Bocafloja to visit Pittsburgh

Monday – 17th	Tuesday – 18th	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Arrival   4-6:50 Visit to the LCAL Senior Seminar course.	12:30-1:50 Visit to LCAL 3rd cinema class.         An Evening with Bocafloja: Performance and Workshop con SALSA  6-9:30 @ The Center CDSI.	AM - Tour of Pittsburgh   12:30 Lunch and roundtable conversation with faculty co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts in Society     Screening of Bravado Magenta at the Studio for Creative Inquiry     Dinner with faculty- TBD	11:00 Visit to Professor Tardio's HSP (Humanities Scholar's Program) class.   1:15-3 Visit to CAPA (Creative and Performing Arts School –	Departure

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 25 years in more than 40 countries, positioning him as a leading voice within artistic communities in the Spanish speaking diaspora, being recognized 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, emphasizing in the artistic and political possibilities of discourse and subjectivity.  

He has also been featured in PBS, NPR, BBC, OnceTV, Canal Catorce, Folha de S. Paulo, Afropunk and Okayplayer, amongst other media outlets globally.

 

 

 

Bravado Magenta is a  short documentary which articulates itself as a cartography of racialized masculinities through a transversal analysis on coloniality.

 

Visual poetry, non-linear narratives and provocative film aesthetics illustrate the constitution of Bravado Magenta as a theatrical exercise of self-representation, challenging traditional schemes of documentary filmmaking.

 

Bravado Magenta is a deep journey into the political discursivity of the body, with testimonials from Devyn Springer, Zoé Samudzi, Fabián Villegas, Njoki wa Ngugi, Rodolfo Rensoli, Zahira Kelly amongst others.

 

Written and Directed by interdisciplinary artist and scholar Bocafloja (Nana Dijo, 2016), Cinematographed by Juan L. Azpiri and Cambiowashere, Bravado Magenta engages in a relevant discussion on sexuality, gender and global south studies.