fernando belote (MTL)
© Unlearning the paradigm of counteraction, fernando belote, 2022.
articule is please to welcome our second Special Project this season with a performance by our member fernando belote! The performance will take place in the articule gallery on February 11th and will be broadcasted on our platform on February 18th.
Unlearning the paradigm of counteraction is an unsettling performance where the artist test the meaning of words associated to political discourses as they relate to the disposition, reuse and recycling of everyday materials. With this project fern's role is to unravel capitalist predicaments that often naturalise nuances of grandiose narcissisms, community gentrification, dehumanization and social inequalities. Through carnivalesque actions, the artist politicizes the abstract realm of written language in a way to subvert sentiments that are often understood as childhood nostalgia as they are bombastically transformed into de-activators of consumerist desires and activators of critical thinking.
© kimura byol lemoine, 2022.
fernando belote is a Brazilian bixa-queer developing a conceptual, relational and recycling-based art practice in Tio'tia:ke / Montréal. Drawing from personal experiences of miscegenation, intergenerational trauma, domestic violence, neurodivergence and social segregation, the artist mobilizes a range of procedures to reframe everyday objects into a contracolonial and anti-fascist struggle. The goal is to neutralize the massifying and dehumanizing pursuit of capitalism by addressing how material disposition and semiological structures are constituents of the oppressive reality we live in. Aligned with these intentions, fern is currently involved in a collaborative research about the P(B)ajubá, a subversive and highly encoded dialect spoken by dissident corpas that are geographically located in the stolen land known as Brazil.
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