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Catarina Simao
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Catarina Simao<br>

Place: Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería, Pabellón 2

Off screen - on Mozambique film archive


Catarina Simão is a researcher dedicated to the study of political transformations on image. She created a frame of research focusing on the Mozambique state film archive, founded shortly after Mozambique gained independence from Portugal, in 1975. The archive contains socialist propaganda films from the 1970s and early 1980s, since the new government considered cinema as a powerful tool to fight against imperialism. By unfolding a chain of relationships between films and the interference by other countries on their production, financing and organisation, Simão deals with a political re-framing of these films. She raises questions about representation in these images, in a culture with a colonial legacy.



Catarina Simão (Lisbon 1972) is an architect and independent art researcher. She lived in Barcelona where she started to research on art and politics. She directed the Foundation 30Km/s. Back to Lisbon, she works in the areas of cinema, music, theatre, and art curating. In September 2008, she created the event Luso-phonia in Barcelona, where the sound argument is key to an electro-acoustics critique of society. Since then, she has dedicated to the study of subjective knowledge phenomena and their relation to the Diaspora, to post colonialism, experimentation, technology, and other areas of industrial production. In 2009, she discovers that the film archive of Mozambique embodies important issues involving acts of political transformation on images. She developed a research project called Fora de Campo (Off-Screen) - on the film archive of Mozambique - with the intention of initiating a global debate involving artists, filmmakers, philosophers and politicians. This project was first presented at Atelier Re.al (Lisbon, November 2009) and then at Museu Serralves (Porto, April 2010). At all presentations a set of new researchers and artists are invited to participate and contribute on the project.



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