The AMA Study Centre at Artium Museoa is a platform that works in close relation with the museum’s exhibition programme to provide a space for research in the contemporary art and the formats of production and expansion of knowledge and  critical research methodologies based on collaboration and experimentation.

In the framework of the exhibition of the same name, curated by Catalina Lozano and supported by conversations with artist Louidgi Beltrame, this public programme seeks to broaden the scope of the exhibition's research by exploring performance and film works in which diasporic thinking unfolds in different ways. Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Looks explores artistic practices that critically and speculatively reflect on the role of the moving image in the construction of narratives and representations of otherness —constructed and defined by the West based on an entire epistemological apparatus derived from modernity—, which constituted a diverse tradition of ethnographic cinema.

With Louidgi Beltrame (Marsella, 1971), Manthia Diawara (Mali, 1953), Catalina Lozano (Bogotá, 1979) and Ana Pi (Brasil, 1986).

PROGRAMME

13 March 
6-7 pm. A2 Gallery
Guided tour of the exhibition Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Looks by Catalina Lozano, curator, and Louidgi Beltrame, artist

7-8 pm. A4
Performance NoirBLUE Conversión by Brazilian artist and choreographer Ana Pi.

This piece is part of a choreographic project initiated in 2016 that explores imaginaries linked to the Atlantic Ocean, the African diaspora and the memory of bodies in transit.

March 14 
11 am to 1 pm. A4 Gallery
Ana Pi. Workshop: CORPO FIRME: danzas periféricas, gesto sagrado

In this creative practice participants will experiment with different dynamics of movement and rhythm drawn from traditions of the African diaspora and choreographic references such as Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren.

Registrations: ikasketazentroa@artium.eus

6 to 7.30 pm. Auditorium
Screening of Édouard Glisant: One world in relation (Manthia Diawara, 2009) and conversation with Diawara.

In 2009, filmmaker Manthia Diawara, along with his camera, documented his conversations with Martinican philosopher, writer, and poet Édouard Glissant aboard the Queen Mary II on their transatlantic journey from Southampton, England to New York City. This intellectual voyage encapsulates Glissant’s life’s work and studies on his theory of Relation and the concept of Tout-monde, amongst several other of his philosophical suppositions.“Every diaspora is the passage from unity to multiplicity.”

In collaboration with Maumaus / Lumiar Cité.

Rapporteur: Paola Buontempo

Louidgi Beltrame (Marsella, 1971) develops a practice at the crossroads of cinema and contemporary art. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in Europe and Latin America and has been presented in major institutions and international biennials, as well as at film festivals. In 2026, he participates in the group exhibition Looking through a Circle in a Circle of Looks as a guest artist and associate researcher with curator Catalina Lozano at Artium Museoa, the Chengdu Biennale, and the film festival Cinéma du Réel in Paris.

Manthia Diawara (Mali, 1953) is a distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Film at New York University. Diawara is a prolific writer and filmmaker. His essays on art, cinema and politics have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, LA Times, Libération, Mediapart, October and Artforum. He is the author of two acclaimed memoirs: In Search of Africa (Harvard University Press, 2000) and We Won’t Budge: An African in the World (Basic Books, 2008). Diawara’s notable films include Angela Davis: A World of Greater Freedom (2023), AI: African Intelligence (2022) and Negritude: A Dialogue between Soyinka and Senghor (2016).

Catalina Lozano (Bogotá, 1979) is teh curator of the exhibition Looking Through a Circle in a Circle of Looks and chief curator at Artium Museoa, where she has developed projects with Mariana Castillo Deball, Jutta Koether, Carolina Caycedo, Patricia Dauder, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Josu Bilbao, among others. Previously, as an independent curator, her research has focused on practices that question hegemonic forms of knowledge in curatorial and editorial projects.

Ana Pi (xxxx, Brasil, 1986) is a choreographer and “imagery” artist, currently working from France. Her practice draws on the regenerative layers and radical imagination of the Transatlantic African Diaspora. She develops research on ancestral dances and their contemporary peripheral forms, working simultaneously as a dancer, pedagogue, space-maker, and writer. Rooted in the material study of gestures transmitted and transformed across landscapes, borders, politics, archives, and living bodies, her work examines their philosophical and futural potential. In 2025, she premieres ATOMIC JOY with original music by Chassol and has collaborated with Julien Creuzet at HKW Berlin.  

All activities in this public programme are free to attend until full capacity is reached, except for the workshop, for which prior registration is required at ikasketazentroa@artium.eus with a letter of motivation (200 words).

Certificate of participation
It is possible to request a certificate attesting to participation in the programmes required.
The request must be made to ikasketazentroa@artium.eus prior to the start of the corresponding programme.