1991) series, Maggic Cube, which is dominated by the recognisable bright yellow and red of the product’s packaging. This online initiative is a rare positive to come out of the coronavirus crisis, opening the show up to global audiences.Įlsewhere, a stock cube inspires Italo-Senegalese artist Adji Dieye’s (b.
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Each artist’s series is displayed separately, with images sequenced, curated and enhanced through motion graphics, voiceovers, video and text. In addition to a physical show at Foam’s Amsterdam gallery, work by the 19 winning artists – all aged under 35 and selected from 1600 entries to an open call – is available to view worldwide on a dedicated digital platform. Covid-19 restrictions and uncertainty prompted the Netherlands-based photographic organisation to take a different approach. Normally, Foam Talent runs as an international touring exhibition, with stops in London and Paris. It’s a process that puts agency into the hands of young women they are authors of their own images, showing their playfulness, friendship and creativity. The pictures borrow something from the language of documentary, but they’re also semi-staged. Through workshops, she collaborated with students to co-create images offering a counter-narrative to mainstream media representations. Minh-ha’s aim “not to speak about/Just speak nearby” ( Reassemblage, 1983), Gambo took a poetic approach to her project, Tatsuniya. Inspired by Vietnamese documentarist Trinh T. 1986) portraits of female final year students, taken in 2017 at the newly reopened school, are part of this year’s Foam Talent, which, for the first time, is available online. For two years, classrooms were empty, playgrounds silent. The government responded by shutting most state secondary schools.
The attack was one of many on school children by the militant group, whose name translates as “Western education is forbidden.” A year later, 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram from a school in Chibok. This entry was posted in Documentary, Feature Film and tagged African American women, Hip Hop on by sfortun1.On 18 March 2013, six Boko Haram gunmen opened fire on students and staff at Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Government Secondary School in Maiduguri, north east Nigeria, killing two and injuring three. This music will reveal truths about the society we live in, and it is important that these truths are coming from the mouths of women.įor more information please visit the websites below: The voiceover of Erykah Badu tells us how the most beautiful music comes from pain, originating in the Blues and jazz. The refusal to be ignored is apparent even within the first shot of the film. Say My Name asks us to pay attention to the names of these women, as colorful as their names are, as they tell us their stories. The commonality of the MCs’ goals is indicative even within the title of the film. The film exemplifies the diaspora of hip-hop and shows that no matter where you’re from or how successful you are, female artists in hip-hop have one voice made up of many voices that share the experience of struggling through oppression in an urban society, battling misogyny, and the burdens of womanhood. There are immigrants to New York from other countries like Trinie from Trinidad, as well as MCs from Canada, Detroit, and Atlanta. In London, we have Estelle with Neo-Soul and the GTA crew demonstrating grime. From New York there’s Queen Latifa and Monie Love, to Sparky Dee, Roxanne Shante and newcomer Chocolate Thai. Peled accumulated a multitude of artists all over the world from all walks of life. Say My Name, directed by Nirit Peled, is a feature documentary about female MCs in the music industry. And their successes can not be measured by the payouts, but by the stories they bring to life, and the impressions they leave behind…”
“The voice of female hip-hop is not the voice of a single woman, but countless women.
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