They Won’t Kill Us Now

“How to unmake what they make me?” With this and other questions, Jota Moçamba points to horizons glimpsing the importance of existing and performing amidst the wounds left by colonialism. They Won’t Kill Us Now is a space for experimentation, making words and bodies tools for criticism, power and fight. The reflections forged in this book witness an original interdisciplinary knowledge production, permeated by permanent tensions where the author attempts to rethink the world as we know it, proposing alternatives and transformation towards the new. It’s about stating the resistance of bodies surveilled by controlling systems. Bodies that stay on their feet in spite of the adversities of an environment dominated by oppressive patterns, the obsession for labelling and denying them, in a useless attempt to capturing them.

“I remember working as if I was running. Running towards an illusion of comfort and stability, trying to save myself from things from which I can’t be saved. And I also remember working like I could achieve the necessary speed to cross yet unbuilt bridges; as if, by running, I could exist between asymmetrical worlds.” – Jota Mombaça

About the author
Jota Mombaça was born in Natal, in 1991, and lives and works between Fortaleza, Lisbon and Berlin. Through performance, visionary fiction and situational strategies for production, she intends to rehearse the end of the world as we know it and the figuration of what will come after we knock modern colonialism from its podium. In 2020 she concluded an artistic residency at the prestigious Pernod Ricard Fellowship, in Paris, and made the film O que não tem espaço está em todo lugar, invited by Instituto Moreira Salles. In September 2020, she inaugurated a solo exhibition, Atravessar a Grande Noite Sem Acender a Luz, at Centro Cultural São Paulo. In the same year, she was part of collective exhibitions Rethinking Nature, at Museo Madre, Napoli, PoetArtists/ArtistPoets, at MIF, Manchester, and Illiberal Arts, at HKW, Berlin. Mombaça was also part of the 34th São Paulo Biennale, Faz Escuro Mas Eu Canto, and of the Sydney Biennale, both in 2020, as well as the 2017-2018 Berlin Biennale and the 2016 São Paulo Biennale. From 2021 to 2023, she’s part of an artistic residency in Rijsakademie, Amsterdam.

About the collection
The Crossroads collection intends to build a landscape of Brazilian and foreign authors working with contemporary issues such as antiracisms, feminisms and decolonial thoughts. Edited by José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo, a Doctor of Philosophy and professor at ECA/USP, the collection presents authors who think about the present, attempting to shed a light on how certain processes, as they're faced, understood and transformed, can change historical perception.

Specifications
Author Jota Mombaça
Collection Crossroads Collection
Editor José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo
Language Portuguese
Page count 144
ISBN 9786556910260
Cover Thiago Lacaz
Format Softcover
Size 14 x 21 cm
Year 2021