Emo de Medeiros

Great things are in the works for 2023...and I want to start the year with a message of gratitude to the curators I have worked with. Thank you for the projects we carried through, the ideas we exchanged and the moments we shared. I wish you the very best for 2023.✨ De belles choses sont prévues pour 2023...et je veux commencer l'année par un message de gratitude aux commissaires avec lesquels j'ai travaillé. Merci pour les projets que nous avons réalisés, les idées que nous avons échangées et les moments que nous avons partagés. Je vous souhaite le meilleur à venir pour 2023.✨ 🌏🔥🌊🌈✨ Defne Ayas Gabriel Bogossian Manuela de Barros Meriem Berrada Osei Bonsu Eva Barois de Caevel Ilaria Conti Stéphane Corréard Armelle Dakouo Philippe Dagen Salimata Diop Christine Eyene Reem Fadda Solange Farkas Juan Pablo García Sossa Mark Gisbourne Natasha Ginwala Didier Houenoude Jean-Michel Jagot Hajra Haider Karrar Charlotte Langhorst Aude Leveau Valentina Gioia Levy Jeanne Mercier Vittoria Matarrese Wunika Mukan Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Paula Nascimento Simon Njami Azu Nwabogu Julie Pellegrin Kerstin Pinther Gabriel Rodriguez Isabelle Renard Renée Roukens Renny Ramakers Arthur Steiner Alexia Tala Valentine Umansky Alexandra Weigand Mawena Yehouessi Kathryn Weir #gratitude #thanks #art #curators #team229 #emodemedeiros #future Artwork: "Akpe", 2022 (à Ouidah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzUrcDo2n9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Great things are in the works for 2023...and I want to start the year with a message of gratitude to the curators I have worked with. Thank you for the projects we carried through, the ideas we exchanged and the moments we shared. I wish you the very best for 2023.✨ De belles choses sont prévues pour 2023...et je veux commencer l'année par un message de gratitude aux commissaires avec  lesquels j'ai travaillé. Merci pour les projets que nous avons réalisés, les idées que nous avons échangées et les moments que nous avons partagés. Je vous souhaite le meilleur à venir pour 2023.✨ 🌏🔥🌊🌈✨ Defne Ayas Gabriel Bogossian Manuela de Barros Meriem Berrada Osei Bonsu Eva Barois de Caevel Ilaria Conti Stéphane Corréard Armelle Dakouo Philippe Dagen Salimata Diop Christine Eyene Reem Fadda Solange Farkas Juan Pablo García Sossa Mark Gisbourne Natasha Ginwala Didier Houenoude Jean-Michel Jagot Hajra Haider Karrar Charlotte Langhorst Aude Leveau Valentina Gioia Levy Jeanne Mercier Vittoria Matarrese Wunika Mukan Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Paula Nascimento Simon Njami Azu Nwabogu Julie Pellegrin Kerstin Pinther Gabriel Rodriguez Isabelle Renard Renée Roukens Renny Ramakers Arthur Steiner Alexia Tala Valentine Umansky Alexandra Weigand Mawena Yehouessi Kathryn Weir #gratitude #thanks #art #curators #team229 #emodemedeiros #future Artwork: "Akpe", 2022 (à Ouidah) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzUrcDo2n9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Kaleta/Kaleta 🇧🇯 is coming to Amsterdam 🇱🇺 ! After Paris, Cotonou, London, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Dakar, Sao Tome, Chendgu and soon Gwangju, the Kaleta continue to dance around the world! Come and see them in the exhibition "Now Look Here." curated by Renny Ramakers (curator of the last Sao Tome N'Gola biennale) at Amsterdam North, Asterweg 17, from January 25 to February 2020. KaletaKaleta Amsterdam exhibition contemporaryart africanart contextures Benin Brazil Afrobrazilian transafrican panafrican transmedia africancontemporaryart team229 Videobrasil benin beninart artwork artcontemporain emodemedeiros (à Amsterdam Centraal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7qzcR9oZvn/?igshid=1in911e4rkfeb

Delighted to show my piece ''Digital Dustricts' at the #kikkfestival in #namur #belgium🇧🇪. The energy and vibe of Kikk festival mixing art, technology innovation, maker's culture and 21st century consciousness is incredibly stimulating as well as inspiring, and I was particularly happy to be part of #afrikikk, the new program focused on the continent. #kikk19 #kikkfestival #DigitalDistricts #Contexture #ContemporaryArt #DigitalEarth #team229 @altdel_ @kikk_festival https://www.instagram.com/p/B4XTyILIBy4/?igshid=pxzwejy5013u

Glad to show my work 'Handroid City' at the @centrepompidou (until December 28th) in "Cosmopolis #2.0". The video installation exploring the smartphone-powered Digital Revolution in the Global South was filmed in Benin, Nigeria, Tanzania, Brazil and China. It was produced with the help of Hivos Digital Earth program, the Goethe Institut (VillaSul residency program in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil) and greatly facilitated by 33space, Sallyprojects and Ulephone in Shenzhen, China.  #HandroidCity #CentrePompidou #Contexture #DigitalRevolution #ContemporaryArt #DigitalArt #Transafrican #team229 #Cotonou #Benin #Lagos #Nigeria #DarEsSalaam #Tanzania #SalvadorDeBahia #Brazil #Shenzhen #China #DigitalSpirit #DigitalEarth #DigitalEarthnetwork #DigitalDistrict #emodemedeiros (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NZYyeIk_e/?igshid=1rtvg7jlfwi3u

Ecstatic to see 'Chromatics' almost finished: 14 screens displaying a randomly generated poem, 28 000 (!) posters with stanzas that the public can freely take away with them. 'Chromatics' is a frontal attack against racism and racialism, and I couldn't be happier to show it in Brazil and thus participate in the resistance against the proto-fascist regime currently in place. An immense thanks to the @videobrasil biennale , Solange Farkas and Gabriel Bogossian who made this possible. 🇧🇯 x 🇧🇷 = ☀️🔥✨ #contemporaryart #africanart #transafrican #contexture #Chromatics #installation #digitalart #team229 #beninart #globalsouth #biennialsescvideobrasil #SaoPaulo #Brazil  (à Sesc 24 de Maio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3XKPCWoREY/?igshid=hnnthdwc7fc

🌈 Proud and truly delighted to be back in São Paulo for the @videobrasil biennale, à manifestation which is to me every bit as important politically and ethically as artistically. I will be showing the complete version of 'Chromatics' (Movements I and II), and my new performance, 'Digital Soul'. Opening on October 9th. Stay tuned.🇧🇯 🇧🇷 #contemporaryart #africanart #transafrican #contexture #Chromatics #installation #digitalart #DigitalSoul #performance #team229 #beninart #globalsouth #proud #emodemedeiros #biennialsescvideobrasil #SaoPaulo #Brazil (à Sesc 24 de Maio) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3KGTLwoeOK/?igshid=147gkwfthe74e

In Shenzhen, finishing the shooting of Handroid City, my Digital Earth piece that will be shown at the Centre Pompidou next month during "Cosmopolis #2". The Global South - and the future - are electrifying! #Handroid City #digitalrevolution #digitalart #transafrican #team229 #Shenzhen #FutianDistrict #China #contexture #DigitalSpirit #DigitalEarth #DigitalEarthnetwork #DigitalDistrict (à Shenzhen, Guangdong) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2AmssPIHNW/?igshid=v7yas1ho7dtd

Glad to participate✨🚀🌍 See you there! 🌊 #contexture #handroidcity #Repost from @aavforum ⁣ Digital Histories in Africa⁣ ⁣ When talking about technology and its cultural impact, the American-led internet and Silicon Valley are always taken as the global technological standard. This disregards important parallel histories of technological development in different regions across the world, that are shaping the future of digital technologies. Looking at questions of techno-epistemologies, extractivism, algorithmic colonialism and digital activism, artistic practices related to Africa have engaged with technology through a wide spectrum of conceptual and creative methodologies. The panel will address current artistic practices in this field and the related platforms for international research and curatorial presentation.⁣ ⁣ “[…] now billions of Earthlings carry little bits of Africa around with them in their pockets.”—Benjamin Bratton⁣ ⁣ With:⁣ ⁣ Francois Knoetze, artist⁣ Emo de Medeiros, artist⁣ Tabita Rezaire, artist Arthur Steiner, Programme Manager, Digital Earth, Hivos⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Presented in collaboration with Digital Earth.⁣ Tuesday May 7th at 3pm ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ 📷Image: Emo de Medeiros, Vodunaut #003 (Hyperfeeler), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #aavf #aavforum #aavf2019 #francoisknoetze #emodemedeiros #arthursteiner #digitalearth #hivos #technology #culturalimpact #techno-epistemologies # extractivism #algorithmiccolonialism #digitalactivism #inclusivedialoguematters #africanart #contemporaryart #venicebiennale #2019 #forum #conversations #dialogue #inclusivity #accessibility ⁣⁣ (à Venice, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIvXlOj_9k/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=kzs5v6q7u5de

These last months in Salvador de Bahia at the Goethe Institut VillaSul residency have been beautiful and fertile. I found Salvador a complex, sometimes contradictory and fascinating city, and Brazil a amazing place to reflect, work and explore the future. I really enjoyed being part of "Kauris", Tiago Sant'Ana's @tiagosantanaarte exhibition featuring my video "Transmutations" ; collaborating with the Pierre Verger Foundation @fundacaopierreverger on their next São Paulo exhibition and on upcoming projects ; moving forward with "Handroid" my project with @thedigitalearth about the digital wave in the Global South and performing with IKE @ike.beat at the Goethe Institute preparing for #BiennialSescVideobrasil in October. It was also wonderful to make friends with my fellow residents, Neo Muyanga, Ida Toninato @idatoninato, Tine Fetz @tinefetz, Nick Jongen @nikejoggen and the extraordinary team of #VillaSul (Manfred, Leo, Maria, Carmen and Rebekka, maximum thanks to you) Many thanks to @GoetheInstitutSalvador and to @videobrasil. #Brazil #Residency #GoetheInstitut #Salvador #Videobrasil #Future #Contexture #DigitalEarth #IKE #biennialsescvideobrasil (à Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwb7BY2jBOA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tmaeue4cr5zj

These last months in Salvador de Bahia at the Goethe Institut VillaSul residency have been beautiful and fertile. I found Salvador a complex, sometimes contradictory and fascinating city, and Brazil a amazing place to reflect, work and explore the future. I really enjoyed being part of "Kauris", Tiago Sant'Ana's @tiagosantanaarte exhibition featuring my video "Transmutations" ; collaborating with the Pierre Verger Foundation @fundacaopierreverger on their next São Paulo exhibition and on upcoming projects ; moving forward with "Handroid" my project with @thedigitalearth about the digital wave in the Global South and performing with IKE @ikeexperience at the Goethe Institute preparing for #BiennialSescVideobrasil in October. It was also wonderful to make friends with my fellow residents, Neo Muyanga, Ida Toninato @idatoninato, Tine Fetz @tinefetz, Nick Jongen @nikejoggen and the extraordinary team of #VillaSul (Manfred, Leo, Maria, Carmen and Rebekka, maximum thanks to you) Many thanks to @GoetheInstitutSalvador and to @videobrasil. #Brazil #Residency #GoetheInstitut #Salvador #Videobrasil #Future #Contexture #DigitalEarth #IKE #biennialsescvideobrasil (à Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwb7BY2jBOA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u798xuyz3vn2

Honored to be invited by Unesco to UN's  World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva. 🌍 I will talk about the intersection of digital art with the world's tangible and intangible heritages (of Benin in my work), transcultural spaces and global conversations, the second wave of the digital revolution, empowerment through global digital access and finally about the role of the artist in helping to reach sustainable development goals that are critical our collective survival.  #proud #talk #WSIS #UN #Unesco #Geneva #art #contemporaryart #digitalart #transcultural #africanart #DigitalEarth #benin #team229 #beninrepresent #contexture  (à Geneva, Switzerland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv_UTmpjSBB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v19m7grxdhse

Sunset in Salvador. Pure bliss after work. #intensebeauty #oceanic #transatlantic (à JAM no MAM) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtrPqgYHf1h/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7mjao4qlewp4

Iemanja party... Part II. Madness. #humongous #party #brazilforever https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZKvusofeD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ongd3lsg4r54

Celebrating Iemanja in Salvador de Bahia since dawn. Beautiful. #brasil #bahia #mamiwata #spiritual #devotion #transafrican #tradition (à Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtZAJroHPLv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4uif9u21oj76