The International Creole Laboratory, by artist Diego Araúja, is the third project to be featured on Pivô Satellite platform, as part of the digital exhibition The Days Before The Crash, curated by Diane Lima. Faced with the impossibility of the effective foundation of the Laboratory in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Araúja proposes to Pivô Satellite a kind of narrative-literary, essayistic and audiovisual game about his motivations for the project. “I will organize this explanation through text, video and photos based on my motivations to find this spatiality”, explains the artist.

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“To create a language that is not born from trauma” is the main concern of the International Creole Laboratory. Departing from the American and African Creole languages, the project aims to bring together and trigger collaborations between African and Afro-diasporic artists that will be involved in the creation of a new Creole language as a performative act.

Diego Araúja is from Salvador, Bahia, and produces art in an expanded way. Working across an array of media, he combines literary, visual, scenic and cinematographic language in his practice. Acting as director, playwright, screenwriter and visual artist, since 2013, he directs the scenic process Aesthetics for a Non-Time, with the goal of establishing a qualitative time that allows for the production of emancipated afro-diasporic memories, what he calls Future Foundations. In this process, he experimented with the creation of oríkì’s (oral literature of Yorùbá origin), which generated the work ALMOST ISLANDS (2018).

Diane Lima is responsible for the curatorial project that started Pivô Satellite. The Days Before The Crash suggests a move back to what was being predicted, speculated and denounced before the pandemic, by a group of racialized and dissident artists with extensive experience in postponing the imminence of their own crashes. The first selected artist was Rebeca Carapiá. After biarritzzz, Diego Araúja and Raylander Martís dos Anjos will occupy the digital platform with monthly individual projects.

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