Posts in the Category: MA

“I am Mexico”

By Posted in - MA & Video on September 29th, 2015 0 Comments

For two months this summer, I went back to Mexico City for my fieldwork. Back to the place which already fascinated me three years ago. Now, when writing this, I am back again in Manchester and will put together some…

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Duende. First Fieldnotes

By Posted in - MA & Video on September 26th, 2015 0 Comments

Almost two months ago, I started a project trying to represent what some people understood to be the idea of Duende, a term used in Spanish Flamenco which seems to represent the capacity it has to fascinate and move people…

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The Right Man for the Job

By Posted in - MA & Photography on September 24th, 2015 0 Comments

This summer, I returned to my hometown for fieldwork in a Chinese hospital. The hospital accepted me as an “informal trainee”, which means I could observe all the healing and teaching activities taking place. Images © Zhouyi Jiang Recently my…

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Day 12 around Teulada

By Posted in - MA on September 21st, 2015 0 Comments

Day 12 around Teulada, extreme south of Sardinia, Italy. Here, I am closer to Africa than Europe. You can tell from the birds that I have never seen wild before in my country, like hummingbirds, flamingos and storks. The heat…

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Griot

By Posted in - MA & Video on January 27th, 2015 0 Comments

Kevin Dalton-Johnson is a British international artist who explores his African and Jamaican diasporic identity through clay. His sculptures can be considered as griots, West African historians or storytellers, repositories of oral tradition. Like many others living nowadays with the…

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