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Tania Safura Adam
Pan-African Orogeny presents an iteration of Tania Safura Adam’s ongoing research and archival work as it unfolds at MACBA, within the framework of the exhibition Projecting a Black Planet. To navigate this constellation of documents, we compiled a series of audio segments—written and read by Tania Safura Adam herself, that allow a kind of situated listening. In note form, Tania traces a topography of ideas, struggles, and tensions that run like a thread through this “complex ideological polyphony”: from the Founding Fathers to the Civil War and Pan-Africanism, by way of Black workers, to the Tricontinental Conference (1966) and in the African diasporas in Spain.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments from our conversation with researcher, writer, and curator Tania Safura Adam. Here, she reflects on the inner drive in the face of injustice, writing as a form of healing, and the need to protect one’s own time. We also talk about the personal and collective implications of assimilation, denial, and trauma within the context of the African diaspora and migrant life, sharing family experiences that connect Mozambique, Lisbon, and Madrid. Kizombando the past, she also shares how music, literature, and art help to recognize what one tries to forget: to understand and share experiences.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with filmmaker and urbanist Tareq Khalaf. He reflects on life between Palestine, the US, Uganda, and South Africa, and what these journeys reveal about colonial legacies and liberation. Tareq speaks about South Africa as a mirror for Palestine, the wisdom of rooted figures like his great-aunt Azziza, and how land, memory, and struggle connect across contexts, raising vital questions of exile, belonging, and the shared pursuit of justice and freedom.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with artist, researcher and essayist Cornelia Sollfrank. Here she reflects on the social experiment of cyberfeminism and the early days of net art, as well as on aesthetics of the commons and the copyright system, probing how notions of originality, intellectual property, and collective practice shape contemporary art. By revisiting feminist performance histories and examining the affective infrastructures of digital culture, her work articulates a techno-feminist perspective that unsettles conventional discourses on art, law, and power.
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We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with architect, artist, and curator Paulo Tavares. Reflections that address the role of museums as spaces that shape public discourse, their involvement and relationship with ecology, sustainability, and the climate crisis, and how they can avoid falling into greenwashing rhetoric.