Ketchup Session: Ana Vaz & Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Ketchup Session: Ana Vaz & Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Hosted by Fernanda Brenner and in partnership with Pivô, São Paulo Thursday, October 28, 11 am PDT | 3 pm BST The event will be live-streamed on YouTube . RSVP for Zoom link . Real-time captioning provided. Experimental and ethnographic film have long been considered two different disciplines on the margins of mainstream cinema. Ana Vaz and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz deliberately dissolve this division to explore the interplay between written language, performance, and moving images. The artists discuss their particular approach to filmmaking as a self-implicating and speculative tool to rework cultural histories and sociopolitical frameworks of specific contexts and to bridge different people, landscapes, and forms of knowledge. Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian highlands inhabited by the ghosts buried by its modernist capital: Brasília. Her filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and instrument capable of dehumanising the human, expanding its connections with forms of life — other than human or spectral. Consequences or expansion of her cinematography, her activities are also embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations or collective walks. Recent showings of her work include: Berlinale – Forum Expanded, New York Film Festival, Jeu de Paume, Dazibao (Montréal, Canada), 36th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Sertão at MAM – Museum of Modern Art (São Paulo, Brazil), Meta-Archive 1964-1985: Space for Listening and Reading on the Histories of the Military Dictatorship in Brazil at Sesc-Belenzinho (São Paulo, Brazil). Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema and feminist practices. She tends to work with non-actors, and incorporates improvisation into her process. Her recent work is on the sensorial unconscious of anti-colonial movements, with everyday poetic thought and feminist experiments with language and narrative. Recent solo exhibitions include: Oriana in Pivô, São Paulo, the 34th São Paulo Biennial, the Momenta Biennale in Montreal, and Gosila in Der Tank , Basel; Her work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, KADIST and Guggenheim, among others. She has received a Creative Capital grant, a USA Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and the 2021 Artes Mundi Prize, shared among all 7 nominees. Fernanda Brenner is a curator and writer based in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the founding director of Pivô, a non-profit space in operation since 2012, in São Paulo. Recent projects include the group exhibition “A Burrice dos Homens” (2019) Galeria Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Art Dubai Residents Section, United Arab Emirates (2019), the group exhibition Neither (2017), Mendes Wood DM, Brussels and co-curation of Nightfall (2018) at Mendes Wood DM, Brussels and Caixa Preta (2018) at the Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre. She is a contributing editor for Frieze Magazine and her texts are published in various publications and catalogs, such as Artreview, Mousse, Cahiers d’Art, Terremoto, and The Exhibitionist, where she serves on the editorial board.