'Bottom Wide' Media Practices with Marinho De Pina

Marinho de Pina is involved in the Mediateca Onshore at Malafo, Guinea-Bissau, a versatile place where media archiving, cultural initiatives, ecological activism and community projects are coming together. Marinho will walk us through various alternative positions and methodologies that they have developed throughout his work both as an artist, a community organiser and a multimedia activist. Especially the notion of ‘bottom wide’ - as opposed to the hierarchically inspired ‘top-down’ or ‘bottom-up’ will be explored in this workshop, trying to create a circular space in which relations of authority and power are questioned and unlearned.


Marinho de Pina is a filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist, performer, poet, musician and writer. He is currently a research assistant at the Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory in Lisbon doing his PhD on “Sacred Spaces in Bissau”. Since 2017, he has been working on Mediateca Abotcha in Guinea-Bissau with Filipa Cesár, Sana na N’Hada and Suleimane Biai, a programme for the cultural creation of dreams and utopias with the local community there.

The Mediateca Onshore is an arts and culture platform in a socially and ecologically sensitive area in Guinea-Bissau. As a venue, it hosts archives, workshops, seminars, production and community gatherings. As a network, it acts as a hub for transferring local, South-South and mundializing knowledge through performing arts, archival practices, moving image and digital media. It articulates practices in the fields of art, agroecology, traditional knowledge and media as contribution to social, economical and environmental justice.

This event takes place in the framework of FIREPLACE CINEMA, a research project of Gawan Fagard on cinema, community and reconfigurations of the economy of empathy through film.