Presentation by tatiana nascimento (Brazil)

Spoken word performance: Ilú, a trovão dentro / Ilú, die Sturm innen organized by Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Study Program. tatiana nascimento is poet, slammer, translator, film-maker and publisher. Talk after the presentation moderated by Marissa Lobo.

tatiana nascimento spoken word performances, poetic soundtracks and video-poems assume an aesthetics of screaming silence in which words, gestures and pauses merge to enlace and project tatiana nascimento?s own voice and expression as a turning point against the racist and homophobic historical silencing while avoiding victimization rhetoric. tatiana nascimento written poetry geometrically occupies the paper, leading to a verticalized visual word-playing where meanings and phonemes break to make and unmake sense. She establishes a dialogue with the diasporic fractures caused by the colonial kidnapping and exploitation of Black people in order to de-constructs / re-construct and remake narratives diffused within Afro-American context. This process of remembering, reinventing and recollecting also flows with rebuilding Oyá tales (that is Orishá of thunders and storms) that is a main work theme to tatiana nascimento, based on a cuíer/queer perspective rooted on her own experiences of blackness, fatness, sex(uality), trance.

CV: tatiana nascimento is founder of Padê Editorial, a publishing house for handmade books by Black authors, and also lesbian, bisexual, gay, trans* people, allies, two-spirited, brave hearts authors. Padê Editorial released in March 2016 its first poetry books: “{Penetra-fresta}”, from Barbara Esmenia (that is a Padê’s co-founder) and “lundu,” by tatiana nascimento. tatiana and Esmenia are working on three other upcoming poetry books – including a multilingual anthology of black poetelling in the Diaspora. In Brazil, tatiana nascimento runs two poetry slams: slam das minas, Brazilian first lesbian-and-women-only slam; and slam a coisa tá preta, first to black people only. In Vienna, she started, with Njideka Stephanie Iroh, sistah* slam, first poetry slam to black women/lesbian and lesbian/women of color in Vienna. She also sings and speaks poems with the musical group água, and is an activist doing workshops and lectures about self-care, community criticism and healing, creative and/or academic writing, and how to recognize and fight violence against lesbians.

soundcloud.com/tateann
facebook.com/pade.editorial

Performance sound scenarios by Luiza Schulz.

Presentation done in the context of and in collaboration with Njideka Stephanie Iroh and Marissa Lobo project “Bodies of Knowledge” – Multiplying Marginalized Subjectivities of Utopia through Art and Storytelling. Sponsored by SHIFT 2015.