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Em Busca de Lélia / In Search
of Lélia
URe:AD TV (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora Television)
Screening Room - Michigan Theater
Sat, Mar 24, 2018 2:45 PM
URe:AD TV is a transmedia “network” produced through a global open call for media and comprising fresh, contemporary audiovisual work by and for the African diaspora. Challenging the narrow, stereotypical, and banal aspects of both popular media and art-institutional framing of Black representation, URe:AD TV grows and changes with new submissions, producing new work with artists in the cities on its tour. Curated by Shani Peters and Sharita Towne.
Lélia Gonzalez. Following the footsteps of this name, I begin the search for my ancestry and to portray it. Professor and anthropologist; woman ahead of her time; a protagonist in activism as part of the Black Movement in the 1970s and 1980s, the period during which she traveled through various cities and countries, always affirming her identity and denouncing the myth of racial democracy. A symbol of resistance and the struggle for the rights of indigenous people, Black people, and women. The fondness of Lélia guides me along the way. – BV
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