Re/presenting Europe is honoured to welcome BocaFloja for an evening celebrating his multifaceted artistic journey.
Join us for a screening of Después de Mañana, an intimate documentary that explores BocaFloja’s evolution as an artist while addressing themes such as cultural industries, colonialism, migration, Islam, hip hop, and raciality.
Following the screening, BocaFloja will share excerpts from his newly released book, Del Mondongo al Ojalá, a captivating collection of short stories, non-linear narratives, poetry, and photography, focusing on futurity as a space for political possibility.
Date: 09th October 2024
Time: 19h30-21h30
Location: Academiegebouw Utrecht University, Kanunnikenzaal, Domplein 29
More about Bocafloja:
Bocafloja is an interdisciplinary artist of afro-indigenous descent based in Atlanta, GA. Bocafloja’s mediums of creation include documentary filmmaking, music, literature and photography. His body of work addresses topics such as the Global South, decoloniality, critical race theory and the African Diaspora in Latin America.
Bocafloja has presented and performed extensively for over 20 years in more than 35 countries, positioning him as a leading voice within artistic communities in the Spanish speaking diaspora, being recognised as one of the first artists in Latin America who utilized Rap and Poetry as an effective model of critical pedagogy amongst impoverished and racialized communities.
Bocafloja is listed as one of the 50 most relevant Hip Hop artists in the history of Spanish language Hip Hop according to Rolling Stone Magazine and Billboard.
Bocafloja has directed three critically acclaimed documentaries (Nana Dijo, 2016, Bravado Magenta, 2020, Enclave, 2023) gaining international notoriety within the independent and art-house film circuit.
Bocafloja’s approach to filmmaking engages in a practice of self-cartography through non-linear narratives, aesthetic juxtaposition and intimacy.
Following the tradition of Third Cinema, Bocafloja engages in the continuous practice of visual poetry, emphasising in the artistic and political possibilities of discourse and subjectivity.
