The Films of Brbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca Wagner Brbara
The Films of Brbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca Wagner Brbara The Brazilian German artist duo of B rbara Wagner (born 1980) and Benjamin de Burca (born 1975), formed in 2011, counter the impulse to…
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The Films of Brbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca Wagner Brbara
The Brazilian German artist duo of B rbara Wagner (born 1980) and Benjamin de Burca (born 1975), formed in 2011, counter the impulse to categorize culture in terms that are fixed--or deemed "folk" by organizations such as UNESCO--by exploring cultural change across generations and geographies. Through their films, the artists examine a space in between, where cultural forms of the past adapt in response to changing economic conditions--particularly in emerging economies or postcolonial geographical contexts--and where popular genres persist through cultural mixing and diasporic refashioning. Their work celebrates and reframes vernacular cultural forms as they have manifested through time; as popular traditions become pop culture, for instance.
The artists look to how performative forms of colonial cultural resistance in Brazil's northeast, in particular, continue today but in revised