Jimmy Grima
/PUBLIC REALM/Jimmy is an artist-curator and his trans-disciplinary practice is concerned with the politics of memory and archiving. Deeply interested in the disappearance of local and undocumented knowledge, Grima has a great affinity for the relationship between humans and nature. Originally from Malta, he is now based between Malta and Amsterdam. He finds it striking how in The Netherlands nature has been controlled and adapted to the human scale. Through remembrances, myths and scientific data, Grima tries to find histories, stories and details that reconnect humans to their environment.
PRESENTING
NASSABA: SONG OF A BIRD
This work is a portrait of a disappearing practice – a way of being in nature in which parent and child forge a generational bond. With a camera in hand, Grima joined his father to the fields on the Maltese rocky coasts. Until recently his father went here to catch migratory birds. In a one-hour performance, Jimmy incorporates video material to present the emotional world of the Maltese bird catchers and their bird-learned songs.