Taking Part in Festivities of one Hundred Years Ago / Dear Miriam

Miriam Aprigio, Raphaël Grisey

In: Standpunkt der Aufnahme / Point of view

Ed.: Tobias Hering

Publisher

Archive Books & Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst

Standpunkt der Aufnahme / Point of view

2014
Archive Books & Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst

2011 / 2013

After I graduated in History I began attending a post-graduate course. I am now doing a specialization in science and cultural politics with the aim of contributing to the construction of an as yet unrealized quilombola cultural politics. This is a passion I have had since I was young. Always. I do not relate to people of my generation. My relationships are linked to the past as if I had lived with my great-grandma and my great-aunt; as if I had taken part in festivities which happened at the beginning of the last century.

I have a strong connection to them even though I didn’t know them. When I was a child, there were still a lot of houses from the time of my great-grandma. The place had a lot of forest vegetation, so it had the sense of the origin of the territory. I grew up in this ambience and this was always part of me.

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