Carla Cruz is an artist, researcher and educator (EAAD – UMINHO) living in Porto. She has a PhD in art practice by Goldsmiths, University of London, with the support of FCT. In 2016, she was awarded an Associate Research Fellowship by the AHRC Cultural Engagement fund, focusing on the London community centre, The Mill. Between 2011 and 2021, she developed the Finding Money project with Antonio Contador, and, since 2007, has mobilized the Associação de Amigos da Praça do Anjo with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa. Carla was a co-founder of the feminist artistic intervention collective ZOiNA (1999-2004), and of Associação Caldeira 213 (1999-2002); between 2005 and 2013 she coordinated the feminist exhibition project All My Independent Wo / men. She promotes the study group Feminist Readings (FBAUP-i2ADS); and since 2020 has been developing a speculative artistic project about non-human temporalities with Claudia Lopes.
