BL CK B X: Ana Vaz The Voyage Out
Opening Event

Ana Vaz (1986, Brasília) is an artist and filmmaker whose films, installations and performances explore complex relationships between environments, territories and hybrid histories pushing the boundaries of our perception. Her films have been showed internationally in film festivals and institutions such as the Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, Jeu de Paume, New York Film Festival, TIFF Wavelengths, BFI, Cinéma du Réel, TABAKALERA, Courtisane, amongst others. Specific focuses on her work have been developed in seminars and gatherings such as the Flaherty Seminar (USA), TIFF Lightbox (Canada), Doc’s Kingdom (Portugal), Curto Circuito Film Festival (Spain) and Massart Film Society (USA). Her work has recently featured in group shows such as “Eco-visionaries” at MAAT (Portugal), “What are the Clouds?” at WKV Stuttgart, Moscow Biennial of Young Art and Espace Khiasma (France). Ana is also a founding member of the collective COYOTE along with Tristan Bera, Nuno da Luz, Elida Hoëg and Clémence Seurat, a cross-disciplinary group working in the fields of ecology, ethnology and political science through an array of cross-cutting platforms. In 2015, she was the recipient of the Kazuko Trust Award presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in recognition of artistic excellence and innovation in her moving-image work.

Nuno da Luz (1984, Lisboa) is an artist and publisher, whose work circumscribes both aural and visual in the form of performances, installations and printed matter; distributing the latter through the small press ATLAS Projectos. In 2015, he completed the Master Program of Experimentation in Art and Politics at Sciences Po, Paris, and founded COYOTE, a cross-cutting collective working on print, film, lectures and other experimental forms. Recent projects include performing live with Assisted Resonance in Madrid, Ficarra, Paris, Porto, New York and Berlin, as well as solo shows RWSNK ECHOS, Kunstraum Botschaft (Berlin, 2017) and Sud e magia, Syntax (Lisboa, 2016). Alongside the filmmaker Ana Vaz, they’ve been developing the “Voyage Out Radio Series: 2222 ∞ 2022,” a sonic exploration of her film to come, as a transmission, with episodes broadcast on R22 Tout le monde, NTS, and Jeu de Paume Espace Virtuel.

Olivier Marbœuf is an author, performer, curator and founder of the independent art centre Espace Khiasma in the greater Paris area (Les Lilas, 93). As director there since 2004, he has developed a programme of exhibitions, screenings, conversations and performances focusing on societal issues. His work is articulated around the problematic of the relation between text or voice, fixed or moving image and, more generally, issues of transmission. For some years now, his research has focused particularly on a rereading of colonialism based on the principles of narrative speculation that clashes with the dominant historical narrative. Closely involved in artists’ cinema, he is also founder and producer at Spectre Productions, a cinema company based in France.