Category Archives: Residency Brazil March 2016

Occupying Public Space in Brazil

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Collectives and Bottom-up Initiatives. Learning from the Examples in Brazil. An article by Iva Čukić, as published in the Transnational Dialogues Journal 2016.

The aggravation of social inequalities and poverty, and the rise of unemployment and existential uncertainty in Brazil, especially among young people, has driven various groups and individuals to seek niches beyond traditional social structures in the hope of discovering new possibilities and ways of (re-)action in order to achieve their desires and needs. Continue reading Occupying Public Space in Brazil →

Voices from Brazil: Making art in troubled times

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During its last Residency, Transnational Dialogues recorded the voices of Brazilian artists and political activists. They answer about the role of the margins in the formation of artistic and political practices. This unmediated commentary originates in the current political turbulence that is affecting Brazil, as well as other countries throughout Latin America. Continue reading Voices from Brazil: Making art in troubled times →

Talk Real | Marginalia

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In the midst of the current Brazilian political crisis, we ask how the margins can acquire a new centrality in crafting future alternatives in a moment where existing economic and democratic models seem to be failing us. This latest episode of Talk Real saw the participation of Giuseppe Cocco (political scientist, Rio de Janeiro), Clara Ianni (researcher and artist, São Paulo), Isabela do Lago (artist, Belém) and Jota Mombaça (performer and researcher, Natal). Continue reading Talk Real | Marginalia →

Residência Nomádica Brasil

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Entre os anos de 2015 e 2016 o programa Residência Nomádica foi ganhando forma dentro do Transnational Dialogues, e vem sendo realizado na Europa, Brasil e China. Cada residência é caracterizada por um período de investigação acompanhada por atividades artísticas e encontros organizados em parceria com organizações locais. As residências tornaram-se, neste sentido, um “espaço /transnacional temporário de cultura” aberto para a cidade, onde o trabalho de produção e pesquisa é acompanhado por um profundo envolvimento entre a comunidade local e abordagens colaborativas e de co-produção. Continue reading Residência Nomádica Brasil →

Talk Real “Marginalia” – São Paulo, 17 March 2016

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Talk Real é uma plataforma audiovisual para a divulgação de ideias inovadoras e seus agentes, podendo ser organizações ou indivíduos, a iniciativa é da ONG European Alternatives e teve início em 2015.  Realizado pela primeira vez em São Paulo em formato inédito por ser aberto à participação do público, e debruçando-se sobre o tema Marginalia esta edição do Talk Real terá lugar no espaço do Outras Palavras no dia 17 de março a partir das 18:45 horas. O time de palestrantes é composto por: Continue reading Talk Real “Marginalia” – São Paulo, 17 March 2016 →

The Memory Project @ São Paulo, 16 March 2016

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Chinese Documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang (pictured above) launched the “Memory Project” in 2010 to collect oral histories from survivors of the Great Famine (1958-1961) in rural China. Since 2010, several young filmmakers have joined the project, including Guo Rui, author of “The Great Famine of my Grandfather”, who will be introducing this unique selection of video-material from China at São Paulo’s Cinemateca Brasileira.

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