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The video Resist the past, ignore the future and the incapacity of containing the present (2015) begins with a reflection on the installation Equilibrium I, II, III (1977) by artist Carlos Zilio. In order to construct a sort of script in accordance with the variation of cuts present in the installation. Where wooden planks are placed horizontally along the floor and placed in equilibrium from cuts made by metal saws that remains inserted into the wood. The title Resist the past, ignore the future and the incapacity of containing the present is distributed throughout the video in three sequences. Each sequence searches in different subjects forms of political engagement outside or in parallel to the main activity and the tension that is generated regarding your area of action because of this engagement. This search does not result in a didactic video but through a conceptual approaches that seek to decentralize the subject / topic as a means of generating linguistic material around the moving image. The video begins showing the assembly of the work Equilibrium I, II, III at the Museum Rio de Janeiro. The second sequence puts the viewer in two different but related situations, the first in at the end of what appears to be a lecture where the speakers answer audience questions on engagement in a march or other forms of mass protest. Soon after the viewer is placed along side a protest march in which the viewer does not see the march itself but the change in the landscape. Ending with a interview where activist Mahmoud Keshavarz and Amin reflect on a advertisement campaign for an job vacancy at a immigration detention center in Sweden, and how this ad ironically uses mobility and cultural diversity as positive gains for the future employee. In collaboration with Marhmoud Keshavarz, Amin Parsa and Carlos Zilio.

Vijai Patchineelam, born in 1983 in the city of Niterói, Brazil. Holds a Master in Research in Arts and Design at Sint Lucas University College of Art and Design, Antwerp, Belgium; an MFA at Konstfack University College of Arts Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden and a BA in Industrial Design at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Held a research position at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.