The 15th edition of Flup: A Festa Litéraria das Periferias [FLUP: The Literary Festival of the Peripheries] takes place from November 19 to 23, and from November 27 to 30, 2025. [Also see our previous post, Flup 2025.] Organized around the theme “Ideias para Reencantar o Mundo: Escrevivências, Sonhos e Batidões” [Ideas to Re-enchant the World: Life/Writings, Dreams, and Beats], the festival includes an exhibition on the life, work, and legacy of Martinican thinker Frantz Fanon: “Fanon, anti-colonial revolutionary—a program of absolute disorder.” Content curated for Flup 2025 by Handerson Joseph and Sílvia Capanema. Set design by Anderson Dias.
The opening of “Fanon, anti-colonial revolutionary…” will be celebrated on November 19, 2025, at 6:00pm at the Madureira Viaduct, Madureira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The opening will be followed by a digital intervention by four Brazilian artists, curated by Sil Bahia and Yasmin Menezes, “Códigos negros: Revolucionar imaginários de libertação a partir de Franz Fanon” [Black Codes: Revolutionizing imaginaries of liberation based on Franz Fanon.]
Description of “Fanon, anti-colonial revolutionary—a program of absolute disorder”: On the centenary of the birth of the Martinican-born, naturalized Algerian psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, author of Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth, Flup brings to Madureira an exhibition about the life, work, and legacy of the anti-colonial and anti-racist thinker and activist. Through documents, images, and texts, some of which are still unpublished in Brazil, we propose an immersion in the Fanonian universe, to think about today and tomorrow, in a connection between the peripheries of the world.
For Fanon, decolonization must be “a program of absolute disorder,” a process of rupture from which a new humanity emerges, without the hierarchies, racism, oppression, and violence of the colonial order. Based on this proposal, four artists invited by Códigos Negros use artificial intelligence as a tool to create works that envision a new possible and necessary world, to which Fanon invites us.
Description of “Códigos Negros” [Black Codes]: Four Black artists from different regions of Brazil will present original works of digital art at Flup 2025. The intervention is part of the “Códigos Negros”project, an initiative of Olabi.
In this edition, “Códigos Negros”is inspired by Frantz Fanon’s work The Wretched of the Earth to consider liberation, healing, and re-existence through technological languages. The creations of Guilherme Bretas (SP), Ilka Cyana (BA), Poliana Feulo (RJ), and Walter Mauro (BA) will be displayed on four LED screens installed on the viaduct, transforming the urban space into an open-air gallery, a symbolic and unprecedented gesture that brings Black digital art to the heart of the city.
The idea is to challenge the boundaries between the human and the digital, and to reflect on how technologies can serve the imagination of future anti-racists. “We want to show that technology is also a territory of symbolic dispute. When Black and marginalized artists create from their experiences and references, they reprogram the images that the world usually projects onto them,” says Sil Bahia, co-executive director of Olabi.
For more information, see https://www.vempraflup.com.br/programacao-19-11
Also see https://www.vempraflup.com.br/flup-2025 and https://www.vempraflup.com.br/
The 15th edition of Flup: A Festa Litéraria das Periferias [FLUP: The Literary Festival of the Peripheries] takes place from November 19 to 23, and from November 27 to 30, 2025. [Also see our previous post, Flup 2025.] Organized around the theme “Ideias para Reencantar o Mundo: Escrevivências, Sonhos e Batidões” [Ideas to Re-enchant the World:
