*New podcast: In this conversation, Marie Hélène Pereira and Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy—two key members of Raw Material Compan <https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-337-raw-material-company>y—discuss a situated feminist and decolonial practice that focuses on doing rather than enunciating and categorizing. *
Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-337-raw-material-company Based in Dakar, Senegal, Raw Material Company is an independent, collaborative centre that aims to foster critical thinking through artistic practice. The project was founded in 2008 at the initiative of curator Koyo Kouoh, with a socially committed, pan-African, translocal vision and a programme that revolves around the research, promotion and dissemination of contemporary culture in and from Africa. From the perspective of the RAW Material Company, curatorial practice is an expanded exercise in knowledge production that goes beyond exhibitions. It encompasses artistic education and public programmes, as well as residencies, a library, an archive, publications, and even podcasts. All these tools are used to weave networks and communities that implement critical thought from a perspective of collectivity and care in which fragility and vulnerability are understood as a crack and a source of power to generate change. Marie Hélène Pereira and Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy share some of their experiences and talk about the strategies they use to create rich forms of dialogue and to negotiate the tensions and the ideological and economic constraints imposed through the still-colonial structures of the so-called global North. Actions that can be as small as opening up a space in which to be together, to unlearn and rethink the emancipatory possibilities that art can offer society. This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. Timeline 00:01 Institutional sustainability in a cultural ecosystem 02:37 Intro 05:01 An expanded curatorial practice: dialogue and relationships. 08:36 Space as a necessity: Raw Material Company, founded in Dakar in 2011 13:04 A time to process and digest: stopping the production machine 16:38 The need of new terminologies: every time the term decolonial is used a puppy dies. 19:59 Bringing the conversation back to your own context 21:42 Programming from a panafrican perspective 32:00 Adapt and adjust: The morning after the crisis. Our podcast is also part of our program. 39:56 Against academic hierarchies 45:51 Learning to ask the right questions 47:25 Relearning 50:10 Unlearning 51:16 The value of different kind of knowledges and practices 52:37 Conversations and exchange: a space where disagreement and failure are allowed. 54:08 Who said it was simple? 69:17 Solidarity, trust, care and alliances 72:46 Hacking the system? Resistance, resilience and moving forward 73:45 The fragility of the structures of cultural institution on a pandemic 77:53 We have hope, we need hope! *E/N/J/O/Y/* *+* *TAKE CARE!*
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