Ann Mary Gollifer / Visual Arts / Sacatar Fellow 2024 / UK > Botswanawww.anngollifer.org My book “Views in the interior of Guyana,” begun in 2012 and completed in 2021, initiates a dialogue with the work by Robert Schomburgk, “Views in the interior of Guiana” published in 1841. His book recorded his first expedition to British Guiana for geographical, ethnological and botanical exploration on behalf of the Royal Geographical Society, London. Such was it’s success, Schomburgk was sent back to British Guiana to secure provisional eastern and western boundaries, with Venezuela and Suriname. He

Pieter Paul Pothoven / Visual Arts / Sacatar Fellow 2016 & 2018 / Netherlandspieterpaulpothoven.com Friends, comrades, colleagues, I would like to invite you to Every Act of Struggle: Intrusion and Assembly at De Appel in Amsterdam. This group exhibition is curated by School of Intrusions and the participating artists: Noor Abed, Chad Cordeiro, Simnikiwe Buhlungu and Pieter Paul Pothoven, with a spatial design by Iswanto Hartono. Every Act of Struggle: Intrusion and AssemblyDe Appel, Amsterdam, April 24 – May 24, 2025 There is an extensive public program,

(Derek Bermel | Sacatar Fellow 2007 | Music | USA) Derek will be performing on Thursday, March13, 2025 at 7:30pm at Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center with pianist Christopher Taylor, guitarist João Luiz Rezendo Lopes, and the Ying Quartet. ARTIST AS CURATORCurated by Derek Bermel TravelogueCLARICE ASSAD  –  HermeticSERGIO ASSAD  –  MignonianaDEREK BERMEL  –  String Quartet No. 2: Songs of Nameless Ancestors (New York Premiere)DEREK BERMEL  –  A Short History of the Universe (as related by Nima Arkani-Hamed)DEREK BERMEL  –  Turning
LEONARD BERNSTEIN  –  Sonata for Clarinet and PianoANDREIA PINTO CORREIA  –  Cantos

(Bia Gayotto | Sacatar Fellow 2018 | Video | Brazil ) Join me for the screening of my short experimental film selected for the Golden State Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatres 6 in Los Angeles.  To buy tickets go to https://www.goldenstatefilmfestival.com/tickets Scroll down to BLOCK K Films Screen FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14TH – THEATER 4 @ 4:00 PM Video Installation with sound, TRT 7 min. ​This short experimental film is inspired by a group of women mushroom foragers living on The Sea Ranch, Timber Cove and Anchor Bay, who embody

“Amazon” – Sculpture, beads, wax, resin, traditional fabrics, leather, Suzuki Ax 100 motorbike, plants /180 x 175 x 60 cm / Courtesy of the artist (Beya Gille Gacha | Sacatar Fellow 2024 | Visual Arts | France) Beya reinvents the traditional Bamileke beading technique in her series “When God is a Woman”, celebrating contemporary women artists. “Amazone”(Amazon) is a sculpture in this series, inspired by the musician and poet Daba Makourejah. It represents a motorcyclist who is symbolic of our race towards technological destruction. At

(Takuya Imahori | Sacatar Fellow 2024 | Music | Japan) Japanese composer Takuya Imahori, a Sacatar resident fellow in March 2024, completed his “Prima Sinfonia” during his time at Sacatar. The piece had its world premiere on November 27, 2024, performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.

Ayoade Balogun and her Sacatar cohorts visit Alberto Pitta’s studio in Salvador. (Ayoade Balogun | Sacatar Fellow 2024 | Visual Arts | Nigeria > USA | Partnership IDA-Stanford) Nigerian artist Ayoade Balogun first came to Bahia in 2024 as a resident at Instituto Sacatar during the IDA-Stanford session. As part of the program, Sacatar organized a visit to Alberto Pitta’s studio, where Balogun was introduced to the artist and his work.Specializing in textiles and indigo dyeing, Balogun was immediately drawn to Pitta’s decades-long practice in