Poetics of the sign and the détour

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Poetics of the sign and the détour

This activity is part of the exhibition "MIRALDA MADEINUSA"
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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz. Ojos para mis enemigos, 2014

In the religions of the black Atlantic there are a wide range of gestures, signs and objects in the everyday texture of the practitioner: gestures and objects that weave affective relations with the deities and the community; words and dreams that reveal some worlds while disguising others; signs that arise from transcultural wars in colonial violence. Poetics, signs and masks are strategies that articulate these relations under other forms and guises, in a reference to what the writer Édouard Glissant described as ‘disguising beneath the symbol, to say without saying’, or ‘the practice of the détour or deviation’.

With a programme that combines conversation, performatic concerts, walks in the city and encounters around food, this seminar aims to activate the installation Santa Comida (Holy Food) by the artist Antoni Miralda, currently on display at the Capella MACBA, from two different readings. The first is set in the framework of the black or indigenous Atlantic world, for which candomblé, winti culture, the practice of vodou or santería are complex cultural and spiritual systems that arose in America as resistance strategies against colonialism, as a result of the African diaspora of ideas and people with indigenous knowledge. The second reading aims to explore these traditions from the perspective of the intimate and the everyday: from micro-practices such as storytelling, conversation, songs, potions and food, from which the mundane density of the ritual is woven.

The activity is part of the exhibition MIRALDA MADEINUSA.

dates
20 January 2017 – 21 January 2017
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John Mason ‘Santa Comida’. Miralda and John Mason”‘ from the publication ‘MIRALDA MADEINUSA’ Exhibition brochure of “Poetics of the sign and the détour” (in Catalan)
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Poetics of the sign and the détour
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20 January 2017 – 21 January 2017
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Poetics of the sign and the détour
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John Mason ‘Santa Comida’. Miralda and John Mason”‘ from the publication ‘MIRALDA MADEINUSA’ Exhibition brochure of “Poetics of the sign and the détour” (in Catalan)
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