Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Gazes

The AMA Study Center at Artium Museoa serves as a research platform dedicated to contemporary art, the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and critical methodologies based on collaboration and experimentation, always aligned with the museum's exhibition program.

This public program, curated by Catalina Lozano in collaboration with artist Louidgi Beltrame, complements the eponymous exhibition and aims to expand its research scope. It explores performance art and films that engage with diasporic thought from various perspectives.

The program "Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Gazes" critically examines how moving images have influenced the construction of narratives and representations of "otherness," as defined by modern Western epistemology, giving rise to a diverse tradition of ethnographic cinema.

PROGRAM

March 13, 2026

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Room A2: Guided tour of the exhibition "Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Gazes" with curator Catalina Lozano and artist Louidgi Beltrame.
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Room A4: Performance NoirBLUE Conversión by Brazilian artist and choreographer Ana Pi. This piece explores imageries linked to the Atlantic Ocean, the African diaspora, and the memory of bodies in transit.

March 14, 2026

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Room A4: Workshop CORPO FIRME: peripheral dances, sacred gesture, led by Ana Pi. Participants will explore movement through "water tonalities" as a tool for new dances and imaginaries, drawing from Pi's NoirBLUE and The Divine Cypher (2021), and their dialogue with works by Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren concerning Haiti.
Registration: ikasketazentroa@artium.eus
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Auditorium: Screening of Édouard Glissant: One World in Relation (2009) followed by a conversation with its director, Manthia Diawara. The film documents Diawara's transatlantic conversations with philosopher Édouard Glissant, encapsulating Glissant's theories on Relation and the concept of *tout-monde*.
In collaboration with Maumaus / Lumiar Cité.

ATTENDANCE

All public program activities are free and open until full capacity is reached, with the exception of the workshop, which requires prior registration with a motivation letter (maximum 200 words) sent to ikasketazentroa@artium.eus.