Grada Kilomba

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Grada Kilomba


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Lisboa, Portugal
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Grada Kilomba is a interdisciplinary artist and writer, born in Lisbon and living in Berlin.
Her work draws on memory, trauma, race, gender, and the decolonisation of knowledge: ‘who can speak?’ ‘what can we speak about?’ and ‘What happens when we speak?’ are three constant questions in Kilomba’s body of work. In her work, she intentionally creates a hybrid space between the academic and the artistic languages, and uses storytelling as a central element for her decolonial practices.
She is best known for her subversive and her unconventional use of artistic practices, in which she gives body, voice and image to her own text – what she describes as Performing Knowledge – using a variety of formats such as Publication, Performance, Staged Readi
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Plantation Memories

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Grada Kilomba: Secrets to Tell

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Memorias de la plantacion

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“Não posso deixar de escrever um último parágrafo, para lembrar que a língua, por mais poética que possa ser, tem também uma dimensão política de criar, fixar e perpetuar relações de poder e de violência, pois cada palavra que usamos define o lugar de uma identidade. No fundo, através das suas terminologias, a língua informa-nos constantemente de quem é normal e de quem é que pode representar a verdadeira condição humana.”
Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories

“Fantasies, which do not represent us, but the white imaginary. They are the denied aspects of the white self which are re-projected onto us, as if they were authoritative and objective pictures of ourselves. They are however not of our concern.”
Grada Kilomba
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“Aquelas/es que trocavam saudações nunca tinham se encontrado antes, então a saudação estava obviamente ligada não ao presente, mas a uma ferida do passado coletivo, e era uma lembrança do dano histórico que causava imensa ansiedade a Alicia;”
Grada Kilomba, Memórias da plantação: episódios de racismo cotidiano



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