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This month we want to highlight our meaningful partnership with SOUTH SOUTH<\/a> on its second edition of VEZA. SOUTH SOUTH is an online community, an anthology, an archive and a resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors, institutions and non-profits invested in the Global South.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VEZA 02<\/a> features a digital showcase of seminal video art from the Global South which coincided with the April 2022 edition of SP\u2013Arte<\/a> in Brazil. An exclusively designed installation powered by Niio was set up at the fair, presenting selected video art works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicol\u00e1s Paris, Desv\u00edo (<\/em>2017). Installation view SP-Arte.

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SOUTH SOUTH Veza takes its name from the isiZulu word which means \u201cto show, produce, or reveal\u201d and presents its audience with a new way to experience and engage with new media artworks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

VEZA 02 also boasted a robust curated art programme titled Bending the Axis<\/em>. This year’s programme was curated by Meyken Barreto, Uche James Iroha, and the curatorial duo Carlos Quijon, Jr. & Kathleen Ditzig and was made possible with the generosity of Mr. Jorge M. Perez and the inaugural SOUTH SOUTH x El Espacio 23 Curatorial Residency. It included works by emerging and established artists and a Talks Programme engaging cultural practitioners from across the globe which took place from 31 March – 10 April 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Veza 02 focuses on digital and video art, and the remarkable possibilities of new media, as well as its core activity of facilitating new connections within the cultural ecosystems across the Global South and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galleries from 25 cities spread across five continents came together to present a selling exhibition of important video artworks at SP\u2013Arte (S\u0101o Paulo) and simultaneously online. This marked SOUTH SOUTH \u2019s transition into a hybrid model through collaboration with regional fairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niio supported and powered both the physical exhibition and the online presentation through our state of the art technology platform which enables new media to be preserved, certified and seamlessly acquired through Niio and the Blockchain, with an accompanying NFT.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coco Fusco, The Empty Plaza\/ La Plaza Vacia<\/em>, (2012). Installation view SP-Arte.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SOUTH SOUTH offers a repository and a space for new, shared value systems centered on community, collaboration and exchange. It is a central portal to experience the programs and artist profiles of galleries within and dedicated to the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SOUTH SOUTH platform was conceived by Liza Essers, owner of Goodman Gallery as a response to the global pandemic and as an extension to an ongoing curatorial initiative established by Goodman Gallery in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niio facilitates and enables the acquisition of new media and video art works and ownership through our highly advanced platform offering storage and preservation of digital works, securing NFT & blockchain technology for provenance and attribution, and providing the best in class display technology for showcasing screen based works, in-turn enabling art spaces and arts practitioners to shape their own narratives within the cluttered and developing conversations about the relationship between art, new technology and web3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the help of Niio, SOUTH SOUTH also launched the VEZA NEW MEDIA FUND which allows museums focused on the Global South and diaspora to acquire new media works from galleries taking part in VEZA for their collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s beneficiary was El Museo del Barrio<\/a>, New York\u2019s leading Latino cultural institution. Niio together with SOUTH SOUTH has launched a $40,000 fund through which El Museo Del Barrio has acquired two new digital artworks: one that addresses the erosion of civil liberties by the high-profile Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco \u2014 The Empty Plaza\/ La Plaza Vacia<\/em>, 2012, represented by Alexander Gray Associates. Centrally located public squares are a key component of social and political life throughout Latin America, Caribbean cities, and the rest of the world. In The Empty Plaza\/ La Plaza Vacia,<\/em> artist Coco Fusco, inspired by the Arab Spring protests of 2011 explores discussions among Cubans about the reason that plazas were left vacant. In this work the Plaza de la Revoluci\u00f3n in Havana becomes the protagonist in the artist\u2019s mediation on public space, memory and revolutionary promise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n