Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity
Coord: Mónica de Miranda
The Post-Archive sub-group reflects on issues of memory, diaspora and history in relation to current migration movements and urban landscapes in Africa linked to Portuguese colonisation and the end of the colonial empire. Post-Archive also looks comparatively at cross-cultural and migratory movements in Europe after decolonisation, examining practices and theories related to spaces, places, landscapes and borders linked to decolonisation. It also examines how nationality and transnationality shape the everyday experience of place and culture, and how globalisation and cosmopolitanism delineate cultural and aesthetic cartographies.
Post-Archive approach encourages the development of a research linked to artistic practice, as well as a methodology related to postcolonial themes of urbanism and identity. It combines past and present contemporary experiences with history and memory, intertwined with fictional re-imaginings of postcolonial urban places and spaces through the place of the familiar and the genealogy of personal spaces of artistic practice. Through a multidisciplinary research programme, carried out in partnership with the Artistic Research Centre Hangar, it includes activities such as: seminars, art lectures, performances and exhibitions.
The research is developed in a practical and artistic context, and takes the form of a contemporary art archive, which includes the creation of a web platform that gathers and compiles documents, video, audio and photographic resources on the study of post-colonial urban realities present in the city of Lisbon and in Luanda, Maputo, Praia and São Tomé.
Objectives
- Address how artistic practice critically reflects the history of European colonial empires, postcolonial migrations, diasporas and globalisation;
- Reinforcing artistic research as a tool for knowledge making and identity formation;
- Contribute within the academic and artistic community to European studies on migration, urbanism and decolonisation;
- Build a solid archive of knowledge regarding histories of migration, identity, place and memory in relation to post-colonial spaces in between Africa and Europe, and rethinking the historical and cultural understandings of archives, contributing to comparative research on the topics investigated;
- Dissemination of scientific publications and artistic research from countries that were colonised by Portugal and their diaspora;
- Making resources available for a broader audience through on-line dissemination of artistic and scientific research, but also involvement of civil society through open activities such as workshops, seminars, performances and exhibitions.
Team
Members
Mónica de Miranda (junior researcher, CEComp-FLUL)
Collaborators
Dzifa Peters (PhD student, CECC, Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Marisa Moorman (professor, Department of African Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Sónia Vaz Borges (assistant professor, Department of History, Drexel University)
ACTIVITIES
Recent and planned activities (2020- )
Hangar Online
Artist Run Spaces and Artists Collectives – The Artist as a Producer of Places and Networks
29.04.2021 Talk focused on Kooshk Residency (Iran), with executive manager Maryam Bagheri and former manager (artist and curator) Tooraj Khamenehzadeh. Hangar Online (Zoom)
29.04.2021 Talk with multidisciplinary artist Heba Y. Amin, mediated by Adama Sanneh. Hangar Online (Zoom)
28.01.2021 Talk focused on LE 18, Derb el Ferrane (Morrocco) with founder Laila Hida, mediated by curator Jeanne Mercier. Hangar Online (Zoom)
30.09.2020 Talk focused on Nuku Studio (Ghana) with photographer Nii Obodai, mediated by artist Maíra Zebun. Hangar Online (Zoom)
Art And Education | Freedom through art, creativity and education
19.11.2020 Talk with Adama Sanneh and Mark Miller, mediated by Ingrid Fortez. Hangar Online (Zoom)
Atlantica Talks: Contemporary Art in Angola
30.05.2020 Curating in Angola. Talk with André Cunha and Paula Nascimento, mediated by Marissa Moorman. Hangar Online (Zoom)
20.06.2020 Talk with André Cunha and Binelde Hyrcan. Hangar Online (Zoom)
10.09.2020 Utopia, Dystopia, Neo-Utopia – Three Generations of Contemporary Artists in Angola. Talk with Nadine Siegert and André Cunha. Hangar Online (Zoom)
Lançamentos de Livros
20.01.2021 Book launch: Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Mozambique and its Diaspora. Participants: Mónica de Miranda (org.), Bruno Leitão, Ângela Ferreira, Eugénia Mussa, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Azu Nwagbogu, Rafael Mouzinho, etc. Hangar Online (Zoom)
20.01.2021 Book launch Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and their Diasporas. Participants: Mónica de Miranda (org.), César Schofield Cardoso, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Inocência Mata, Joacine Katar Moreira, Vanessa Fernandes, Irineu Destourelles, Nú Barreto, Melissa Rodrigues, René Tavares. Lisbon: Hangar Center of Artistic Research.
10.09.2020 Book launch: Powerful Frequencies, Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola by Marissa Moorman. Hangar Online (Zoom)
Outros
20.04.2022 Participação Coleção Primavera-Verão Artistas Plásticos – Lojas com História. Retrosaria Nardo. EGEAC, Lisboa.
19.02.2020 Inauguração Exposição Mónica de Miranda “CONTOS DE LISBOA”. Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa.
Previous Activities
https://hangar.com.pt/en/investigacao/post-archive/
KEY PUBLICATIONS
- de Miranda, Mónica, César Schofield Cardoso (eds.) (2021) Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and their Disasporas , Lisbon: Hangar Books.
- de Miranda, Mónica (2021), “Red Horizon” Santos, Luísa (ed.) Politics of Silence, pp. 209-215. Lisbon: CECC, Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
- de Miranda, Mónica (2020) Tales of Lisbon. Lisbon: CML
- de Miranda Mónica (ed.) (2018), Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora, Lisbon: Hangar Books.
- Ferreira, Ângela (ed.) (2020) Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Mozambique and its Disapora, Lisbon: Hangar Books.
- Moorman, Marissa & Mónica de Miranda (eds.) (2020), Q-notes: Questions in Theory and Art Practices #1,Lisbon: Hangar Books.
- Moorman, Marissa (2019). Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power and the Cold War in Angola 1931-2002. Ohio: Ohio University Press.
- Nascimento, Paula & Mónica de Miranda (eds.) (Forthcoming 2022), No longer with the memory but with its future. Lisbon: Hangar Books & Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
- Sealy, Mark (ed.) (Forthcoming 2022) The Island, London: Autograph.
Usefull Links
http://www.monicademiranda.org/
https://hangar.com.pt/en/investigacao/post-archive/
http://artafrica.letras.ulisboa.pt/en/
Research projects
Visual Culture, Migration, Globalisation and Decolonisation / CITCOM
Post-Archive: Politics of Memory, Place and Identity / CITCOM
Migrant archive. Art and archive: Lisbon and beyond
Associated projects
2021. (coord.) Space Station Lisbon. Lisboa (online): Hangar CIA (Financiado pela CML, Bipzip) https://hangar.com.pt/station-lisbon/
2020. (coord.) Radio MAC – Movimento Anticolonial em colaboração com Sónia Vaz Borges. Lisboa/ Berlim (Online): Hangar CIA (Financiado pela Dg artes e Ministério da Cultura) https://hangar.com.pt/online/radio-mac-movimento-anti-colonial/
2020. (coord.) The Pan African Station em colaboração com a Chimurenga. Lisboa/ Cape Town(Online): Hangar CIA (Financiado pelo Bipzip) https://hangar.com.pt/online/the-pan-african-space-station/
Partners
Hangar – Artistic Research Center
Contact
E-mail: monicademiranda@gmail.com
