Alliance Française, Buenos Aires - Gallery Av. Córdoba 946, City of Buenos Aires
Photography exhibition “Hybrid Self-Portraits” by ORLAN
Exhibition by the French visual artist ORLAN, from the series “African Self-Hybridization”, where she virtually transforms her face according to prevailing beauty canons in other civilizations. ORLAN is well-known for her performances, in which she has her body changed through surgical interventions in a search that goes against beauty stereotypes created by society while discussing gender issues.
Opening: Tuesday, May 30, 7 p.m. The exhibition will be available from May 30 to July 8, 2017. Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
From May 31, 2017
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Microcinema Gallery Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Photography exhibition “I Touch Your Skin”, by Manuela Aldabe Toribio
Exhibition made up of photographs of items of clothing that belonged to victims of femicide in Uruguay. “I come in slowly, asking for permission. I try to record what’s left of that woman, her footprint. When her mother, daughter or sister unfolds the item of clothing, there’s a display of affection that brings us closer to the rite. Those memories and that silence turn into mourning. When we bring those memories back together, I snap my shot. This is a research about absence and femicides. A research about what’s left: the survivors and the items they chose to keep.” Manuela Aldabe Toribio
The exhibition will be open from Wednesday, May 31 to Sunday, July 2, 2017. Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Workshop “Building Up a Cinematic Language”, taught by Jorge Sanjinés
Lecture #1: History of the Ukamau Group films. Lecture #2: Screening of excerpts from Jorge Sanjinés films in connection with his search for a cinematic language of his own. Lecture #3: Integral sequence shot (theory of a new cinematic language). Lecture #4: Screening of The Clandestine Nation + discussion. This workshop will be a shared activity with the International Film Festival of Political Cinema (FICiP), to be held from May 29th to June 1st, at Asociación de Personal Superior de las Empresas de Energía - APSEE. Limited openings. More information and registration: imimdnews@gmail.com
Workshop “Storytelling Techniques: Documenting with a Gender-Sensitive Approach”, taught by Maya Goded
This documentary production workshop coordinated by Maya Goded (Mexico) aims at discussing different approaches and tools available to document social facts (inspired by the “Ni Una Menos” mass demonstration), so as to come up with a group work plan to be developed during the two days of the workshop. The result will be screened at the Festival closing ceremony (Wednesday, June 7). Contents: Viewing of the artist’s work. Analysis of different views on the same story, fieldwork, production. Editing and presentation of the work. Intended for artists, photographers, writers, filmmakers, journalists, social communicators and anyone interested in gender affairs and documentaries. This workshop will be held on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4 at Sub Cooperativa de Fotógrafos. Limited openings.
Workshop “Building a Sustainable Career in Non-Fiction Filmmaking”, delivered by Chicken and Egg Pictures
Anchored with a case study about Chicken & Egg Pictures and their signature programs for women, this workshop will offer a range of strategies women directors have used to support themselves and build lasting careers. Coordinator: Yvonne Welbon (Chicken & Egg Pictures) This workshop will be held on Monday, June 5 at 7 p.m. at the Paco Urondo Cultural Center. Admission is free.
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones 25 de Mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Panel discussion with screening “Human Trafficking, Gender and Human Rights: Developments and Current Challenges”.
Human trafficking for sexual exploitation purposes is one of the worst types of violence against women in Argentina. After the conviction by a court in Tierra del Fuego on the case of Alika Kinán (first victim of human trafficking to start criminal proceedings against her abusers), a network of corruption and connivance involving the State, the police and the procurers was exposed once again. The Human Trafficking Prevention Act (Law 26.842) reveals significant shortcomings in terms of aid and protection policies, revealing a lack of actions to enable the social reintegration of women who were rescued from sexual exploitation. Screening: The Indolent Look, by Sebastián Camacho (19’). Guest lecturers: Alika Kinán (abolitionist movement activist, gender activist, feminist, founder of the Sapa Kippa Gender Institute, recovering survivor of human trafficking for sexual exploitation purposes), members of Mothers Victims of Human Trafficking, (an organization of relatives and friends of women made to disappeared in democracy, trafficked into prostitution, victims of human trafficking networks for sexual exploitation purposes), Graciela Vargas (Obstetrics graduate - University of Buenos Aires; master’s candidate - University of Vic, Barcelona; expert in Gender and Women’s Rights), Sebastián Camacho (director, The Indolent Look), Cecilia Dalla Cia (social worker, National Office of Social Readaptation), members of Movimiento Popular La Dignidad (La Domitila community bus project). Moderator: María Agustina Díaz (Political Science graduate, secretary of the Higher Council of the Autonomous University of Entre Ríos [UADER] and professor at UADER and University of Concepción del Uruguay [UCU]).
Alliance Française - Espace RENAULT Av. Córdoba 946, City of Buenos Aires
An interview with ORLAN
A comprehensive talk with ORLAN (visual and performance artist) about her career. Moderated by Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias (freelance Argentine curator and educator).
9.30 p.m.
Ciudad Cultural Konex - Gran Sala Sarmiento 3131, City of Buenos Aires
“Our Body, Our Territory” concert for diversity, against gender-based violence, and for women’s freedom to decide over their own bodies, identity and sexuality.
All proceeds will be donated to organizations that fight against violence towards women and carry out support, education, and training projects. Guest artists: Malena D’Alessio en Bandada, Noe Pucci, Ana Sol y La Candela, Sudor Marika, Las Taradas. Screenings: Couplets for an Everlasting Eve by Ageda Kopla Taldea,Crane by Wanda López Trelles, and more. More information: www.imd.org.ar - www.ciudadculturalkonex.org
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de las columnas 25 de Mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Video-performance and installation by Natacha Voliakovsky.
“Natacha Voliakovsky is a multitalented artist who experiments freely with performance, video and installation to convey a message about the sovereignty of the body and the essence of boundaries. Her actions give time and space a new uniqueness: extended exhibition periods, an absurd and demanding repetition; spaces that are built by uses rather than objects. That is what this artist’s semiotics of the body is all about: a body that does not exist before the action, a body that is shaped by the artistic act, leading us to the specificity of each space and each time in which the body—our body—is situated. At the FICDH, Voliakovsky will showcase, alongside an installation and a video-performance, the first edition of El Método de Entrenamiento en Performance (The Performance Training Method), in which she shows how she prepares to perform a site-specific action.”
Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias
8.30 p.m.
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones 25 de Mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Stage play Made in Lanús, by the Arte-Trans Cooperative.
The play is set in the ´80s. Its very title—Made in Lanús—reveals the coexistence of two realities, two territories (Philadelphia/Lanús), two languages (English/Spanish), two ways of living (more technology-based/less sophisticated) that are compared and mixed in the interactions. This dual reality highlights the inner dilemma Osvaldo and Mabel are facing. They both have different ways of coping with the weight of their world, and that tension crudely emerges with each encounter and each memory. Cast: Lucila Arias, Elías Machado, Emma Serna, Sebastián Máximo. Direction: Emma Serna. Production: Estefanía Menzel (Arte-Trans Cooperative).
7 p.m.
Arte X Arte gallery Lavalleja 1062, City of Buenos Aires
A conversation with Maya Goded.
Through photography, video and documentary filmmaking, Maya Goded (Mexico) has attempted to tell intimate stories that question preconceived ideas, revealing unknown realities and celebrating otherness. From her curiosity of different platforms and languages, she addresses gender, identity, violence and ancestral knowledge issues.
Plaza del Congreso Av. Rivadavia y Av. Callao, City of Buenos Aires
Visual intervention of the public space with Articiclo Argentina during the 3rd “Ni Una Menos” demonstration.
The Articiclo is a tool to promote “artivism”: art and political activism combined to advance social change from visual art in motion. Created by a group of artists in 2014, it consists of a tricycle with a box that contains a projector, a computer and a battery with the aim of intervening the public space through the projection of images. Members of Articiclo: Milena Pafundi (visual artist), Ángel Giovanni Hoyos (filmmaker and editor), Ángeles Cornejo (animator), Dolores Álvarez de Paola (photographer), Christian Gruenberg (feminist attorney). A selection of visual pieces will be projected during the 3rd “Ni Una Menos” demonstration. See event at www.imd.org.ar - www.facebook.com/articicloba
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Microcinema Gallery Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Photography exhibition “I Touch Your Skin”, by Manuela Aldabe Toribio Meeting with the photographer.
An overview of the exhibition “I Touch Your Skin” led by the photographer behind it, Manuela Aldabe Toribio, prompting a discussion and reflection on her work.
2 p.m.
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Casullo Room Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Discussion on Deaf cinema with FiCSor.
A seminar centered upon the promotion of Deaf culture through Deaf Cinema, using it as a basis to develop new accessibility projects. Audiovisual tools will be adapted to Deaf people, allowing us to analyze the development of audiovisual media for the Deaf community. Intended for professionals, educators and students within the audiovisual fields, Deaf people, their families, professionals linked to the Deaf community, individuals interested in the subject, etc.
4 p.m.
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Microcinema Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Screening of Athens, by César González (83’). Inclusive screening for Deaf people.
Post-screening discussion with the director and the producer.
4 p.m.
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Casullo Room Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Book presentation: Octubre Pilagá, memories and archives of the La Bomba massacre, by Valeria Mapelman + discussion with Pamela Yates about the trials over the Guatemalan genocide.
Octubre Pilagá, memories and archives of the La Bomba massacre (published by Tren en movimiento) is the result of an investigation in which memory and oblivion intertwine with images of a hidden genocide. A book that goes over the background and development of an event that took place under a democratically-elected government but that can only be understood as part of a genocidal process that began with the arrival of European immigrants to America, further developed by the Generation of ‘80 and carried on by the succeeding administrations. This process aimed at seizing indigenous lands, taking over labor and reducing survivors in colonies dominated the scene in 1947 and resulted in one of the greatest massacres in 20th century Argentina.
6 p.m.
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Casullo Room Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Panel discussion: “Institutional Violence and No to Lowering the Age of Criminal Responsibility”
The unlawful use of force, physical power and coercion by security forces, the police and other law-enforcement agents is understood as institutional violence. But there is a different type of violence, determined by the power-knowledge relation, which can be explicit, implicit, real or symbolic. In connection with that, the current political agenda includes a reform of the Juvenile Criminal Regulations, which reopens the discussion around whether to lower the age of criminal responsibility. This prompts a reflection on institutional violence as exercised against the youth, on the enjoyment of rights by children and adolescents, on public policy aimed at ensuring training and transformation tools and spaces towards an inclusive, egalitarian society that treats them as actors and subjects of rights. Guests: César González (a.k.a. Camilo Blajaquis, Argentine poet director of Athens), members of La Garganta Poderosa, María Elena Naddeo (General Director of Childhood, Adolescence, Gender and Diversity of the Office of the Ombudsman and member of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, APDH), Julián Axat (head of the Department of Access to Justice of the Office of the Attorney General), Manuel Tufró (coordinator of the Democratic Security and Institutional Violence Team of the Center for Legal and Social Studies, CELS).
6 p.m.
Haroldo Conti Cultural Centre for Remembrance - Microcinema Av. del Libertador 8151, City of Buenos Aires
Screening of 500 Years, by Pamela Yates (108’). Inclusive screening for Deaf people
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones 25 de Mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Discussion: “Sex Work and Labor Rights”
In our country, independent sex work is not punishable by law but lacks a regulatory framework that acknowledges it as a right. Misdemeanor laws still forbid the use of the public space, enabling institutional violence. This has prompted us to hold a debate concerning the need for an autonomous sex work act to regulate the voluntary exercise of sex work and promote actions against discriminatory practices workers in the sector are subject to. Guests: Emmanuel Theumer (CONICET/UNL), María Riot (sex worker and member of the Argentine association of women sex workers AMMAR), Cherry Veccio (sex worker and camgirl). Moderator: Ariela Schnitman (master’s in Social Policy, professor, researcher, Public Innovation Office, Province of Buenos Aires).
7 p.m.
Paco Urondo Cultural Center - Salón de los balcones 25 de Mayo 201, City of Buenos Aires
Meeting: “Views in the first person: Our body, our territory. Women through art, journalism and activism”.
For centuries, our bodies, our identities and the world around us have been defined and viewed from an outside perspective. But, in the search for self-representation, that outsider’s view has been transforming into multiple intimate and unique views thanks to the action, denunciation and voice of great women. Empowered women, interpreters of their own reality. Guests: Nora Cortiñas (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Founding Line), Victoria Solano (filmmaker, director of the documentary 9.70), Agustina Paz Frontera (poet, journalist, screenwriter, documentarist and member of the “Ni Una Menos” movement), Mariela Scafati (queer serigraphist, painter and activist), Imelda Daza Cotes (spokeswoman for the movement Voices for Peace and Reconciliation, FARC delegate before the Colombian House of Representatives). Moderator: Mabel Bellucci (queer feminist activist, essayist and journalist).
Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires - Aula Magna Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
FINCA Day in collaboration with the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty. School of Nutrition, UBA.
12 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires - Aula Magna Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
FINCA FAIR
As part of a whole day devoted to FINCA, we will hold the traditional FINCA Fair, including stalls run by independent producers, organic foods, handicrafts and items made from recycled and waste materials.
1 p.m.
Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires - Aula Magna Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
Opening of FINCA Day
Reading of the International Court of Justice sentence against Monsanto. The International Monsanto Tribunal, which took place in October 2016, is an international civil society initiative to hold the multinational corporation Monsanto accountable for human rights violations, crimes against humanity and ecocide. Over a thousand associations, together with victims, environmentalists, physicians and technical experts around the world gave their testimonies. Guests: Miryam Gorban (degree in Nutrition, Chief Coordinator of the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty, FMED - UBA, School of Nutrition, UBA. Honorary Head of the Executive Board of Doctors of the World, Argentina), Damián Verzeñassi (physician, university professor, head of the Socio-Environmental Health Institute, School of Medical Sciences, UNR; head of the Medicine program, UNCAus; member of the South American Association of Social Medicine, ALAMES, and of the People’s Health Movement), María Liz Robledo (professor, witness of the first international legal action against Monsanto held in The Hague).
2 p.m.
Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires - Aula Magna Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
Panel discussion with screening: “Strategies Against the Global Agrifood System and Its Local Impact”.
Food nowadays relies on a globalized, industrialized and marketized agrifood system more and more linked to financial speculation and incapable of ensuring people around the world will have enough food to eat. This hegemonic production, distribution and consumption model responsible for biodiversity loss, climate change and increasing soil, water and health damage everywhere, hiding silenced violence and realities, such as child labor, caregiving by women and the disappearance of peasantry and family-based agriculture. The panel aims at showing different realities within a Latin American context, highlighting collective action strategies based on agroecology and food sovereignty to face the negative impacts of agrifood capitalism. Screening: Jesser and the Sugarcane, by Godelieve Eijsink (15’). Guests: Silvia Ribeiro (researcher and Latin American coordinator for the ETC Group), Maró Guerrero (Director of Fundación Desarrollo y Autogestión in Argentina), Silvia Papuccio de Vidal (PhD in Natural Resources, expert in gender, environment and food, ECOSUR Foundation and agroecology vocational school at Granja La Verdecita). Moderator: Marcos Filardi (lawyer, specialized in human rights and food sovereignty, University of Buenos Aires, member of the Independent Study Program on Food Sovereignty, School of Nutrition, UBA)
4 p.m.
Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Buenos Aires - Aula Magna Paraguay 2155, City of Buenos Aires
Screening of Seeds: Common or Corporate Property?, by Ignacio Cirio (35’)
Post-screening discussion with the director and the producer.
