Grada Kilomba: Artist Talk
Talk with Grada Kilomba and Alex D’Alva Teixeira
Artist Grada Kilomba expands on the themes of the exhibition The Bottom of the Earth in conversation with musician and artist Alex D’Alva Teixeira.
General Information
Schedule: 28.06, 15:30–17:30
Language: Portuguese
Age: All ages
Capacity: 90 people
Free entry.
About Grada Kilomba
Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese artist whose work interrogates concepts of memory, trauma, violence and historical repetition. Kilomba is best known for her subversive and unique practice of storytelling, in which she gives body, voice, form and movement to silenced stories – using performance, dance, video, text, sculpture, installation and sound landscapes.
In her immersive large-scale works, Kilomba exercises what she describes as ‘poetic disobedience’, a mode in which radical poetic images interrupt the collective imaginary and the cycle of prevalent historical violence, both in narratives and architectures, inside and outside, in the public space.
About Alex D’Alva Teixeira
Alex D’Alva Teixeira is an artist based in Lisbon with Brazilian and Angolan roots. He develops an interdisciplinary practice spanning music, performance, and the performing arts.
He collaborates with the company Teatro Praga and is part of the Lisbon-based ensemble of artist Grada Kilomba. He is currently developing LIVRE, a solo project that blends pop songwriting with electronic music and Afro-diasporic references.
He is the vocalist and lyricist of D’ALVA and maintains an active practice as a DJ, being a regular presence at the booth of Lux Frágil.
