Gian Spina

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Gian Spina is a writer, researcher and artist. He has taught in institutions such as the International Art Academy Palestine, and the Escola da Cidade (São Paulo). Today he is learning Arabic, and attempting to construct an interdisciplinary body of work on the materialization of power in the public sphere. He was part of the residency program between Capacete and Documenta 14 in Athens (2017) and recently at MMAG Foundation in Amman (2018).
He now lives in Cairo and teaches at CILAS (Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science).
His work can be seen at http://gianspina.com.

Dissident Geographies: São Paulo, Athens, and Beyond

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Queer City (13/20)

Dissident Geographies: São Paulo, Athens, and Beyond

Written by Jarri Castro and Marta Echaves, Photographs by Gian Spina

Who would be a good queer citizen? Imagining a city, otherwise, through queer performance.

Qalandiya International — A Palestinian Biennial

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Articles & Essays

Qalandiya International — A Palestinian Biennial

By Gian Spina

the dove’s collara star abandoned on the roofand a winding alley leading to the portThis sea is mineThis sea air is mine —Mahmoud Darwish1 In Palestine, the impossibility of artistic

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Pedagogy, Otherwise (2/27)

Ribeiro’s New Social Sculpture

By Gian Spina

[APN_Note] “I said, if they come with tanks I still will keep on teaching.” -Joseph Beuys, 1972 (in front of the Arts Academy in Düsseldorfas—the police tried to expel him)