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Picó: “A Musical Portal to Africa in the Caribbean”
The full title of this article is “In Conversation with Jim C. Nedd: A Musical Portal to Africa in the Caribbean.” Here, Will Furtado (
Contemporary& América Latina, 23 November 2020) interviews Colombian artist Jim C. Nedd who worked with the Italian duo Invernomuto to examine the Afro-Caribbean musical culture called “Picó” in the documentary film
PICO: Un parlante de África en América (2020).
The identity of the lived and imagined Caribbean is composed in great part of African elements that manifest manifoldly. Several of these are present in Picó, the musical culture developed around the Colombian Caribbean sound system. In 2017, Colombian artist Jim C. Nedd co-directed a documentary film about this subject together with Invernomuto, an Italian artist duo working primarily with sound and image to explore what remains of subcultures. The final result is currently being shown at London gall