O Assombro dos Trópicos (The haunting of the tropics) is the title of the second edition of the Pivô Satellite, starting with a series of films by the collective Anarca Filmes. Curated by Victor Gorgulho, the project will also feature work by artists Diambe, Rafael Bqueer and the duo Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira, each occupying the digital platform with individual monthly proposals. Pivô Satellite functions as a project room within Pivô’s website. Its program is designed by artists and curators invited by the institution and comprises artistic proposals in different formats, developed for the web.

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Body, language, tropicality, speculative fiction and self-fiction are some of the project’s keywords. Curator Victor Gorgulho explains: “If the historical discourses around the idea of ​​the tropics (and the sign of tropicality) were responsible for encapsulating the complexities of the indigenous culture(s), how can we think today on counter-narratives that go beyond such hegemonic notions?”. Gorgulho proposes a curatorial narrative to investigate the contradictions surrounding the historical construction of the sign of tropicality.

The collective Anarca Filmes is the first to occupy the platform with the exhibition Usina-Desejo contra a Indústria do Medo (Desire Factory Against the Industry of Fear). The video program presents a retrospective of the group’s 6 years of activities, in addition to a new film, produced especially for the project. Anarca Filmes is a collective proposition in cinema and contemporary art in activity since 2014. Its films, videos, parties and artistic residences are relational devices, which exercise the coexistence and create dialogues between bodies, spaces and temporalities, dialoguing with the languages ​​of performance, installation, video and the internet. Anarca Filmes works have been shown at a number of festivals and institutions in the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, Mexico and Brazil. Participating in Pivô Satellite: Amanda Seraphico, Clarissa Ribeiro and Lorran Dias.

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Pivô Satellite #2, O assombro dos Trópicos, curated by Victor Gorgulho

Usina-Desejo contra a Indústria do Medo, screening series by Anarca Filmes collective.

January 26 to February 25, 2021 at www.pivo.org.br/satelite

About Pivô Satellite

Designed by artists and curators invited by the institution, the platform Pivô Satellite presents artistic proposals in different formats, created especially for digital media. Its program comprises works by 12 artists selected by 3 young Brazilian curators. Each curator chooses four artists to occupy this digital project room with monthly individual proposals.

Pivô Satellite aims to contribute to the creation of a support network for the Brazilian artistic community in this dire moment. The artists will be granted with a commissioning fee, be accompanied by the invited curator and rely on Pivô’s production and communication structure and its team to develop the content to be displayed by Pivô Satellite. The projects will have an experimental character and may take on various formats and durations, with no restrictions as to the type of media or theme, having only to respect the current social distancing requirements.

The collaborators of this program were invited according to criteria that take into account the relevance and quality of their artistic research, in addition to the diversity of identities present in Brazil – of gender, ethnic-racial, regionality, social and cultural context. By consolidating this program, Pivô hopes to bring together a consistent and diverse group of new active voices in the Brazilian art scene, at a pressing moment in our history.

To enable the program, Pivô brought together, in collaboration with the supporters of the institution Georgiana Rothier, Bernardo Faria and Ticiana Terpins Strozenberg, a special group of patrons who generously supported the program’s first year, among them: Alan Terpins, Antônia Bergamin, Antônia de Sá Cavalcante Borges, Camila Yunes Guarita, Catherine Petitgas, Coleção Coletiva, Denise Terpins, Fabiana Sonder, Fabiano Al Makul, Felipe Dmab, Frances Reynolds, Heloisa Genish, Iris Kaufmann, Maria do Mar Guinle, Mariana Clayton, Monica Bouqvar, Paula Macedo Weiss and Daniel Weiss, Simone Coscarelli Parma and Alejandro Parma, Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch.

About Anarca Filmes

Anarca Filmes collective is a film and contemporary art production company with an experimental audiovisual proposal. Founded by former students of the UFRJ School and Social Communication in late 2014, the group expresses a genuine search for a language that represents young artists. Themes related to contemporary social and political urgency, such as the celebration of LGBTQI + lives as a counterpoint to colonial violence, mobilize Anarca. For its founders, Amanda Seraphico, Clarissa Ribeiro, Lorran Dias and Mariana Cavalcanti, Anarca’s main proposal is the empowerment and autonomy of dissident bodies and sexualities.

About the curator

Victor Gorgulho (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) is a curator, journalist and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro. Graduated in Journalism from ECO-UFRJ. He holds a master’s degree in Literature and Contemporary Culture from PUC-Rio. He curated the exhibitions We live in the best city of South America, along with curator Bernardo José de Souza (Átomos, Rio de Janeiro, 2016 and Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, 2017); The third world asks for a blessing and goes to sleep (Despina, Rio de Janeiro, 2017); I’ve always dreamed of a museum in fire – Laura Lima & Luiz Roque at Carlos Werneck’s Puppet Theater (Rio de Janeiro, 2018); Perdona que no te crea (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, 2019). Co-curator, with Keyna Eleison, of the exhibition Engraved in the body, at Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, on view until February 2021. Since 2019 he is the curator of MIRA, ArtRio’s videoart program. He is part of the curatorial body of Despina, a research center and artistic residency space in Rio de Janeiro, under the direction of Consuelo Bassanesi. At the space’s cineclub, he has promoted the screening of films and conversations with artists such as Cristiano Lenhardt, DISTRUKTUR and Karim Aïnouz. As a journalist, he worked as assistant editor of culture for Jornal do Brasil (2014-2017) and today collaborates with vehicles such as El País Brasil. Co-organizer, along with critic and curator Luisa Duarte, of the book No tremor do mundo – Essays and interviews in the light of the pandemic (Editora Cobogó, 2020).