Português
Diego Araúja is from Salvador-BA, Brazil, and produces art in an expanded way. His media are literary, visual, scenic and cinematographic. He acts as director, playwright, screenwriter and visual artist. Since 2013 he directs the process Estética Para um Não-Tempo (Aesthetics for a Non-Time), with the objective of establishing a qualitative time that allows the production of emancipated afro-diasporic memories; what he calls Fundamentos Futuros (Future Foundations). In this process, he experimented with the creation of oríkì’s (oral literature of Yorùbá origin), which generated the work QUASEILHAS (2018). In 2017 he founded the ÀRÀKÁ Platform with artist Laís Machado. In 2018, he designed a choreographic performance for the video installation A Marvelous Entanglement, by British artist Isaac Julien. In the same year, he did his artistic residency at Atlantic Center For The Arts (Florida-USA), where he created the video installation Oríkì das Araújas, experimenting with synthetic sound vibrations in oríkì’s. In 2020, he did his artistic residency at SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin-GER). Currently, Araúja is developing authorial cinematographic work, while organizing the foundation of the International Creole Laboratory.
Participating artist at Pivô Satellite #1.
How can a body programmed for displacement, for temporal waste, resist? How can you practice diaspora with isolation and distancing? Diego Araúja’s response is to twist language in order to create the International Creole Lab (LIC), a language not born out of trauma or the context of survival.
Testing the limits of artistic objects and their performance in the virtual environment, for Pivô Satellite, the artist proposes a game, a narrative-literary audiovisual essay-installation, which brings together the fundamental premises of LIC. As we re-stage the impossibility of physical contact in the present, Araúja suggests a creole gaze to examine the tension between tongue and language, introducing a key contribution to the study of performance and the relationship between memory and ancestry.