Oscar Murillo’s works are often linked to matters pertaining to cycles of labour: production, circulation, and consumption. In a polyphonic conglomerate, Murillo asks ten performers with knowledge of different languages to read translations of Parque Industrial, Romance Proletário, the seminal 1933 novella by Brazilian avant-garde writer Patrícia Galvão (1910–1962). Using the text as the input for a fragmentary reading, a piece in which poverty, racism, and different forms of exploitation are addressed in the context of the precarious working conditions present in textile factories, the performance spotlights the communities forming under geo- and sociopolitical forces present in Flight Drawings (2023), the artist’s site-specific intervention in HKW’s Miriam Makeba Auditorium as part of the O Quilombismo exhibition.

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Performers: 

Tomas Kutinjac (Croatian)
Julie Abricot (French)
Kaka Santa (Spanish)
Formosah (Portuguese)
Kumar Muniandy (German/Tamil/Malay)
Quang Nguyen-Xuan (Vietnamese)
Dominique Tegho (Arabic)
Jumoke Adeyanju (Swahili)
Nihan Kirmanoglu (Turkish)
Olivia Dowd (English)
Ilayda Öge (Turkish)

 

Translations: 

Arabic: Lucia Sheikho 
Croatian: Jelena Bulic
English: Elizabeth and K. David Jackson
French: Antoine Chareye
German: Franziska Kleybolte & Florian Neitmann 
Vietnamese: Luu Bich Ngoc 
Spanish: Martin Camps
Swahili: Jumoke Adeyanju 
Turkish: Nihan Kirmanoglu

Text: Patrícia Galvão, Parques Industrial, 1933