What Happens to Us – Field Notes

16/11/2016

FIELD NOTES FROM A TRIP TO BRAZIL AFTER THE COUP

Image: Carla Cruz, Paper bunting found at Galeria Maumau – Recife, 2016

When we decided to have a family break in Brazil last year we couldn’t foresee the political upheaval the country is facing today. A trip that was planned around visiting friends and learning more about community-based cultural projects has become an even more opportune moment to follow my desire to better understand the role culture plays in democratic processes. Between the 16th of October and the 13th of November I visited artists and activists operating in Recife – PE, an occupied cinema, an artist-run space, and a state led community project. The impressions these encounters have left on me is what I am making public and open to conversation at What Happen To Us.

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- AC research collective
- All My Independent Women updates on feminist / art / gender issues / work by female artists et al.
- António Contador Collaborating with António for the second time on the ‘street money’ project
- Associação dos Amigos da Praça do Anj@ facebook da Associação – pede amizade / become a friend!
- Associação dos Amigos da Praça do Anj@ a AAPA exige saber o que aconteceu à sua lápide comemorativa.
- Caldeira 213 Espaço dedicado à Associação Caldeira 213 (1999-2002), onde se pode ler o manifesto, ver documentação dos projectos e ler os artigos que lhe foram dedicados
- ESCOLA do ALTO da FONTINHA em solidariedade com o espaço colectivo autogestionado do Alto da Fontinha
- Guimarães 2012 collaboration for REAKT: Olhares e Processos, Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012, with the collective ‘Rastilho’
- Hospitalfield – AIR Interdisciplinary Residency March 2016
- MissOPO My collaboration with Miss’OPO, designing a floor for their space in Porto, is ready. Check out their website
- Miúda Books Miúda is an online bookshop based in the UK dedicated to children’s books written in Portuguese.
- Oficina Arara colaboração com a Oficina Arara para uma exposição sobre as “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” – Espaço Campanhã – Porto
- porto Público in London thinking about public sphere and participatory practices
- Reakt Olhares e Processos look out for RASTILHO
- The Mill Cultural Engagement Researcher at The Mill, supported by Goldsmiths University of London and AHRC, 2016.
- THIS Studio at Tottenham Hale International Studios
- Walthamstow Cooperative for Performing Arts An Independent performing arts space in Walthamstow? Join us for the first meeting. 17 June 7pm, Chequers, London E17 7BX

Carla Cruz

What Happens to Us – Field Notes

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