro – Diasporic body. The work crosses boundaries between dance; ritual; installation and video-performance. Her work has been presented internationally in performance venues, exhibitions, artistic residences, artistic talks and performance – lectures. She is a PhD fellow in artistic research in film and related audio-visual arts (FILMART) at Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA) and The Norwegian Film School (INN). She has a Master in Fine Arts Performance at the Norwegian Theatre Academy (NTA); a bachelor in Communication of Performing Arts – PUC – SP (Brazil); certified as a Somatic Movement Practitioner at Somatic Movement Institute – SMI – (Netherlands) and is co-founder of the former platform ACTS – laboratory for performance practices (Oslo). She is a guest artist in the research project “Sea Matters”(2023-2026) – a performance research pedagogy laboratory based on shared transatlantic storytelling, artistic actions and listening practices between the Norwegian Theatre Academy and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is director of legacy at Casa Sueli Carneiro, in Brazil a black institution based on the activist and intellectual legacy of Sueli Carneiro which is dedicated to welcoming black production, activism, reflections, critique and artistic expressions in a mission of expanding the visibility and scope of black activist – intellectual – political thinking in Brazil and beyond its borders in dialogue with other Afro-Diasporas.
She has been artist resident at the Village des Artistes/ directed by Koffi KôKô in Ouidah, Benin (2019//2023). Artist talk at PRAKSIS – Arts and culture catalyst in Oslo, Norway (2023). Performances – Lectures at conferences: “RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2022” by the University of Newcastle, England, Panel: “Arts, heritage and performing politics”; “Home: Provoking Conversations on Place and Belonging” – University of Gloucestershire (2022), Panel: “Identity, Belonging and Subjectivity”; “Performance and Playfulness symposium” by York St John University and the Norwegian Theater Academy (2021). Exhibition// Gives-on-and-with: Decolonial moves of the transcultural at Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2021). The exhibition My Hair Loves BAD weather by Kiyoshi Yamamoto at Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway (2021). Exhibition: Threshold(s) at CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics. Copenhagen, Denmark (2019-2020). Exhibition: Head, Hand, Eye by Hanni Kamaly. Curated by TrAP- Transnational Arts Production. Interkulturelt Museum. Oslo, Norway (2019); Artist resident at Dancegathering – Antidisciplinary Performance Lab/directed by Qudus Onikeku in Lagos, Nigeria (2018). Festival: “History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It” PALS, Performance Art Links – Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden (2018).
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