morani

morani. Born in Nilópolis, BXD, RJ, 1997. Participates in the International Residency Program at Capacete (2019/2020). Graduated in Art History at the School of Fine Arts – UFRJ. Worked as art educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niterói and School of Visual Arts Parque Lage. Researcher at the African Philosophy Group Geru Maa / UFRJ. Participated in group exhibitions at the Paço Imperial, EAV – Parque Lage, Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro, Atelier Organi.co, among others.

 

 


Daniel Sepúlveda

Lenguajes de la Indigestión: Dos espíritus, linografía sobre papel estampado a cuerpo, 21 x 29,5 cm., Duen Sacchi, 2019.


Daniel is a researcher and educator whose toolbox arises from the anthropology, discipline that s/he studied in Centro Universitario del Norte de la Universidad de Guadalajara.S/he currently directs the independent circle of permanent studies Menos Foucault y más Shakira, in Mexico City and imparts the seminar Pedagogías Caníbales. Her/is educational commitment is located from the decolonization of knowledge, cultural products and anti-racism.As independent investigator, her/is work includes the coordination of two laboratories: Presente Inminente; Urban Architecture and Antropholy, with Mariana Medrano and La [tecno]Guerra en Curso. S/he collaborates in independent spaces as Cuerpos Parlantes (Guadalajara, México) and Casa Gomorra (Ciudad de México), in addition to be part of the team of Anormal Festival, festival of post-pornography, feminisms, bodies and dissident sexualities.

Research
Hospice of Utopian Residences is a space whose itinerant capacity allows its unfolding 
collaboratively depending on the conditions of the physical space that hosts the project. 
On this occasion he supports the Bi-national Indigestion Languages ​​research and action project: 
Contrapedagogies and Visual Resistance Laboratory whose main research space is the hegemonic 
imaginary generated by political, aesthetic, visual and ethical hegemonies.

Eglė & Dorota



Dorota Gawęda (nascida em 1986, Lublin, PL) e Eglė Kulbokaitė (nascida em 1987, Kaunas, LT) 
são uma dupla de artistas fundada em 2013, com sede em Basileia (Suíça). Ambas são graduadas no 
Royal College of Art, Londres (2012). Elas trabalham em uma variedade de mídias, incluindo 
instalação, vídeo, escultura e performance. Elas são as fundadores do YOUNG GIRL 
READING GROUP - YGRG (2013-), um projeto que busca uma maneira horizontal de abordar textos e 
compartilhar conhecimentos, proporcionando um espaço discursivo íntimo na experiência da leitura 
coletiva. A dupla também é a fundadora do avatar pós-corpo de Agatha Valkyrie Ice (2014-2017), 
cujo nome co-curou o espaço do projeto OSLO1O em Basel (2015-2017). Gawęda e Kulbokaitė exibiram 
seus trabalhos internacionalmente, incluindo: FUTURA, Praga (solo); Projetos Schimmel, Dresden (solo); 
Antecipações de Lafayette, Paris; HKW, Berlim; Spazio Maiocchi, Milão; Galeria Lucas Hirsch, 
Düsseldorf (solo); Les Urbaines, Lausanne; ANTI - 6ª Bienal de Atenas; Suíça; Arte em geral, 
Nova York; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlim; Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Cell Project Space, Londres (solo); 
MMOMA, Moscou; Palácio de Tóquio, Paris; Galeria Amanda Wilkinson, Londres (solo); 13ª Trienal do 
Báltico, Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Vilnius; Kunsthalle Basel; ACI, Londres; SMK - Museu Nacional 
da Dinamarca, Copenhague; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (solo); MOMA, 
Varsóvia; SALTS, Basileia; Bienal de Berlim 9; Kunsthalle Zürich; entre outros. As próximas 
exposições individuais da dupla incluem: Coleção Julia Stoschek, Düsseldorf, On Curating, Zurique 
e FriArt / Kunsthalle Fribourg, Trafo Gallery, Budapeste.


Pesquisa

Atualmente, Gawęda Kulbokaitė está focada em seu projeto serial em andamento YOUNG GIRL 
READING GROUP, que busca o ato de ler como uma experiência íntima, mantendo a potencialidade 
de se tornar uma performance pública por meio da “difusão” de palavras que, de outra maneira, 
seriam sub-asfixiadas. Este projeto acumulativo investiga a incorporação da linguagem, postulando 
a interdependência do texto, do corpo de leitura, do ambiente e da tecnologia, onde os leitores 
e seus arredores são representados como o local de um conjunto ativo e contínuo de relações. 
Pensar através de uma instabilidade de limites, incompletude formal, porosidade e a idéia de 
fragmentariedade, em vez de holismo, é importante para a abordagem da dupla na leitura e em sua 
prática material. Gawęda e Kulbokaitė pretendem continuar suas pesquisas sobre a performance, uma 
mídia que se presta a criar ambientes especulativos.

Yasmine Ostendorf








Researcher/curator Yasmine Ostendorf  has been undertaking research across Asia and Europe on artists proposing alternative ways of living and working – ways that ultimately shape more sustainable, interconnected and resilient societies and peripheries. She has extensively worked on international cultural mobility programmes and on the topic of art and ecology, having worked for expert organisations such as Julie’s Bicycle (UK), Bamboo Curtain Studio (TW), Cape Farewell (UK) and Trans Artists (NL). She runs the Green Art Lab Alliance, a network of 35 cultural organisations in Europe and Asia that explores, questions, and addresses our social and environmental responsibility, and is the author of the series of guides “Creative Responses to Sustainability,” published by the Asia-Europe Foundation (SG) and the Ecologic Institute (DE). She is an associate curator for Valley of the Possible (CL), for the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (UK), and for C-Platform (CN). Since 2017 she is the Head of the Lab for Nature Research at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL) and the initiator of the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018); a research placement for an artist/chef, understanding food in the light of current ecological, social and political developments. She has been organising Food Art Film Festivals collecting, showcasing and celebrating inspiring food/art practices from across the globe and has been organising regular Reading Groups to bring together theory and practice. She tries to write a monthly blog for www.artistsandclimatechange.com.

 

Research

My initial plan was to spend my time expanding on partnerships for the Green Art Lab Alliance in Latin-America; connecting dots, redistributing resources and organising exchanges and so on. Soon it turned out that above all, Capacete is a personal opportunity to enjoy a second education; a chance to carefully dissect and review Eurocentric perspectives and expand on my theoretical and cultural framework in active anti-colonial and anti-racist ways. More than anything my ‘project’ here is to listen, absorb and internalise. And more than it being about a subject it’s become to be about recognising underlying systems and structures and curating alternative methodologies  accordingly.




**Yasmine Ostendorf's residence is possible with the support of Mondriaan Fonds
(https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/)

Tatyana Zambrano




Tatyana Zambrano, 1982, Medellin-Colombia. Publicist and visual artist. 
Master in Movement digital art and information technologies from UNAM Mexico. 
She currently lives in Rio de Janeiro-Brazil doing the one-year program in Capacete. 
She was part of the SOMA 2016 educational program CDMX. She works on projects that deal 
with the transition of ideologies and the institutionalization of rebellion. Her work has 
been recognized in Les Rencontres Internationales New Cinema and Contemporary art in Berlin, 
Official Selection of Latin American video art by the Getty Research Institute and the 
National Artists Salon of Colombia.


Research

My search is about Black tourism (tourism of mourning or thanatos-tourism), is a form of tourism in which the main attraction are the places where deaths, tragedies or catastrophes have occurred; it is also called morbid tourism. There is a tourist market niche in which people seek to experience these strong emotions first-hand. An example of this type of tour, which are almost reality shows, is in Hidalgo Mexico where people pay to have the experience of being “mojado” in an artificial scenario on the dessert, these people experience the passage from Mexico to the United States, going hungry and psychological abuse.

The project aims to exceed this imaginary of Latin America through the creation of an amusement workshops in order to show a cynical and ironic, but paradigmatic situation where black tourism immorally represents what morality wants to communicate.

Finally, I am moved to be part of the program because I feel arts as a affair state, where we are accomplice in this thing called contemporary arts, shared guilt, sometimes hard, sometimes fun, but is the capacity of exploring into yourself, taking risks, affections, and probably the challenge of deal with more human beings doing the best thing #arts.

 

Tiago de Abreu Pinto

In Rio, I'll be chatting with artists. Listening, mainly. Henceforth, said artists, will be the basis 
of fictional texts (perhaps, not so much, because everything they say is incorporated into the text 
and therefore not fictional and more real). The aforementioned artists should not be excluded from the 
dialogue after the text has been completed since I believe that contact with the artist must be 
continuous and permanent. In other words, I will connect the artist's message (or, better said, voice) 
to the public through texts that incorporate features of his idiosyncrasy. In the sweet slopes of this 
communication, the allusion to Mikhail Bakhtin's dialectical and dialogical forms will become clear to 
explore new forms of critical mediation. Furthermore, this process will transform the different voices 
of the artists into a fictional mass that sheds light on various themes such as: (a) interpretation 
and neutrality, (b) the limits between fiction and reality and (c) different ways in which contemporary 
artists incorporate your ideas.
 
Tiago de Abreu Pinto is an independent writer and curator, Ph.D in Art History from the Complutense 
University of Madrid. He won the Art Curatorship Scholarship awarded by the Gwangju Art Biennial, 
South Korea in 2012, and the Art Se Busca Comisario Art Curator Award from the Community of Madrid, 
Spanish Government in 2014.
 

Margarita del Carmen + Kristian Byskov

Margarita del Carmen and Kristian Byskov are working together on a practical research since
2013. This research takes its point of departure in a search for methods and practices of how
groups of people together can creatively work with the spaces they inhabit. Within this search,
Kristian and Margarita have looked and tried methods of collaborative design; ecological
practices; urban planning; artistic pedagogical tools; as well as exercises and approaches from
the Theater of the Oppressed.
During their period in Capacete, they will research further on theatrical approaches to space,
groups and conflicts within the framework of Félix Guattari’s notion of ‘micro-fascism’ as well as
Augusto Boal’s exercises on ‘the cop in the head’. Margarita and Kristian would like to
participate in conversations and activities around questions like:
If space is always political, loaded with structures of power and domination, how can we as
artists structure our spatial practice and refine our methods to artistically create spaces for
emancipatory practices? How can these artistic actions counter the micro-fascisms from being
expressed through us in our daily, social relations? Does the history of fascist domination repeat
itself in spaces and how can this be changed?

 
Link: practicalfolly.net/pedagogy

 

 

 


Katherine MacBride

Katherine MacBride is an artist. At one point she was also an art therapist. She works with performance, installation, writing, video, sound, and event making, with and without institutions. Collaboration and supportive practices are important to her: she prints small-edition feminist publications; edits other people’s writing for income and pleasure and sometimes both; works in a drop-in art studio for homeless people; plays synth and quiet vocals in a non-binary music sprawl; and is learning to play and make space with Tender Center, a collectively-run venue for queer events in Rotterdam.
Much of her practice focuses on relational entanglements, listening across and being attentive to difference, and working creatively towards an ethics of inseparability and interdependency.
At Capacete, she’s learning Portuguese so she can talk slowly to people about how they do what they do, sewing small things, listening, walking, cooking, writing, reading, talking. She’d be interested to do any of these things with you and maybe having a chat about what kinds of listening, attention-giving, hosting, and space-making you use in your artistic, collective, political, caring, personal, or any other day-to-day practices.
*** this residency is a partnership with Mondriaan Fonds (https://www.mondriaanfonds.nl/)

Prerna Bishnoi

 

 
Prerna Bishnoi is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice is at the co-influence of filmmaking, performativity, study and spatial production. She is concerned with the conditions of work and play and works with strategies of creating, organising and mobilising communities in struggles of commoning through films, texts, storytelling, games and sound pieces. Operating from a position of critical intimacy, she works towards actively re-imagining existing systemic relations. She currently lives in Trondheim but roots her practice in both India and Norway.
During the residency I will be working on my project ‘Surface Tension’ that is primarily located around the spectacularly foamy Bellandur lake in Bangalore. I hope to draw lines between the commons experiences of toxicity (from Bangalore to Brazil), paying special attention to symptoms of toxicity (aural and visual), acts of resistance, toxic time (from spectacular toxic events, their aftermath to the slow impact of toxicity on bodies and spaces). I will also work on creating a plant portrait of the invasive species Water Hyacinth, native to Brazil. In India (called ‘Bengal’s Terror’ among other names), the plant is a remnant of an encounter with Western imperialism and is now a symptom of dissolved pollutants in the water while making water transportation and hydro-power difficult. In its native waters, I am interested in its manifestation in art, folklore, oral histories, literature and poetry. Water Hyacinths fascinate me because it is historically an exotic plant, gifted far and wide for its beauty but who finds it beautiful today when it insists on resisting and transforming economic uses of water bodies?

 

Links:
http://prernabishnoi.weebly.com/
https://vimeo.com/user7688021

 

 

*** this residence is a collaboration between Capecete and OCA (https://www.oca.no/)

 


Ina Hagen

During her time at Capacete, artist and writer Ina Hagen (NO) sets out to learn about the residency’s long history and how it has maintained connected to its local and extended community over the years. Central to her inquiries is intimacy; how it is enacted across relations that have been forged in times of difficulty, how intimacy gives and takes, and how it eventually weaves or unravels a feeling of solidarity with others. With Capacete as a frame of reference, she is curious to discuss how such solidarity is maintained, and whether intimacy still remains a meaningful force in the current face of increasingly polarised public life.

Ina Hagen (b.1989, Norway) is an artist and writer based in Oslo. Her work explores layers of mediation between audiences, artwork and artists, in order to create instances of collective, critical reflection. She explores this through performative situations and platforms for social thinking. Hagen has been running one such platform; Louise Dany, together with artist Daisuke Kosugi, from their home and adjacent store-front since 2016. She writes regularly for the Scandinavian online art journal kunstkritikk.no, and is the deputy chair of the young artist’s membership organization and contemporary art institution, UKS (Young Artist’s Society). Hagen has exhibited at: INCA, Seattle (Solo); Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Podium, Oslo, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include the tenth Momentum biennale in Moss (The Emotional Exhibition, 2019) and INDEX – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm.

 

 

www.inahagen.is

www.louisedany.no

 

 

 


Tenzing Barshee

**Photo by Hanna Putz 
Tenzing Barshee (born 1983) is an independant writer and a curator at Sundogs in Paris. In Rio de Janeiro, he reflects on how the idea of „touching and being touched“ can assist and complicate the displacement of one‘s own body. Following different cues, he approaches people and places with a determined willingness to engage, paired with the melancholy inherent to the memory of a childlike curiosity.
As part of the “COINCIDENCIA” program in South America of the Swiss Pro Helvetia Foundation

Sol Archer

 

Sol trabalha em um espaço de encontro entre documentário e especulação, trabalhando principalmente com a imagem em movimento para desenvolver espaços de conversação e co-criação com grupos e comunidades. Prestando atenção a um site como uma zona múltipla de narrativas que se cruzam, atravessando escalas locais e globais para tentar mapear as ações e abstrações de poder através de efeitos em escalas corporais e vivas.



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Fotini Gouseti

Experiencing connecting issues“- CAPACETE Athens 2017

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Fotini Gouseti is a conceptual artist and PhD researcher in anthropology. She studied art at Athens School of Fine Arts (BA), Dutch Art Institute (MA) and she is currently a PhD candidate at the Dept. of History, Archaeology & Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. Accordingly, her practice is research-based, socially-engaged and quite often called political. Her learningprocess derives out of her connection with others, while she focuses on the role of art in negotiating issues of memory.

She is the initiator of the art project Renkonto. For the past few years she has been engaged in the research projects The Present as a Result of the Past and The Least Wanted Travel the Most. The artistic outcomes of her projects are presented in various contexts worldwide.


Pêdra Costa

 

 

Pêdra Costa is a Brazilian Performance Artist and a Visual Anthropologist. S/he is currently doing a Diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and working with queer immigrant artists internationally. Hers work is informed by the aesthetics of post-porn and an investigation about anti-colonial concepts.
About the residency: The focus of my research is the Invisible Knowledge, which I have developed experimentally, based on anti-colonial strategies, self-care pedagogies and non-cartesian epistemologies. I present my performance “de_colon_isation”, which is part of my research at the University of Fine Arts Vienna. I release the book in Brazil “Anti*Colonial Fantasies – Decolonial Strategies” and I work on my project “Anti-analysis”, where I schedule an appointment with 6 artists (individually or in groups) per day, in a free session of 50 minutes each, focusing on art, critical theory and pedagogy.

 

 


Valentina Desideri

foto: Daniela Pinheiro

 

 

Valentina Desideri is an Amsterdam-based artist. She trained in contemporary dance at the Laban Centre in London (2003–2006) and later on did her MA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (2011–13). She does Fake Therapy and Political Therapy, she co-organises Performing Arts Forum in France, she engages in Poethical Readings with Prof. Denise Ferreira da Silva, she speculates with many, she reads and writes.

She is available to share the practices and tools I use and research (Political Therapy as well as various reading and healing practices) with whomever is interested in experiencing and further exploring them with her. She is particularly interested in approaching study as a practice of healing, but how that can be done and what kind of collective experiments of study we could set up during the residency is totally up to encounters, circumstances and urgent necessities that emerge.
To contact her e-mail: valedesideri@gmail.com

 

 

 


Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza

Independent curator and researcher based in Athens, Greece.

Between 2012- 2015 she held curatorial positions in public art institutions in London including at 
the Serpentine Galleries, The Architecture Foundation and the Contemporary Art Society. In 2016-2017 
Tsipni-Kolaza worked as a Curatorial Assistant for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel. Her recent 
projects include: Orange Trees that Talk, a mediated performance by Cooking Sections at the Botkyrka 
Konsthall in Stockholm and “Sonic Revolutions Vibrations from the Levant” presented at Haus der 
Kulturen der Welt Berlin, 2016. Having received the Forecast Platform award Tsipni-Kolaza developed 
Sonic Revolutions as a two day exhibition in the form of an album, exploring issues of spatial justice,
collective memory and history through the detour of popular culture.

For her four months residency with Capacete in Rio, she will be continuing her research in underground
 and popular culture and its various forms of artistic expressions with a focus on music, sound, 
performance and film. She aims to look at the history of art collectives, artist-run spaces,curatorial 
initiatives and institutional frameworks to investigate the formats they employ in order to survive 
the rapid changes they occur in the city’s economic and political landscape

Bruna Kury

 

 

Bruna Kury is a Brazilian anarcotransfeminist, performer, researcher of kuir sudaka in daily life and has performed with the Coletiva Vômito, Coletivo Coiote, La Plataformance, MEXA and Coletivo T. Pirateia and does post porn and pornoterror. She develops direct performances / actions against the prevailing compulsory heteronormative patriarchal cis-theme and structural oppressions (class WAR), especially in crisis places. He has recently participated in the All Genders show with PornôPirata, the cultural turn in SP with the T Collective and the 10mg Terminal with the MEXA Collective.

She intends in the residence to research and to experience and to change on the created concept “pornorecycling” and the purge of the patriarchy in the “vomit workshop”.

 

 https://fronterasyestadosdesitio.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/brunx-kury/

foto por Rafael Marques


RODRIGO ANDREOLLI

Name: RODRIGO ANDREOLLI

Nacionality: Brasil

Born: 1984

RODRIGO ANDREOLLI transits through the performing arts, especially interested in researching the body as an element for sensitive activation of the visible and invisible layers of the public matter. He acts elaborating production structures in multidisciplinary art projects.

RODRIGO ANDREOLLI (São Paulo/Brazil) is a São Paulo based dancer, actor and producer. He works with Brazilian Theater Company TEAT(R)O OFICINA, directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa, since 2006. Rodrigo has collaborated with Brazilian choreographer Cristian Duarte on the piece THE HOT ONE HUNDRED CHOREOGRAPHERS in 2011 and  has taken part in experiments on the research frame APT? – A PIECE…TOGETHER? led by Cristian Duarte and Paz Rojo, in 2010 and 2011,  in festivals in São Paulo and Madrid. Rodrigo has created the solo piece CUTOUT (2012 – RESIDÊNCIA FUNARTE OUTRAS DANÇAS); the duet A/R, in collaboration with Brazilian artist Raissa Ralola (2013/2014 – Prêmio Funarte Klauss Vianna); the performance ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING [A POINT OF VIEW] (2013 – Centro Cultural São Paulo; the publication ÍNCIDE PARA ESCUTA, with Clarissa Sacchelli (2014- Centro Cultural São Paulo), TRAGÉDIA: UMA TRAGÉDIA, directed by Carolina Mendonça, as assistant director and actor (2014- SESC/SP); He was a resident artist and producer of the Residency Project LOTE#1, LOTE#2 and LOTE#3, coordinate by Cristian Duarte in São Paulo.

He was in the dance pirece TIRA MEU FÔLEGO (Take my breath away), by Elisa Ohtake (2014); BATUCADA, by Marcelo Evelin/Demolition INC (2014) and athe theater piece THE LADY OF THE SEA, by Bob Wilson (2014).

He also developed the research project TERREYRO COREOGRÁFICO, with Daniel Kairoz, framing actions on public spaces to study the crossings of choreography, architecture and digital programming.

He studied at SNDO – SCHOOL OF NEW DANCE DEVELOPMENT- Intensive Course (Amsterdam, 2009) and he was selected for DANCEWEB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM 2015 – IMPULSTANZ VIENNA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL.

RODRIGO ANDREOLLI

RODRIGO ANDREOLLI (São Paulo/Brasil), ator, dançarino e produtor. Desde 2006, integra projetos do TEAT(R)O OFICINA UZYNA UZONA, sob direção de José Celso Martinéz Corrêa. Foi parte do elenco para montagem do espetáculo PARAÍSO SEM CONSOLAÇÃO, sob direção de Constanza Macras (2008). Participou dos experimentos realizados pelo campo de trabalho APT? – A PIECE…TOGETHER?  coordenado por Cristian Duarte e Paz Rojo nos anos de 2010 e 2011, em São Paulo, Madrid e Viena. Foi colaborador de Cristian Duarte para a criação HOT 100 – THE HOT ONE HUNDRED CHOREOGRAPHERS. Em 2012 foi artista residente do Projeto OUTRAS DANÇAS FUNARTE – Porto Alegre- RS, onde iniciou a pesquisa de trabalho solo CUTOUT. No mesmo contexto iniciou uma parceria com Raissa Ralola (MG) para a criação de A/R, contemplado pelo Prêmio Klauss Vianna 2013. Criou para Centro Cultural SP, o trabalho TENTATIVA DE ESGOTAMENTO [DE UM PONTO DE VISTA] (2013) e a publicação ÍNDICE DE ESCUTA (2014) em colaboração com Clarissa Sacchelli. Foi artista-residente e produtor do projeto LOTE#1, LOTE#2 e LOTE#3 (2011-2014). Foi assistente de direção e ator da montagem TRAGÉDIA: UMA TRAGÉDIA, de Will Eno, direção de Carolina Mendonça.  Integrou elenco de TIRA MEU FÔLEGO, de Elisa Ohtake (2014), participou de BATUCADA, de Marcelo Evelin/Demolition INC (2014) e A DAMA DO MAR, de Bob Wilson (2014).

Em 2014/15, integrou o projeto TERREYRO COREOGRÁFICO, proposto por Daniel Kairoz, subsidiado pelo programa de Fomento à Dança para a Cidade de São Paulo.

Cursou o Intesive Course SNDO – SCHOOL OF NEW DANCE DEVELOPMENT (Amsterdam, 2009) e foi artista selecionado para o programa DANCEWEB 2015 no IMPULSTANZ VIENNA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL.


Gil & Moti

 Gil & Moti

 

Os projetos de Gil & Moti constantemente exploram identidade, a noção de individualidade e as normas e formas relacionadas a esses temas. Em intervenções sociais de pequena escala eles trabalham questões politico-sociais tais como discriminação, exclusão social e racismo. Como artistas, casal gay, imigrantes que vivem e trabalham em Roterdã (Países Baixos) e judeus (ex)israelenses, eles tem uma experiência direta como os temas que trabalham dentro de suas próprias vidas.

 

 

 

 

© studio Hans Wilschut

 

 


Arquivos de Resistência

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Wed 16 Nov, 19h to 22h

Thu 17 Nov, 17h to 21h

Fri 18 Nov, 17h to 21h

Arquivos de Resistência

November 16 to 18

Arquivos de Resistência consists of a three-day program bringing together artists, activists, and other members of the public to discuss strategies for narrating social movements and raising political consciousness. The program will be joined by three invited artists, each of whom work with photographic and material archives to mine particular histories of anti-colonial and anti-normative resistance, and in turn devise tools for current struggles. The main focus of the program is to open dialogue on wide-ranging narratives of struggle across communities, and establish points of connection and alliance.

November 16: Wednesday 7-9pm

Film Screening + Discussion

A film screening of Joyce Wieland, Cecilia Estalles (Argentina), Jaime Araya (Chile), Manuel Carrión (Chile) and Marton Robinson (Costa Rica) to be followed by a discussion with Laure Howes (CFMDC) and invited artists.

Executive Director of Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC), Lauren Howes, will present a selection of Wieland’s 16mm films made using archival material from the 1930s to the 1970s.  Joyce Wieland described herself as a “cultural activist” and was acclaimed for her works that addressed the Canadian national identity with a feminist perspective in the midst of a male-dominated artistic milieu.

November 17: Thursday 5 – 9 pm  

Presentation of work by Araya-Carrión, a collective composed of Jaime Araya and Manual Carrión.  The artists will propose a group dynamic activity which will take place close to Capacete.

November 18: Friday 5 – 9pm

Presentation of work by Marton Robinson, who will propose a group dynamic activity based on a discussion with the participants.

BIOS

CFMDC has been a distribution leader in getting independent artist films on screens everywhere since 1967. They are a full-service, non-exclusive distributor with over 3850 titles in our catalogue including some of Canada’s most original and well-respected works of art on film. They distribute all genres of independent film by more than 1000 members. CFMDC is a critical resource for curators, programmers, educational institutions, festivals, museums and broadcasters worldwide.

Cecilia Estalles is an artist and photographer whose work predominantly focuses on collective and activist practices, specifically in the documentation of queer and feminist movements.  She created the Archivo de Memoria de Mujeres Trans, for which she collects and digitizes photographs of trans women in Buenos Aires from the 1970s to 2000s, many of whom were killed by police. Despite the passage of a gender identity law in Argentina in 2012, trans women continue to face various forms of discrimination.

Collective Araya-Orión consists of Chilean artists Jaime Araya Miranda and Manuel Carrión Lira.  In the context of this workshop, they will present their project in Neptume, a community in southern Chile where they have collected photographic and material archives while collaborating with the community.  Their archive includes samples from an 80-year old mountain of woodchips from a sawmill in this town, as material witness to the transformation of this community through colonization.

Martón Robinson is a second-generation descendent of Jamaican immigrants to Costa Rica. He grew up in San José, where the history of struggle is evident today in Afro-Latino heritage and identity.  Robinson’s work addresses the problematic nature of Afro-diasporic representations in popular culture through video, installation and printmaking.  His research on the Afro-Latino identity narrates the struggles of the Afro-diasporic populations in Costa Rica.


Respira Conspira

Respira Conspira - cartaz A3

 

RESPIRA  CONSPIRA

␣␣␣␣␣␣ tudo  que ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ -­  Paulo  Leminski            Conspire:   From   Latin   Conspirare;;   to   act   in   harmony,   conspire,   equivalent   to   con   +   spirare;;   to   breathe:   breathing   together.

          Conspiring  often  has  a  negative  connotation;;  a  strategic  game  in  the  shadows,  an  alliance  to  plot  against  another   power  or  person.  But  it  can  also  be  interpreted  as  coming  close  together  to  sharpen  the  senses,  to  be  more  attentive   to  the  other’s  signals  and  thoughts;;  lowered  voices  breathing  the  same  air.            RESPIRA  CONSPIRA  is  an  ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣  initiated  by  Camilla  Rocha  Campos  and  Thora  Dolven  Balke,  both  2016   residents   of   Capacete,   concerning   the   practice   of   thinking   together   –   with   the   aim   to   create   moments   of   action,   ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ movements  to  change  a  given  situation.

This  open  research  will  manifest  during  7  days  between  the  7th  and  14th   of  November  2016  at  CAPACETE.            All  the  events  are  free  and  will  be  live  whisper  translated  between  English  and  Portuguese.

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Mon  &  Tue  7/11  &  8/11  from  5  to  8  pm Workshop  with  artist  Humberto  Velez  (PA/UK) Participativo  –  A  workshop  about  public  and  participatory  art  projects  developed  for  Respira  Conspira  presented  at   Capacete.  Examining  the  possibilities  of  collaboration  and  collectives,  why  and  how  do  artists  work  with  groups  or   communities;;   as   intuitive   formations   out   of   necessity   or   common   interest,   or   as   projects   commissioned   by   outside   ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ creating  something  together.

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Wed  9/11  from  7:30  to  10:30  pm Group  talk  with  Capacete  residents  2016 Starting  from  the  conspiration  that  is  the  residency  Capacete,  this  conversation  with  the  2016  residents  will  consider   questions,  movements,  other  conspirations  and  experiences  that  have  manifest  throughout  the  8  months  we  have   spent  together  so  far,  inside  and  outside  Capacete  itself.

Niqui  Tapume Artist   Marssares   (BR)   is   building   a   new   structure   within   Capacete,   changing   the   usual   movements,   encouraging   new  places  to  meet,  talk,  listen  and  observe  from.  This  new  set-­up  will  stay  throughout  Respira  Conspira.     

Cooking  Respira  Conspira   Self-­revolutionary  and  resident  chef  of  Capacete  Kadija  de  Paula  (BR)  will  bring  nourishment  to  the  Respira   Conspira  participants,  together  with  other  invited  chefs,  for  the  duration  of  the  events.

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Thur  10/11  from  3  to  5  pm Conversation  with  Ella  (BR)  and  surprise  guest  (?) Ella  is  a  collective  of  women  artist-­researchers.  Ella  is  an  experience  in  creating  a  medium  for  activating  thoughts   and  actions  in  artworks.  The  group  was  formed  from  an  encounter  between  women  artists,  students  and  researchers   from  Escola  de  Belas  Artes  da  UFRJ  with  the  desire  to  deconstruct  traditional  hierarchies  of  academic  art  education,   exploring  spaces  for  art  around  the  city.

5:30  to  8  pm Group  conversation  with  Dominic  Barter  (BR/UK)   Dominic   Barter   plays   with   social   innovations   based   on   dialogue,   empathy   and   partnership.   In   the   mid-­90s   he   was   instrumental  in  the  development  of  Restorative  Circles,  a  community-­based  and  -­owned  practice  for  dynamic   ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ Council  resolution.  A  long  time  theatre  practitioner,  Dominic  has  developed  daily  practices  for  artists,  a  gift  economy   model  called  Financial  Co-­responsibility  and  currently  collaborates  daily  with  Espaço  Beta,  a  high  school  devoted  to   conviviality  and  relational  intelligence.    At  Respira  Conspira  he  will  hold  a  group  conversation,  taking  its  starting  point   from  an  encounter  on  a  bus  during  the  political  demonstrations  in  2013,  a  moment  where  an  unspoken  connection,   a  kind  of  conspiration,  manifest  between  himself  and  a  fellow  passenger.

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Fri  11/11  from  5:30  to  7:30  pm Reading  group  with  Ian  Ericksson-­Kery  (US) Ian  is  a  writer,  researcher,  and  translator,  with  a  focus  on  the  intersection  of  art  and  political  activism.  He  is  currently   a  resident  at  Capacete.  He  organizes  a  regular  reading  group  in  Rio  de  Janeiro,  carried  out  in  translation  and  through   collective   enunciation.   One   postulate   of   these   meetings   is   having   time   together   to   articulate   desires   in   the   face   of   an  ever-­privatized  present  and  future.  On  this  day  he  will  propose  a  text  to  be  read  out  loud  and  discussed  together.

From  7:30  to  10:30  pm Conversation  through  sound,  with  Marssares  (BR),  Lilian  Zaremba  (BR),  Caetano  (BR),  Gaby  Hartel   (DE),  Thora  Dolven  Balke  (NO),  Leandro  Nerefuh  (BR)  and  Daniel  Sant’Anna  (BR)   This  conversations  participants  work  with  sound  and  music  in  various  ways;;  as  artist,  curator,  broadcaster,  teacher,   ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣-­ formed  live  -­  to  start  a  conversation,  as  an  extension  of  their  own  thinking  and  a  reaction  to  the  questions  posed  by   Respira  Conspira.

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Sat  12/11  from  5  to  7pm Final  presentation  and  talk  about  the  workshop  with  Humberto  Velez  (PA/UK) The  participants  will  collectively  present  their  research  and  impressions  from  the  topics  raised  during  the  workshop.

From  7  to  10:30  pm Conversation  through  movements  and  actions  with  Trine  Falch  (NO),  Michelle  Mattiuzzi  (BR),  Camilla   Rocha  Campos  (BR)  and  Tali  Serruya  (AR/FR) A  day  dedicated  to  performance,  to  the  body,  and  conversation  between  artists  and  an  audience  as  a  reaction  to  the   notion   of   conspiring   -­   of   creating   new   movements   based   current   situations   and   history   from   various   geographical   perspectives.

Trine   Falch␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣ the  participants.  Michelle  Mattiuzzi  is  an  artist  who  uses  her  own  body  to  visualise  historical  and  current  narratives.   Through  people’s  contribution  Camilla  Rocha  Campos  will  make  bubbles  and  build  a  context  loaded  by  humor  and   criticism.  Tali  Serruya  will  create  an  exercise  around  the  contagious  physical  and  emotional  reactions  that  tend  to   spread  through  groups  of  people.

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Mon  14/11  -­  time  to  be  announced Caminhada  de  mulheres  with  Julia  Retz  (BR)  and  Aurelia  Defrance  (FR) ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣  are  invitations  to  take  a  moment …to  gather,  to  drift  collectively  or  to  be  guided …to  trust  intuition  and  knowledge  of  others …to  understand  the  urban  fabric  we  are  part  of ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣ ␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣␣


Pequeno Laboratório

cartaz Pequeno Laboratorio 2016

Pequeno Laboratório : Colocando a mão na massa

Em 2016, o Pequeno Laboratório do CAPACETE volta a funcionar para crianças de 3 a 12 anos. 
Gostaríamos de construir juntos um espaço especial para as crianças, os pais e nós onde trocaremos saberes em um ambiente em que todos podem aprender uns com os outros compartilhando suas habilidades! Oferecemos um espaço de livre brincar, experimentar, ver, falar, sentir, pesquisar, manipular e agir, criado a partir da convivência legítima com o outro! 

Na nossa vivência estarão presentes: música, línguas estrangeiras, visitas à ateliês, bicicleta, plantas, yoga, comida saudável e mais! Junte-se a nós para descobrir os novos experimentos do Pequeno Laboratório!

Toda quarta-feira de manhã 09 às 12h ou de 13 às 16h no CAPACETE, Rio de Janeiro

Preço: 220 reais por mês (com almoço incluído)

Começaremos logo depois do carnaval, dia 17/02

Informações: capacete@capacete.org
Visite nosso blog: https://capacetepequenolaboratorio.wordpress.com/

Mais informações

Pequeno Laboratório nasceu da constatação de que poucas atividades manuais e artísticas são oferecidas no Rio de Janeiro para crianças fora dos horários das escolas, e que, quando existem, são muito caras.
Além disso, na Rua Benjamin Constant, onde a residência CAPACETE está localizada, não há infraestrutura que permita as crianças a terem um lugar para praticar atividades de lazer perto de casa. Pequeno Laboratório pretende permitir que crianças tenham acesso a trabalhos criativos e educação artística proposta por profissionais da arte por um custo razoável, em ordem a ter uma abertura à outras formas de aprendizado; outros espaços sociais e criativos no dia-a-dia.

As interlocutoras das crianças:

Adeline Lépine (1984, Lyon, França)

Adeline Lépine cria situações, momentos específicos e espaços que permitam a reunião entre alguns alteridades (uma obra de arte, uma instituição, um artista, um  » público « , etc) para desencadear novas formas de convivência, pensamento coletivo, diálogo, ação e capacitação por focalizando os links que podem ser forjadas entre a criação e a vida cotidiana. Após estudar História da Arte e trabalhar com crianças em centros sociais, ela trabalhou em vários Centros de Arte e Museus na França como responsável pela parte educativa, programas culturais e eventos. Dês de 2002, ela faz parte da Mediation Culturelle Association, uma rede francesa de profissionais que estão interessados em programar para audiências de instituições da arte e cultura. Ela também é membro-fundadora do coletivo Máquina de Aprender Performance, um projeto artístico e interdisciplinar relacionado à ‘performance art’, iniciado em 2012. Adeline Lépine foi residente do Capacete em 2015 e é a fundadora associada com Caroline Valansi do Pequeno Laboratório.

Camilla Rocha Campos (1985, Barbacena, Brasil)

Artista, produtora, professora e pesquisadora, Camilla Rocha Campos transita num campo de uma arte colaborativa que acontece com a contribuição de pessoas em contextos carregados por ela de um tipo de humor e crítica. Nesse campo relacional, proposto por ela, se engendram experiências da arte contemporânea em produções artísticas, projetos em escolas e universidades e criação de contextos culturais envolvendo um público diversificado em jogos e viagens. Camilla é Mestre em História e Crítica de Arte pelo Instituto de Arte da UERJ (2011) e graduada em Gravura pela Escola de Belas Artes da UFRJ (2007). Professora da Universidade Cândido Mendes desde 2010, Camilla foi professora contratada da UERJ (2014) e UFF (2013). Trabalhou como pesquisadora e escritora auxiliar no projeto Radix-arte da autora Beá Meira para a Editora Scipione, elaborando materiais paradidáticos do ensino médio e fundamental (2008-2015). Em projetos autônomos e autorais como Workshop em curso, Camilla propõe um circuito de visitas em grupo a museus, centro culturais e bienais, dentro e fora do país, fomentando e mediando discussões in-loco enquanto experiências ali são vividas. Em 2016 é residente do programa Capacete.

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Fundadora associada

Caroline Valansi (1979, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil )

Vive e trabalha no Rio de Janeiro. Graduada em Cinema, com pós­graduação em Arte e Filosofia. Sua produção artística caminha entre o espaço coletivo e as histórias íntimas, trabalhando num fluxo transtemporal onde são borradas as fronteiras entre documento e ficção. Esta residente do CAPACETE neste ano.
Exposição individual: Memórias Inventadas em Costuras Simples, no CCJE – Centro Cultural Justiça Eleitoral, RJ, 2009. Exposiçoes collectivas: Parque Lage. Encruzilhada. Rio de Janeiro, 2015 ; El Parqueadero. Sin Querer Saberlo a cargo de Laagencia, dentro do Ciclo de videos Tutoriales. Bogotá, Colombia, 2015 ; Museu Nacional Honestino Guimarães, Situações Brasília – Prêmio de Arte Contemporânea do Distrito Federal. Brasília, 2014 ; etc. Integrou o coletivo OPAVIVARÁ! [www.opavivara.com.br] (2007­2014) e é professora de fotografia e arte para alunos do ensino fundamental e médio. Rio de Janeiro.

 



Costs and fees

 

All participants must pay a fixed participation fee of R$ 6.000 (approximately U$2.400 / Euros 2.000 per year), to be paid in two instalments (please see the application for more information). This fee corresponds to 15% of the total cost of running the program. The other 85% of the program costs will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis requiring that candidates, together with CAPACETE, apply to foundations and institutions in their home country for funding. In our 2015 program all participants received the 85% grants and 3 received a 100% full grant.

The total cost of running the program is R$ 40.000 (approximately U$ 17.000 / Euros 13.000) per participant. CAPACETE and its supporters are granting 85% of these costs (R$ 34.000). This cost does not include housing, food, transportation or other expenses that may be incurred by participants.

It is the intention of CAPACETE to find financing for the cost of the program for all participants through fellowships from foundations, governments, and the private sector. CAPACETE will work with each selected candidate to find the best financial solution for their participation in the program on a need-base system. While this financial assistance cannot be guaranteed, it is our ambition to help each and every accepted candidate to be financed for the remaining 85% of the program fees.

CAPACETE will offer 2 to 3 grants to applicants who do not have access to scholarships and other financial aid through national and international institutions or private donors. These grants will not cover the fixed participation fee of R$ 6.000 (approximately U$2.400 / Euros 2.000 per year)*. These fees will remain the responsibility of the grantees.

*Although in our 2015 program we had 4 grants covering 100% of the fee, we ask the candidate not to consider this as an option as decisions on these situations do vary a lot.

CAPACETE may offer opportunities for up to 15 hours a week of paid work to interested participants to help them finance their stay in Rio de Janeiro. In 2015 we are collaborating* with Antônio Dias, Ernesto Neto, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Daniel Steegmann, Galleria Nara Roesler Rio de Janeiro and Arto Lindsay. More opportunities are being organized. These will include paid internships with local artists and institutions. Participants can rent a living space in our structure (private or shared room and not available for all) or may find their own accommodation (see application form). All participants will also be asked to dedicate 8 hours a week to the maintenance of the space (library, program planning, planting, cooking, cleaning etc.).

*at the moment when we are launching this new open call, these were the names involved in the program! It is to be noticed that this prgram can not garantee a job while you are here.

 


Activities

 

The program is designed as a fluid and adaptive platform of exchange between the participants and the lecturers and advisors. The program will offer 9 seminars given by 9 lecturers from different backgrounds. Seminars will extend from 3 days to up to 5 days duration. Each lecturer will also do a public talk open to the main public. In addition, different talks, presentations and events will be organized throughout the year with other guest lecturers.

One of the ambitions of our program is to have each yearly program culminate in a collective project, designed by the participants, one that can take on any number of forms (presentation, performance, publication, exhibition, seminar etc.). However, in keeping with the participative logic of our project, rather than frame this as a requirement, we prefer to conceive of it as a potential whose actualization will be decided by the participants themselves.

Participants are also encouraged to develop individual projects. Use of the facilities of CAPACETE resort office and exhibition space and other infrastructure will be made available for such projects, and contact with local institutions and agents will also be facilitated. The program will organize trips to different sites of interests in accordance with the selected group of participants (walks, seminars in different sites); and for this, will collaborate with similar organizations in Brazil and South America.

Studio visits with local and visiting professionals, as well as visits to the studios of local artists will also be organized. It is important to note that CAPACETE is not a studio-based program. Work facilities are available and can be organized on a case-by-case basis, but designated workspaces are not automatically provided for each participant.

Travels will be organized once the group is composed and must take into account the general program of the year. Example : study trip to Minas Gerais, a project that is part of the lecture of Carla Zaccagnini ; a trip to another country in latin america ) should be carried forward as finances allow ) etc.

Our residency place in the Copan building in Sao Paulo, will be of full advantage for participants on their visits to Sao Paulo and also should provoke different forms of collaboration with professionals in this city.

 


Participants

 

Participants
CAPACETE operates at the para-academic level and applications for the program are free and open for applicants of any age that are active in the cultural field from all over the world. Priority, however, will be given to researchers in beginning of their career. It is not imperative that applicants possess a BFA or MFA for eligibility, but a consistent dedication to their own research is required. Candidates can have an educational background or interest in different disciplines (anthropology, choreography, dance, etc.) nevertheless it is important that the applicants understand the program directives. It should be noted that this program inherits and transforms sixteen years of activities of CAPACETE entertainment. Thus, in order to have a better understanding of CAPACETE, we recommend that you look at the attached document in order to understand this background and context.

CAPACETE brings together professionals from different backgrounds that are fully invested in their practice of choice. Therefore, we require the participant to give full dedication to the program’s overall activities.


Objectives

 

CAPACETE launches the second edition of its yearly program in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for up to 12 international participants dedicated to research and practice in the arts and critical thought. It will start its second edition in March 2016. Thought is action.

Vision
Our globalized contexts are structured by an unequal social distribution of labour and wealth, increasingly moulded by speculative market-based economics. Many of today’s cultural manifestations are large-scale events that are too often either directed at a generic public or a restricted elite. This reduces and neutralizes the concrete ethical and political reach of art, as well as its potential for fostering discussion and inspiring other ways of working, thinking, relating, and living.
Our intention is to build situations and develop strategies that provide a concrete and actual alternative to this state of affairs. Our program is designed to reflect the cross-disciplinary character of contemporary aesthetic practices, by working with artists and thinkers whose endeavours articulate the theoretical world with artistic presentations in several formats and dynamics and for different audiences. By challenging the actual state of culture, economy and education, our primary function will embrace self-organized, artist-run, participatory and collaborative modes of action as a fundamental part of the content and structure of its activities.
Such initiatives can only be developed over time, by means of the simultaneous activation and advancement of various forms of exchange, distribution, and production. Our intention is to remain responsive and fluid throughout this process, adjusting our strategies, tactics, and aims as we develop. An integral aim of our program is to continually expand our platform of exchange, by bringing in new participants and interlocutors, fostering relationships with different institutions and organizations, as well as by deepening our ties and relationships with established collaborators.
CAPACETE acts at the intersection of various social and professional fields, thus requiring the selected participants to fully embrace an open and “horizontal” dialogue, and to actively engage in program activities by instigating projects that can in turn act as platforms for disseminating information, promoting active responses, and generating public debate.

Context
Brazil’s paradoxical reality has been moulded by colonial power structures, as can be seen in its asymmetrical class structure, regular incidents of state violence, and in its unexamined logic of unrestrained exploitation and profit, all of which were reinforced by two military dictatorships in the 20th century and more recently by Latin-style neo-liberalism. Constantly undergoing economic changes and political transformations, the government’s predilection for short- term cultural policies added to a lack of investment in cultural institutions, has generated a fragile cultural context. Meanwhile, corporations have been actively investing in and dominating the cultural landscape, motivated in large part by tax deduction policies and federal laws (cf. Lei Rouanet, 1995). This has generated high-profile venture and publicity but very little in the way of productive and continuous critical and political discussion, hence weakening an already fragile cultural context. In a country that has one of the highest wealth concentrations in the world, this has contributed to accentuate and maintain socio-cultural disparities.
One perverse result of a weak cultural scenario is the isolation of autonomous cultural producers and authors who, despite having a strong and important practice, cannot find the means to articulate their research and knowledge with other practices, actors and systems. CAPACETE intends to operate on a micro-scale, raising different modes of representation and production by means of intimate connections. Its cross-disciplinary approach aims to challenge and reinvigorate the actual Brazilian context and give it a different visibility, by creating actual alternatives to the existing cultural networks and formats. Working on a small scale is an essential part of our endeavour, as was also the case with the Capacete Entertainment Residency Program. In that sense, CAPACETE can be seen as the continuation and reactivation of practices and strategies developed by its former residency program, both designed to thicken socio-political and cultural practices by providing an active ground for discussion, debate, and cultural reflection.

Facilities
CAPACETE has its own infrastructure: a house located in the neighbourhood of Glória, Rio de Janeiro, which consists of a fully equipped apartment for visiting contributors, a library (in different languages), a small flexible multi-purpose exhibition space, a lecture room, multi-purpose rooms, a garden, 2 fully-equipped kitchens (one in open air for bigger events). CAPACETE also co-runs a hotel-like structure where many professionals have been hosted during their visit to Rio de Janeiro. This structure will stay in close contact with CAPACETE and provide support for its activities.
Program Aims
+ To build on the legacy of 16 years of activity by the CAPACETE entertainments international residency program within a different program and structure;
+ To contribute to the local context by providing an educational research program of public interest for national and international young practitioners;
+ To foster new modes of operation and instigate a collective sensibility;
+ To rethink modes of production in an accelerated society;
+ To shape different labour relations based on conviviality and exchange;
+ To promote cross-disciplinary research within the different spheres of the social, establishing a forum for continuous public debate and exchange related to contemporary aesthetical practices and socio-political issues;
+ To establish and maintain a specialized archive and database on local and international cultural practices, including publications, dossiers, exhibitions, seminars and a website;
+ To create an environment that is accessible to participants from different economical backgrounds by helping finance their living expenses and participation in the program;
+ To interact with the local art context and community;
+ To collaborate with other similar national and international initiatives;
+ To operate in a sustainable and environmentally-conscious manner, and foster awareness by means of specific events, such as seminars, events, use of eco-friendly technologies, etc.;

Program
12 participants will be selected for the program. Our aim is to reserve 4 positions for Brazilians, 4 for South Americans, and 4 for the rest of the world. The duration of the program is 10 months, from the 1st of March to the 16th of December, with a one-month break in August during the Olympic games, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro.
The program is designed as a fluid and adaptive platform of exchange between the participants and the lecturers and advisors. The program will offer 9 seminars given by 9 lecturers from different backgrounds. Seminars will extend from 3 days to up to 5 days duration. Each lecturer will also do a public talk open to the main public. In addition, different talks, presentations and events will be organized throughout the year with other guest lecturers.
One of the ambitions of our program is to have each yearly program culminate in a collective project, designed by the participants, one that can take on any number of forms (presentation, performance, publication, exhibition, seminar etc.). However, in keeping with the participative logic of our project, rather than frame this as a requirement, we prefer to conceive of it as a potential whose actualization will be decided by the participants themselves.
Participants are also encouraged to develop individual projects. Use of the facilities of CAPACETE resort office and exhibition space and other infrastructure will be made available for such projects, and contact with local institutions and agents will also be facilitated. The program will organize trips to different sites of interests in accordance with the selected group of participants (walks, seminars in different sites); and for this, will collaborate with similar organizations in Brazil and South America.
Studio visits with local and visiting professionals, as well as visits to the studios of local artists will also be organized. It is important to note that CAPACETE is not a studio-based program. Work facilities are available and can be organized on a case-by-case basis, but designated workspaces are not automatically provided for each participant.






Agenda 2015

 

The 2015 program is constituted mainly by:

1 – 10 lectures of 3 to 5 days each closed to the group of selected participants;

2 – 1 talk/presentation/performance each wednesday night at 19:00 by invited professionals. We shal lhave about 35 guests;

3 – The program also includes studio visits to local artists, trips to São Paulo and other cities and may also include another trip south american country (if finances of the participants allow);

4 – A final project that shall be discussed with the group along the year;

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The lectures for 2015 are (closed to the participants and dates can have changes):

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16/17 of March with Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

Humanity, person and multiplicity
The seminar will reflect upon the variations and tranformations of the notion of “human” in different onthological refrains, focusing on the problens of concepts such as multiplicity, conexion, neighborhood relationship, limit and becoming. I will present specific cases provenient from ethnographical studies about different societies taken as tradicional and non-Eastern. These cases will be articulated with reflections produced about the hipercapitalist capitalis context. I aim to, in other words, offer elements to the understending of specific configurations of body and person involved in different status of mankind and its respective regimes of creativity and expression.

Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino has graduated from the Universidade de São Paulo and has his máster and PhD in social ontropology through Museu Nacional/ UFRJ. He researches indian etnology (with emphasis on studies of shamanism and cosmology), oral traditions, translation and anthropology of art. Was Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Art History of Art at the Federal University of São Paulo. He is currently professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of São Paulo, in the field of Anthropology of Expressive Forms. He is the author of “Oniska – poetic shamanism in Amazonia” (São Paulo, Prospect, 2011) and “When the earth stopped talking” – Marubo corners of the mythology (Editora 34, 2013), and numerous articles published in professional journals. In recent years, also published literary texts and works of drama.

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12-17 of April – Amilcar Packer

Guided conversations – compose a mediational space – through clinical and philosophical and poetical perspectives – that tangent the curatorial – excuses to let time go – together – for a few days – contradicting – and insisting – in provisional states – and digesthétics – skin of thinking – ethics of existence.

Amilcar Packer was born in Santiago de Chile in 1974 and moved to Brazil in 1982. Degree in Philosophy by the University of São Paulo, is finishing a Master in Clinical Psychology by the Center for the Study of Subjectivity of the PUC São Paulo. Packer develops a practice that reconfigures the semantic fields of objects, architectures and human bodies through actions and interventions, photographies, videos, installations, and presentations in various formats establishing relational fields, which seek to subvert the normative grammars of social spaces and historical mechanisms of power. Its activities aim to neutralize dominant discourses, and contribute to uninstall oppression devices that are crystallized in the cultural distribution of the sensible – with its correlate segregation of space -; in the sedimentation of power structures – and its naturalization in language; and in social and socializing behavioral standards – and its politics of homogenization of subjectivities.
Packer collaborates regularly with artist-run and autonomous intiatives such as Como_clube, Casa do Povo and CAPACETE, where, between the years of 2011 and 2013, he co-directed the international artistic research residency program. Taking the arts as a less hierarchical activity and privileged field for developping ethical experimentations, his activities are extended to discursive formats, classes and workshops, meetings and conversations, lunches and tours that establish spaces and provisional states for collective dynamics, where predominate building horizontality, critical debate, mutual learning and coexistence. In recent years, he participated in educational programs as Städelschule, Frankfurt , Germany, 2013; PIESP – Porgrama Independente da Escola São Paulo, 2013; Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013; History Matter CCA – Lagos, Nigeria in 2012; Universidade de Verão, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 and 2013; New Choreographers, CCSP, 2010; the Harbor School, Beta Local in San Juan , Puerto Rico , in 2011; On Reason and Emotion, Sydney Biennial 2004 educational programs – Hobart School of the Arts, Launceston School of the Arts, Tasmania, Autrália, 2004

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Jorge Menna Barreto

May – Jorge Menna Barreto

Food activism, agroecology and site-specific practices are among the issues to be discussed and practiced in a colaborative and imersive 7-day workshop in the country side of Rio de Janeiro.
Jorge Menna Barreto – Artist, translator, professor, educator and critic. MFA and PHD in Fine Arts from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Presently doing a post-doctoral research at UDESC on the relationship between agroecology and site-specific practices in art.

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Beginning of june – Daniela Castro & Anne Szefer Karlsen

The course address the impact that Neoliberalism has had on the social production of space and on artistic production. From an investigation about the political and economical transformations that influenced significant spatial changes in the last decades, we will show the mechanisms by which the city became the stage for the instrumentalization of culture in the age of financial capital.
The instrumentalization of culture as a symbiotic relationship with economy was a construction of the hegemonic power, one designated  as a response to the crisis of the world “stagflation” at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s.  This response culminated in the delegation of financial capital to the private sphere for the elaboration of public policies oriented towards establish the social and aesthetical contours of the city and of the arts.
Since the 80s, we have seen bureacucratic administration of the city move from the public sector to current models of private-public partnerships of urban enterpreneurism. In the arts system as well, the decline of state funding and the growing influence of corporate sponsorship (either directly or by means tax subsidies) have spread thoroughout the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art. The workshop will focus on the mechanisms by which this symbiotic relationship between economy and culture “naturalizes” the power exerted by the interests of private capital as an agent who defines the landscape of social life.

Daniela Castro (Brasil, 1976) Daniela Castro (1976, Brazil) is a writer and curator based in  São Paulo. Castro graduated in Art History from University of Toronto (2003/Canada). She has been awarded study grants and residency fellowships at the University of Hong Kong (2002/China), Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum (2005/Italy), the Art Gallery of York University (2007/Canada), Hordaland Kunstsenter in (2010/Norway) and IASPIS (2010/Sweden). Conceived and curated the *Recombining Territories, *an itinerant and interchanging exhibition that’s travelled seven capitals of Brazil (2006-2010). Co-curated with Jochen Volz *The Spiral and the Square: exercises on translatability *at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, which interchanged and travelled to Trondheim and Kristiansand, both in Norway (2011-12). Curated *A Radically Condensed History of Post-Industrial Life LADO A/LADO B*, an exhibition in LP format for the “Impossible Show” at El Spacio, Madrid (2010-11). Curated *Lights Out, *the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound – MIS (2008/São Paulo). She’s been publishing widely in national and international art publications, and taught workshops on art writing and curatorial practices throughout Brazil.  Published her first book, co-authored with Fabio Morais, titled *ARTE E MUNDO APÓS A CRISE DAS UTOPIAS, assim mesmo, em CAIXA ALTA e sem notas de roda-pé *(Florianópolis: Par(ent)esis Art Book Publisher, 2010)

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Ricardo Basbaum

Final de Junho – Ricardo Basbaum

The production of the artist: conversations and exercises on the production of oneself as an artist
This workshop proposes to raise a collective conversation and discussion about some of the traces and topics that constitute the “image of the contemporary artist” – and also, through a series of written exercises, bring the problem of “how one produces oneself as an artist” as a matter of practice. The departure point is the comprehension that the contemporary system of art is a complex composition of several layers of mediation that needs to be experienced by whoever intends to make a move in such a territory; this is a consequence, by one side, of the 1960s ‘dematerialization’ of the art practice, and, by other, of the so-called ‘globalization’ process typical from the new economic world order which emerged since the 1980s. Among so many different layers of institutional and relational protocols, where can be located the artist and the artwork, subject and object of the sensorial and conceptual experience? The workshop is organized around a pre-prepaired set of problems that encompass some of the aspects involved in the contemporary art practice – from the practitioners’ point of view, specially the artist: the context, the proposition, the group, the historical and critical discourses, the curatorial knowledge, etc. What is generated from this is a conversation about how one produces oneself as an artist in face of the local/global context. For each topic, a specific bibliography is assigned. The dynamics includes the reading and discussion of texts, but also that each of the participants writes in direct relation to each of the themes: the texts are then collectively read and discussed at each meeting. Therefore, writing and reading are meant to be taken as practical exercises on the “production of oneself as contemporary artist” at a specif location and context.

Ricardo Basbaum (São Paulo, Brazil 1961). Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an artist and writer, investigating art as an intermediating device and platform for the articulation between sensorial experience, sociability and language. Since the late 1980s, he has been nurturing a vocabulary specific to his work, applying it in a particular way to each new project. His work was recently included at Something in Space Escapes our Attempts at Surveying (Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2014), the 30º São Paulo Biennalle (2012), Garden of Learning (Busan, 2012) and Counter-Production (Generali, Viena, 2012), among other events. Exhibited at documenta 12 (2007). Recent solo-projects include re-projecting (london) (The Showroom, London,2013). An athology of his diagrams was presented at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain (diagrams, 2013). He is the author of Manual do artista-etc (Azougue, 2013) and Além da pureza visual (Zouk, 2007) and contributed to Materialität der Diagramme – Kunst und Theorie (edited by Susanne Leeb, b_books, 2012). Professor at the Instituto de Artes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Worked as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (2013).

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andrea fraser

End of August – Andrea Fraser

Andrea will lead a 4 day workshop focused on a range of psychoanalytic approaches to group relations, art engagement, and performance. The workshop will include a discussion of readings that will be provided; experiential self-study of group process; performance exercises; and group discussions of projects by participants applying various methods.

Andrea Fraser is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work has been identified with performance, feminism, context art and institutional critique. She was a founding member of the feminist performance group The V-Girls (1986-1996), the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998) and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-2008). Her books include A Society of Taste, Kunstverein München, 1993; Report, EA-Generali Foundation, 1995; Andrea Fraser: Works 1985-2003, DuMont Buchverlag, 2003; Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, MIT Press, 2005; and Texts, Scripts, Transcripts, Museum Ludwig Köln, 2013. The Museum Ludwig Köln presented a retrospective of her work in 2013 in conjunction with her receipt of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. She is Professor of New Genres in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles and visiting faculty at the Whitney Independent Study Program.

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Bik van der Pol

Septembero – Bik van der Pol

Proposition for reclaiming a space

This seminar concerns the ability and responsibility of artists to be in charge of their own ‘context’, in terms of both production and presentation. The broader aim concerns the urgent question if and where art may be of service in producing a public sphere, also in the political sense of that term. Our hypothesis is that the increasing privatisation of public property, as well as the increasing use of private date for public ‘good’ under neoliberalist developments has lead to the loss of a somehow meaningful public space.

Our concern is that if this loss coincides with the loss of the position of the artwork in the eye of the public, how then can art as public space be disclosed-or somehow be useful- for its political potential. In a world where the value of art is challenged, it is timely to reinvest in its place in society. For a society to be, encounters have to happen, and in order to experience the potentiality of space to become public, its conditions have to be created to prepare the ground for an encounter to occur.

We embrace the qualities intrinsic to artistic practice, as a means to disclose – make public – what is at stake in public space. The issue of public space has long been articulated in close connection to democracy, and many theorists have argued that when democracy is under threat, so is public space. The discussion of public issues is therefore not exclusively of this time, but all the more relevant in light of the current increase of private ownership and privatization of public space.

With the term ‘public space’ we refer to any site of potential conflict over rights, information, relations, and objects – a space that requires articulation, so that a community can be formed, called to order, and enter the order of the political. ‘Publicness’ does not manifest itself in spatial matters only. In fact, recent debates over forms of common property such as knowledge and culture show that public space is to be understood in the broadest terms possible – as that which holds the fabric of experience-as-community together. Threatened by forms or acts of exclusion, privileged access, and disinformation, these sites of public property are just as precarious as natural resources, and need to be rearticulated time and again. However, if the economic paradigm forces us to retreat from the realm of publicness, then what is the public issue?

The model of the dialogue, understood as a constant negotiation between citizens in any form, will be investigated on its potential to establish and articulate collective space.

 

Bik Van der Pol work collectively since 1995. They live and work in Rotterdam.
Website: www.bikvanderpol.net <http://www.bikvanderpol.net/>
Bik Van der Pol explore the potential of art to produce and transmit knowledge. Their working method is based on co-operation and research methods of how to activate situations as to create a platform for various kinds of communicative activities.
solo shows and projects (selection):
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sudbury, Canada (2012);
Accumulate, Collect, Show, new work for Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London; Musagetes Foundation, Sudbury (2011)
Are you really sure a floor can’t also be a ceiling? ENEL Award 2010, MACRO museum, Rome (2010)
It isn’t what it used to be and will never be again, CCA Glasgow (2009)
I’ve got something in my eye, Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Plug In 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, 2, 3, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2008)
Issuefighters, INSA Art Space, Seoul (2007). Workshopproject and publication (entitled +82, appeared feb.2007); Fly Me To The Moon, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2007)
Secession, Vienna (2005)
Nomads in Residence/No.19, a mobile workspace for artists, Utrecht (2003, with Korteknie Stuhlmacher architects)

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Carla Zaccagnini

October– Carla Zaccagnini

Between 1993 and 1998 I worked in an educational travel agency that was called at, that time, “Pagu”. The agency had to change its name due to a complaint filed by Patricia Galvão’s heirs. In my work I used to guide 7th grade students through the historical cities of Minas Gerais: Ouro Preto, Mariana, Congonhas, Tiradentes, and other ones. Abandoned when the gold-mining industry came to an end, these cities mantained most of their urban structure, the buildings and the characteristic objects of XVIII and XIX century society and culture. I feel that these buildings and objects now have an ambivalent status, between that of an art work, an architectural monument, and a hsitorical document.
We used to have enriching conversations amongst the group of historians and the students that accompanied me on these trips. We discussed the pendulum-like dynamic of testimonies from the past, as well as the social function of the arts, the definitive role of the observer, certain conceptions of Brazilian art, and the structure of our contemporary society. It makes me think then that it is maybe by means of a certain distancing that we can gain a perspective on the past, one that might help us see things clearly. Maybe, on the other hand, it can be by a certain kind of “dive” in those places that clues from this history can be perceived, a history that somehow still acts upon us and appears everywhere, surrounding us. Or perhaps, such perspectives were engendered by the fact that our group of people drifted through these places for several days, focusing on thinking about what these places inspired in us.
I propose that we make this journey together.

Carla Zaccagnini (Buenos Aires, 1973 – Lives in São Paulo and Malmö) is an artist and writer with a Master in Poéticas Visuais at Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. She is currently a grantee of the KfW Stiftung at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Program (Berlim, 2013-14). She took part in the following group exhibitions 9th Shanghai Biennale (Xangai, 2012), 2nde Biennale de Benin (Cotonou, 2012), Planos de Fuga, uma exposição em obras (CCBB-SP, 2012),Modelos para Armar: Pensar Latinoamérica desde la colección MUSAC (Leon, Espanha, 2010) and28a Bienal de São Paulo (2008), among others. Recent solo shows include Pelas Bordas (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2013),Plano de falla (Ignacio Liprandi, Buenos Aires, 2011), Imposible pero necesario(Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, 2010) and no. it is opposition. (Art Galery of York University, Toronto, 2008). Her work has been featured in Cream 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 2003), Contemporary Art Brazil(Thames and Hudson, London 2012) and Art Cities of the Future, 21st-Century Avant-Gardes (London: Phaidon Press, 2013)and is currently represented by Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo) and Joan Prats (Barcelona).

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Christoph Keller

Cristoph Keller

Hydrology for Artists – An Archeology and Futurology of Hydroelectric Interventions in the Tropical Landscape
The workshop will investigate methods and technologies of hydroelectric industries and their long-term effects on the tropical landscape, climate and bio-diversity in Brazil and South America.
It will offer an introduction into a fictitious “Hydrology for Artists”, assembling basic information and methodologies in the field of hydrology, climatology, energy supply and demand and the technology of hydroelectric plants. The complex situation of bio-diversity and climatology in the greater Amazonian basin will be examined as well as the history of energy extraction through industrial undertakings in the tropical landscape. We will invite guest speakers ranging from scientists to mentors of indigenous rights, watch films and analyze material related to the topic.
The aim is to enable the participants to contribute to the public debate around the topic and mediate it with artistic means and from an arts perspective.
In his installations frequently resembling experimental configurations, German artist Christoph Keller uses the discursive possibilities of art to investigate the themes of science and its utopias. The Cloudbuster-Projects (since 2003) involve reenactments of Wilhelm Reich’s experiments for influencing the atmosphere with orgon energy. In Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (2001) and Archives as Objects as Monuments (2000), Keller focuses upon the archeology of scientific film, the impossibility of objective documentation, and the problem of the archival urge to bring order to comprehensive knowledge. In spite of all methodological objectivity, a selective and deliberate design is always at work here. In Expedition-Bus and Shaman-Travel (2002), a mirrored camping bus for research trips, the ethnographic viewpoint of science is exposed as a projection of its own culture. The viewer is drawn into the installation and becomes a field investigator, for Keller is ultimately concerned with linking the methods and procedures of scientific work with a spatial but also psychological-physical experiencing of art.

Keller is often working on themes at the frontiers of science, such as the connection between hypnosis and cinematography in Hypnosis-Film-Project (2007) or Visiting a Contemporary Art Museum under Hypnosis (2006) for which he studied and experimentally applied hypnotic methods: The Mesmer Room (2006). In The Chemtrails Phenomenon (2006) and The Whole Earth (2007), the theme is conspiracy theories in the Internet, which as “scientific constructs” are likewise expressions of a certain state of consciousness in society. In his work-cycle on Inverse Observatories (since 2007) Keller reverses the view: It is not the universe that is observed, but rather the observation itself. In 2008 he also founded an interdisciplinary research group for the representation of altered states in the arts at the Art-University of Bern. Leading to the very boundaries of language is the video-installation Interpreters (2008) in which simultaneous translators translate in two directions while reflecting on their work. The video Verbal/ Nonverbal (2010) shows a number of test subjects in front of a neutral white background inhaling a hallucinogenic gas and hence speaking about their experiences.
Christoph Keller first studied mathematics, physics and hydrology, before continuing his studies at the art academy in Berlin and in Cologne. His works are present in many international exhibitions like the Lyon Biennial (2011), Klimakapseln, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (2010), the Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Argentina (2009), Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009), Dreamtime, Musé des Abattoirs in Toulouse (2009), Artfocus Jerusalem (2008), Made in Germany in Hannover (2007) or the solo-exhibition Observatorium in the Kunstverein Braunschweig (2008) or LIAF Lofoten (2011). Æther – between cosmology and consciousness (2011) at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris was his first artistic and curatorial-project in an institutional context.
He received several awards and grants for his work like the Ars Viva-Preis for art and science, the P.S.1 studio-grant in New York, Residences Internationales aux Recollets, Paris, BM Suma in Istanbul and Capacete in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Christoph Kelller is based in Berlin. Currently he is teaching as guest professor for media art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, as well as at the visual art department of the Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva.

 

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Suely Rolink

End of november/december – Suely Rolnik

How to dribble the colonial unconscious?
Walking along a Mobius strip with Lygia Clark, some Tupinambá Indians and a few Frenchmen, Suely Rolnik will seek to bring to light and mobilize a political consciousness anchored in the production in thought, desire, and subjectivity. Politics of this sort were directly repressed by Occidental Europe in all of the cultures that were subjected to it (including those within its geographical boundaries) during the colonial period and its offshoots. This repression constituted the fundamental micropolitical operation of colonization.

The productive politics we propose is nowadays on the path to its actualization, injecting its corporeal knowledge into the logocentric veins of the Occidental modernity in crisis. Such a return of the repressed in the exercise of the thought relies on its strength and craftiness in order to dribble the Colonial Unconscious, one that still structures subjectivity and structures the play of desire in our time. Is it not the irruption of precisely such a return of the repressed that we see manifesting itself in the various movements that have been filling the streets and squares of cities worldwide? If that is the case, one should keep in mind that the task at hand is indefinite, and in need of constant renewal and attention.

Suely Rolnik / Psychoanalyst, is an art and culture critic and curator. Professor at PUC – SP in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology , and faculty member of the Program of Studies Independientes ( PEI ) at the Museo d’ Art Contemporani Barcelona ( MACBA ). Conducted the project “Obra-Acontecimento”, 65 films that research the memory effects of the poetics of Lygia Clark in the body of the respondents ( a version of the file containing 20 interviews and a booklet was chosen by the Art Forum in the top 10 projects art 2011 and received the first prize of the Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial 2013 ). She was co-curator of the exhibition with C. Diserens “Somos o molde. As you fit the breath . Lygia Clark, da obra ao acontecimento” ( Musée de Beaux Arts de Nantes , 2005 and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo , 2006). Was a founder of the network  The South Conceptualisms (currently composed of 50 researchers from across the continent ); was member of the jury of the Premio Casa de las Americas (Havana , 2014 ) and currently is a member of the advisory board of the 31st São Paulo Biennial taking place from 06 /09 to 09/ 12 2014 . Author of the books “Geopolítica da cafetinagem”. Four essays on the pathology of the present ( SP , N – 1 , 2014; press) , Archive Mania ( dOCUMENTA 13 , 2011) , Anthropophagie Zombie ( Paris, 2012) , Sentimental Cartography . Contemporary transformations of desire ( SP 1989; . 6th ed southern fringes , 2014 ) . and co – authored with Felix Guattari , Micropolitics . Cartographies of desire ( SP 1986; . 11th ed 2011) , published in 7 countries . Author of over 200 papers published in several languages ​​.

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helmut

All year round – Helmut Batista
Solvitur ambulando/ It is solved by walking
Is a 10 month workshop with discussions arround questions of acceleration and reduction of production.

Helmut Batista (Rio de Janeiro 1964) studied opera at ESAT/France and worked at the opera of Viena. In 1998 funds CAPACETE, a non profit organization think tank for contemporary investigation. Has produced and organized innumerable talks, presentations, seminars and exhibitions in Brazil and internationally. As an artists, until 1997, he has exhibited at Gallery Schipper, Air de Paris, Massimo de Carlo, Von Senger among others. In 2013 curated an exhibition intitled “CAPACETE” at Portikus in Frankfurt.

 


Pedagogical team

The tutors are (visiting tutors along the whole year): Leandro Nerefuh e Helmut Batista (bios are at the end of this page, please scroll down)

The conferencist for 2016 are:


andrea fraser
Andrea Fraser
Andrea will lead a 4 day workshop focused on a range of psychoanalytic approaches to group relations, art engagement, and performance. The workshop will include a discussion of readings that will be provided; experiential self-study of group process; performance exercises; and group discussions of projects by participants applying various methods.
Andrea Fraser is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work has been identified with performance, feminism, context art and institutional critique. She was a founding member of the feminist performance group The V-Girls (1986-1996), the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998) and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-2008). Her books include A Society of Taste, Kunstverein München, 1993; Report, EA-Generali Foundation, 1995; Andrea Fraser: Works 1985-2003, DuMont Buchverlag, 2003; Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser, MIT Press, 2005; and Texts, Scripts, Transcripts, Museum Ludwig Köln, 2013. The Museum Ludwig Köln presented a retrospective of her work in 2013 in conjunction with her receipt of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize. She is Professor of New Genres in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles and visiting faculty at the Whitney Independent Study Program.
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Suely Rolink

Suely Rolnik
How to dribble the colonial unconscious?
Walking along a Mobius strip with Lygia Clark, some Tupinambá Indians and a few Frenchmen, Suely Rolnik will seek to bring to light and mobilize a political consciousness anchored in the production in thought, desire, and subjectivity. Politics of this sort were directly repressed by Occidental Europe in all of the cultures that were subjected to it (including those within its geographical boundaries) during the colonial period and its offshoots. This repression constituted the fundamental micropolitical operation of colonization.

The productive politics we propose is nowadays on the path to its actualization, injecting its corporeal knowledge into the logocentric veins of the Occidental modernity in crisis. Such a return of the repressed in the exercise of the thought relies on its strength and craftiness in order to dribble the Colonial Unconscious, one that still structures subjectivity and structures the play of desire in our time. Is it not the irruption of precisely such a return of the repressed that we see manifesting itself in the various movements that have been filling the streets and squares of cities worldwide? If that is the case, one should keep in mind that the task at hand is indefinite, and in need of constant renewal and attention.
Suely Rolnik / Psychoanalyst, is an art and culture critic and curator. Professor at PUC – SP in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology , and faculty member of the Program of Studies Independientes ( PEI ) at the Museo d’ Art Contemporani Barcelona ( MACBA ). Conducted the project “Obra-Acontecimento”, 65 films that research the memory effects of the poetics of Lygia Clark in the body of the respondents ( a version of the file containing 20 interviews and a booklet was chosen by the Art Forum in the top 10 projects art 2011 and received the first prize of the Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial 2013 ). She was co-curator of the exhibition with C. Diserens “Somos o molde. As you fit the breath . Lygia Clark, da obra ao acontecimento” ( Musée de Beaux Arts de Nantes , 2005 and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo , 2006). Was a founder of the network  The South Conceptualisms (currently composed of 50 researchers from across the continent ); was member of the jury of the Premio Casa de las Americas (Havana , 2014 ) and currently is a member of the advisory board of the 31st São Paulo Biennial taking place from 06 /09 to 09/ 12 2014 . Author of the books “Geopolítica da cafetinagem”. Four essays on the pathology of the present ( SP , N – 1 , 2014; press) , Archive Mania ( dOCUMENTA 13 , 2011) , Anthropophagie Zombie ( Paris, 2012) , Sentimental Cartography . Contemporary transformations of desire ( SP 1989; . 6th ed southern fringes , 2014 ) . and co – authored with Felix Guattari , Micropolitics . Cartographies of desire ( SP 1986; . 11th ed 2011) , published in 7 countries . Author of over 200 papers published in several languages ​​.
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Carla Zaccagnini

Carla Zaccagnini
Between 1993 and 1998 I worked in an educational travel agency that was called at, that time, “Pagu”. The agency had to change its name due to a complaint filed by Patricia Galvão’s heirs. In my work I used to guide 7th grade students through the historical cities of Minas Gerais: Ouro Preto, Mariana, Congonhas, Tiradentes, and other ones. Abandoned when the gold-mining industry came to an end, these cities mantained most of their urban structure, the buildings and the characteristic objects of XVIII and XIX century society and culture. I feel that these buildings and objects now have an ambivalent status, between that of an art work, an architectural monument, and a hsitorical document.
We used to have enriching conversations amongst the group of historians and the students that accompanied me on these trips. We discussed the pendulum-like dynamic of testimonies from the past, as well as the social function of the arts, the definitive role of the observer, certain conceptions of Brazilian art, and the structure of our contemporary society. It makes me think then that it is maybe by means of a certain distancing that we can gain a perspective on the past, one that might help us see things clearly. Maybe, on the other hand, it can be by a certain kind of “dive” in those places that clues from this history can be perceived, a history that somehow still acts upon us and appears everywhere, surrounding us. Or perhaps, such perspectives were engendered by the fact that our group of people drifted through these places for several days, focusing on thinking about what these places inspired in us.
I propose that we make this journey together.
 Carla Zaccagnini (Buenos Aires, 1973 – Lives in São Paulo and Malmö) is an artist and writer with a Master in Poéticas Visuais at Escola de Comunicação e Artes, Universidade de São Paulo. She is currently a grantee of the KfW Stiftung at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Program (Berlim, 2013-14). She took part in the following group exhibitions 9th Shanghai Biennale (Xangai, 2012), 2nde Biennale de Benin (Cotonou, 2012), Planos de Fuga, uma exposição em obras (CCBB-SP, 2012),Modelos para Armar: Pensar Latinoamérica desde la colección MUSAC (Leon, Espanha, 2010) and28a Bienal de São Paulo (2008), among others. Recent solo shows include Pelas Bordas (Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, 2013),Plano de falla (Ignacio Liprandi, Buenos Aires, 2011), Imposible pero necesario(Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, 2010) and no. it is opposition. (Art Galery of York University, Toronto, 2008). Her work has been featured in Cream 3 (London: Phaidon Press, 2003), Contemporary Art Brazil(Thames and Hudson, London 2012) and Art Cities of the Future, 21st-Century Avant-Gardes (London: Phaidon Press, 2013)and is currently represented by Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo) and Joan Prats (Barcelona).
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daniela

Daniela Castro & Anne Szefer Karlsen
The course address the impact that Neoliberalism has had on the social production of space and on artistic production. From an investigation about the political and economical transformations that influenced significant spatial changes in the last decades, we will show the mechanisms by which the city became the stage for the instrumentalization of culture in the age of financial capital.
The instrumentalization of culture as a symbiotic relationship with economy was a construction of the hegemonic power, one designated  as a response to the crisis of the world “stagflation” at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s.  This response culminated in the delegation of financial capital to the private sphere for the elaboration of public policies oriented towards establish the social and aesthetical contours of the city and of the arts.
Since the 80s, we have seen bureacucratic administration of the city move from the public sector to current models of private-public partnerships of urban enterpreneurism. In the arts system as well, the decline of state funding and the growing influence of corporate sponsorship (either directly or by means tax subsidies) have spread thoroughout the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art. The workshop will focus on the mechanisms by which this symbiotic relationship between economy and culture “naturalizes” the power exerted by the interests of private capital as an agent who defines the landscape of social life.
Daniela Castro (Brasil, 1976) Daniela Castro (1976, Brazil) is a writer and curator based in  São Paulo. Castro graduated in Art History from University of Toronto (2003/Canada). She has been awarded study grants and residency fellowships at the University of Hong Kong (2002/China), Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum (2005/Italy), the Art Gallery of York University (2007/Canada), Hordaland Kunstsenter in (2010/Norway) and IASPIS (2010/Sweden). Conceived and curated the *Recombining Territories, *an itinerant and interchanging exhibition that’s travelled seven capitals of Brazil (2006-2010). Co-curated with Jochen Volz *The Spiral and the Square: exercises on translatability *at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, which interchanged and travelled to Trondheim and Kristiansand, both in Norway (2011-12). Curated *A Radically Condensed History of Post-Industrial Life LADO A/LADO B*, an exhibition in LP format for the “Impossible Show” at El Spacio, Madrid (2010-11). Curated *Lights Out, *the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound – MIS (2008/São Paulo). She’s been publishing widely in national and international art publications, and taught workshops on art writing and curatorial practices throughout Brazil.  Published her first book, co-authored with Fabio Morais, titled *ARTE E MUNDO APÓS A CRISE DAS UTOPIAS, assim mesmo, em CAIXA ALTA e sem notas de roda-pé *(Florianópolis: Par(ent)esis Art Book Publisher, 2010)
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Anne Szefer Karlsen
Anne Szefer KarlsenNorway (2008-14). In addition to series of exhibitions and seminars for the Hordaland Art Centre, as well as further developing its residency programme, she has curated exhibitions for other art spaces and is teaching/lecturing in formal and informal education. Exhibitions curated and publication projects edited by Szefer Karlsen will generally host an international roster of artists and other contributors. Szefer Karlsen is curator for Skulpturbiennalen 2015 (The Sculpture Biennale 2015), and was curator for Lofoten International Art Festival – LIAF 2013 (with Bassam el Baroni and Eva González-Sancho) titled Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?, September 2013 and created the project The Transmitter Show – Words At a Distance; 10 radio plays by artists and writers published in book form and recorded for radio, with philosopher and writer Aaron Schuster for Performa 13. She acted as Associate Curator for Biennale Bénin 2012 (Artistic Director Abdellah Karroum). She is series editor for Dublett and has edited Collected art criticisms by Erlend Hammer (Ctrl+Z Publishing, 2008), co-edited Lokalisert/Localised with Arne Skaug Olsen and Morten Kvamme (Ctrl+Z Publishing, 2009) and Self-Organised with Stine Hebert (Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre 2013). She has conceived of several seminars and lecture series, and her interests are in artistic and curatorial collaborations as well as developing the language that surrounds art productionsof today, linguistically, spatially and structurally. She has taken on a number of positions of trust within the Norwegian art context and is increasingly invited to speak on contemporary art at home as well as internationally.

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Bik van der Pol

Bik van der Pol
Proposition for reclaiming a space
This seminar concerns the ability and responsibility of artists to be in charge of their own ‘context’, in terms of both production and presentation. The broader aim concerns the urgent question if and where art may be of service in producing a public sphere, also in the political sense of that term. Our hypothesis is that the increasing privatisation of public property, as well as the increasing use of private date for public ‘good’ under neoliberalist developments has lead to the loss of a somehow meaningful public space.
Our concern is that if this loss coincides with the loss of the position of the artwork in the eye of the public, how then can art as public space be disclosed-or somehow be useful- for its political potential. In a world where the value of art is challenged, it is timely to reinvest in its place in society. For a society to be, encounters have to happen, and in order to experience the potentiality of space to become public, its conditions have to be created to prepare the ground for an encounter to occur.
We embrace the qualities intrinsic to artistic practice, as a means to disclose – make public – what is at stake in public space. The issue of public space has long been articulated in close connection to democracy, and many theorists have argued that when democracy is under threat, so is public space. The discussion of public issues is therefore not exclusively of this time, but all the more relevant in light of the current increase of private ownership and privatization of public space.
With the term ‘public space’ we refer to any site of potential conflict over rights, information, relations, and objects – a space that requires articulation, so that a community can be formed, called to order, and enter the order of the political. ‘Publicness’ does not manifest itself in spatial matters only. In fact, recent debates over forms of common property such as knowledge and culture show that public space is to be understood in the broadest terms possible – as that which holds the fabric of experience-as-community together. Threatened by forms or acts of exclusion, privileged access, and disinformation, these sites of public property are just as precarious as natural resources, and need to be rearticulated time and again. However, if the economic paradigm forces us to retreat from the realm of publicness, then what is the public issue?
The model of the dialogue, understood as a constant negotiation between citizens in any form, will be investigated on its potential to establish and articulate collective space.

Bik Van der Pol work collectively since 1995. They live and work in Rotterdam.
 Website: www.bikvanderpol.net <http://www.bikvanderpol.net/>
Bik Van der Pol explore the potential of art to produce and transmit knowledge. Their working method is based on co-operation and research methods of how to activate situations as to create a platform for various kinds of communicative activities.

solo shows and projects (selection):
 Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sudbury, Canada (2012);
 Accumulate, Collect, Show, new work for Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London; Musagetes Foundation, Sudbury (2011)
 Are you really sure a floor can’t also be a ceiling? ENEL Award 2010, MACRO museum, Rome (2010)
 It isn’t what it used to be and will never be again, CCA Glasgow (2009)
 I’ve got something in my eye, Marie Louise Hessel Museum/CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Plug In 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, 2, 3, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2008)
 Issuefighters, INSA Art Space, Seoul (2007). Workshopproject and publication (entitled +82, appeared feb.2007); Fly Me To The Moon, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2007)
 Secession, Vienna (2005)
 Nomads in Residence/No.19, a mobile workspace for artists, Utrecht (2003, with Korteknie Stuhlmacher architects)
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Jorge Menna Barreto

Jorge Menna Barreto
Food activism, agroecology and site-specific practices are among the issues to be discussed and practiced in a colaborative and imersive 7-day workshop in the country side of Rio de Janeiro.
 Jorge Menna Barreto – Artist, translator, professor, educator and critic. MFA and PHD in Fine Arts from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Presently doing a post-doctoral research at UDESC on the relationship between agroecology and site-specific practices in art.
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PC1-1

Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
Humanity, person and multiplicity
The seminar will reflect upon the variations and tranformations of the notion of “human” in different onthological refrains, focusing on the problens of concepts such as multiplicity, conexion, neighborhood relationship, limit and becoming. I will present specific cases provenient from ethnographical studies about different societies taken as tradicional and non-Eastern. These cases will be articulated with reflections produced about the hipercapitalist capitalis context. I aim to, in other words, offer elements to the understending of specific configurations of body and person involved in different status of mankind and its respective regimes of creativity and expression.
 Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino has graduated from the Universidade de São Paulo and has his máster and PhD in social ontropology through Museu Nacional/ UFRJ. He researches indian etnology (with emphasis on studies of shamanism and cosmology), oral traditions, translation and anthropology of art. Was Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Art History of Art at the Federal University of São Paulo. He is currently professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of São Paulo, in the field of Anthropology of Expressive Forms. He is the author of “Oniska – poetic shamanism in Amazonia” (São Paulo, Prospect, 2011) and “When the earth stopped talking” – Marubo corners of the mythology (Editora 34, 2013), and numerous articles published in professional journals. In recent years, also published literary texts and works of drama.
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Ricardo Basbaum

Ricardo Basbaum
The production of the artist: conversations and exercises on the production of oneself as an artist
This workshop proposes to raise a collective conversation and discussion about some of the traces and topics that constitute the “image of the contemporary artist” – and also, through a series of written exercises, bring the problem of “how one produces oneself as an artist” as a matter of practice. The departure point is the comprehension that the contemporary system of art is a complex composition of several layers of mediation that needs to be experienced by whoever intends to make a move in such a territory; this is a consequence, by one side, of the 1960s ‘dematerialization’ of the art practice, and, by other, of the so-called ‘globalization’ process typical from the new economic world order which emerged since the 1980s. Among so many different layers of institutional and relational protocols, where can be located the artist and the artwork, subject and object of the sensorial and conceptual experience? The workshop is organized around a pre-prepaired set of problems that encompass some of the aspects involved in the contemporary art practice – from the practitioners’ point of view, specially the artist: the context, the proposition, the group, the historical and critical discourses, the curatorial knowledge, etc. What is generated from this is a conversation about how one produces oneself as an artist in face of the local/global context. For each topic, a specific bibliography is assigned. The dynamics includes the reading and discussion of texts, but also that each of the participants writes in direct relation to each of the themes: the texts are then collectively read and discussed at each meeting. Therefore, writing and reading are meant to be taken as practical exercises on the “production of oneself as contemporary artist” at a specif location and context.
 Ricardo Basbaum (São Paulo, Brazil 1961). Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is an artist and writer, investigating art as an intermediating device and platform for the articulation between sensorial experience, sociability and language. Since the late 1980s, he has been nurturing a vocabulary specific to his work, applying it in a particular way to each new project. His work was recently included at Something in Space Escapes our Attempts at Surveying (Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2014), the 30º São Paulo Biennalle (2012), Garden of Learning (Busan, 2012) and Counter-Production (Generali, Viena, 2012), among other events. Exhibited at documenta 12 (2007). Recent solo-projects include re-projecting (london) (The Showroom, London,2013). An athology of his diagrams was presented at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain (diagrams, 2013). He is the author of Manual do artista-etc (Azougue, 2013) and Além da pureza visual (Zouk, 2007) and contributed to Materialität der Diagramme – Kunst und Theorie (edited by Susanne Leeb, b_books, 2012). Professor at the Instituto de Artes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Worked as Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (2013).
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Christoph Keller

Cristoph Keller

Anarcheology and Futurology of the Tropical Landscape – Hydrology for Artists
The workshop will offer an introduction into a fictitious “Hydrology for Artists”, assembling information and methodologies in the field of climatology, energy supply and demand, as well as an archeology of hydroelectric plants in South-America.

Christoph Keller is based in Berlin. He worked as a hydrologist before becoming and artist. Currently he teaches at the visual art department of the Haute école d’art et de design in Geneva.

In his installations and films frequently resembling experimental configurations he uses the discursive possibilities of art to investigate the themes of science and its utopias. The Cloudbuster-Projects (since 2003) involve reenactments of Wilhelm Reich’s experiments for influencing the atmosphere with orgon energy. In Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (2001) and Archives as Objects as Monuments (2000), Keller focuses upon the archeology of scientific film, the impossibility of objective documentation, and the problem of the archival urge to bring order to comprehensive knowledge.

His works are present in many international exhibitions like the Lyon Biennial (2011), LIAF Lofoten (2011) Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2009), the Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Argentina (2009), the first Berlin Biennial (1998), or the solo-exhibition Observatorium in the Kunstverein Braunschweig (2008). Æther – between cosmology and consciousness (2011) at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris was his first large scale artistic and curatorial-project in an institutional context.
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helmut

Helmut Batista (tutor and lector)
Solvitur ambulando/ It is solved by walking
Is a 10 month workshop with discussions arround questions of acceleration and reduction of production.
Helmut Batista (Rio de Janeiro 1964) studied opera at ESAT/France and worked at the opera of Viena. In 1998 funds CAPACETE, a non profit organization think tank for contemporary investigation. Has produced and organized innumerable talks, presentations, seminars and exhibitions in Brazil and internationally. As an artists, until 1997, he has exhibited at Gallery Schipper, Air de Paris, Massimo de Carlo, Von Senger among others. In 2013 curated an exhibition intitled “CAPACETE” at Portikus in Frankfurt.
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amilcar

Amilcar Packer (tutor and lector)
Guided conversations – compose a mediational space – through clinical and philosophical and poetical perspectives – that tangent the curatorial – excuses to let time go – together – for a few days – contradicting – and insisting – in provisional states – and digesthétics – skin of thinking – ethics of existence.
Amilcar Packer was born in Santiago de Chile in 1974 and moved to Brazil in 1982. Degree in Philosophy by the University of São Paulo, is finishing a Master in Clinical Psychology by the Center for the Study of Subjectivity of the PUC São Paulo. Packer develops a practice that reconfigures the semantic fields of objects, architectures and human bodies through actions and interventions, photographies, videos, installations, and presentations in various formats establishing relational fields, which seek to subvert the normative grammars of social spaces and historical mechanisms of power. Its activities aim to neutralize dominant discourses, and contribute to uninstall oppression devices that are crystallized in the cultural distribution of the sensible – with its correlate segregation of space -; in the sedimentation of power structures – and its naturalization in language; and in social and socializing behavioral standards – and its politics of homogenization of subjectivities.
Packer collaborates regularly with artist-run and autonomous intiatives such as Como_clube, Casa do Povo and CAPACETE, where, between the years of 2011 and 2013, he co-directed the international artistic research residency program. Taking the arts as a less hierarchical activity and privileged field for developping ethical experimentations, his activities are extended to discursive formats, classes and workshops, meetings and conversations, lunches and tours that establish spaces and provisional states for collective dynamics, where predominate building horizontality, critical debate, mutual learning and coexistence. In recent years, he participated in educational programs as Städelschule, Frankfurt , Germany, 2013; PIESP – Porgrama Independente da Escola São Paulo, 2013; Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013; History Matter CCA – Lagos, Nigeria in 2012; Universidade de Verão, Rio de Janeiro, 2012 and 2013; New Choreographers, CCSP, 2010; the Harbor School, Beta Local in San Juan , Puerto Rico , in 2011; On Reason and Emotion, Sydney Biennial 2004 educational programs – Hobart School of the Arts, Launceston School of the Arts, Tasmania, Autrália, 2004.
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manuela

Manuela Moscos (tutor)
Moscoso is a curator that mostly emphasizes speculative thinking and actions in order to privilege imagination. Weather organizing exhibitions, commissioning or initiating projects, she sees collaboration intrinsic to her practice. Moscoso was the adjunct curator of la12 Bienal de Cuenca Ecuador, and has recently curated  Martha Araújo: Para um corpo pleno de vazios at Galeria Jaqueline Martins em São Paulo; Yael Davis: a reading that writes an script in the Museo de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro; Fisicisimos, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires; Quarter System, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona; The Queens Biennale in the Queens Museum, New York; or Before Everything in CA2M, Madrid among other exhibitions. She is now developing a long term research project for Casa del Alabado Precolombian Art in Quito involving contemporary art practices, the first artist to respond to the collection are Asier Mendizabal and Osías Yanov. Since 2010, together with Sarah Demeuse is Rivet, a curatorial office investigating notions of deployment, circulation, exercise, and resonance. Their research has materialized in projects in New York, Vitoria-Spain, Los Angeles, Ghent or Beirut. Their last project is The Wilson Exercises about staying fit while working together with Marc Vives and Anna Craycroft and still following individual interest. It is a way of paying close attention to process while developing a multifaceted project–comprising personal conversations, a summer school in Stavangers, conference calls, two exhibitions in Los Angeles and Barcelona, and one publication designed by Project Project New York — between the two artists and a curatorial duo. Rivet has recently published “Thinking about it” with Archive Books and is preparing the first monograph of artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané with designer Manuel Reader.
Over the last years she has talked and give workshops at Bulegoa in Bilbao the Worlds Biennale Forum in Sao Paulo, ArtBO in Colombia, Open Forum in Buenos Aires, HKW Synapse in Berlin, No Mínimo in Guayaquil, Charlas Parásicas in Lima, Sitac XI México DF or Videobrasil Sao Paulo, among others. Together with Amilcar Packer developed the one year curatorial program Maquina de Escrever centered in writing as an tool for though production. Moscoso holds an MA from Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design.


FAQ

 

We will answer frequent questions on this page

What is the real cost for the participant?
The total cost of the program is USD 17.000 (on todays rate april 2014). For each participant, depending from which country he or she is, we will have a specific solution for the grant that covers 85% of the total cost (grant = USD 15.000). The USD 2.400 must be paid by the participant in two installment. It is up to the participant, together with the team of CAPACETE, to work to find funding to cover the 85% (USD 15.000). After the selection process we will start fundraising with the selected candidates. Each case will be treated separately. For those candidates that have no option to find funding, due to lack of institution in their home country for example, CAPACETE is offering 2 to 3 grants of 85% of the total cost (USD 15.000). It is important to notice that the remaining USD 2.400 must still be contributed by the selected candidate even if he or she has no possibility of finding funding for these costs. As written in the program, we will offer payed work for these situations.

We also advice that the cost of Visas can vary from 40 to 60 USD for the first process (while still in your home country when applying to the visa at the Brazillian embassy) and another 100 USD while arriving in Brazil as for local bureaucracy work at the federal police. Laws have been changing quiet a lot and therefor we advice that these numbers can vary.

Is there an age limit for applying?
No, we accept application by all ages. It is important to notice that this program was designed for candidates in their beginning of their career. Individuals that already have a certain focus in their work and are searching to contribute to this program in a collective sense.

How do the working possibilities work? How many hours? How much is payed?
After the selection process and together with the selected candidate we will discuss whom it might interest to work as an internship for an artist (please see the list of participating artist in the program link). These internships will have different formats and are designed according to the needs of the artists or organization that are offering these possibilities and the need of our selected candidates specific qualities (graphic design, manual work, translation etc.). Each case will be treated individually. The internships will vary from 10 to 20 hours weekly and designed according to the necessities of both partners. The per/hour value of the payment is discussed individually with each professional and CAPACETE has no insight into this. It is important to understand that not everybody can have such a situation as this depends very much on the matching situation wich is unpredictable. We also advice that such a work may only start in April 2016 as the participants needs time to adapt to local conditions and needs time to meet the professional and see what can be done practically. We can not garanteed that all participants will find a place.

Is the rent included in the program?
Rents are not included in the program and it is up to the participant to find his or her solution. The CAPACETE team will help to find solutions. At this very moment we have 4 rooms in a generous and comfortable apartment for disposal with a monthly rent of about USD 500 (all included: internet, water, electricity etc.). These rooms will be at the disposal of the selected candidates for those that may want and need to share a common place. After the selection process e will help to find other solutions for individual or collective rents. For 2015 we have collaborated with another artists that has a beautiful house in the neighborhoods of Cosme Velho with 5 rooms and we have therefor had all our participants hosted in good conditions with same price USD 500 all included. This situation might not be here in 2016, but we will do our best to help each of our candidate. It is important to notice that Rio has turned into an expensive renting city, like most big capitals in the world (now for the upcoming Olympics in 2016), meaning that expectation by the renting person must be much more flexible. CAPACETE is very conscious about this problem and we are already working to have different solutions on hand, but we have to underline, that CAPACETE can not be responsible to find a perfect and equal solution for each selected candidate.

When and where shall the selected participant arrive?
Once we have the list of the selected participants we will organize housing and other bureaucracies (funding and visa etc.). In the case of the Brazilian participant that might choose to find his own housing we advice to be here right after Carnaval 2015. The exact dates will be briefly announced after the selection process. It is very possible that the 2016 program starts in Lima/Peru or another capital of a south american country. This will be decided together with the selected candidates (probably around September 2015).

Is it possible to participate in the seminars separately?
No. We expect that all participant attend most seminars and talks of the program., beside case of external exhibition or other personal related issues. All collaborators will have an talk open to the general public.

In which language are the seminars?
Most seminars will be in English but we highly recommend that the participant comes with a basic knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish. We will organize Portuguese classes for the interested participants with a small contribution. We hope that all participant come out of the program speaking basic Portuguese. For this year of 2015 we have 7 participants taking portugues class in a collective way (7 USD per head per 1 and a half hour).

Is it possible to work during the program?
The seminars will happen in different hours of the day and are still beeing elaborated by our team and the collaborators. We will try to adapt the best to the participants agenda. Nevertheless this is a full program requiring that all participants are fully focused in participating in most offered programs. All workshops will have a duration of around 20 hours per week making it almost impossible to have another fix full time job besides attending this program (this is more for a local resident). Otherwise we are looking forward to have all particpant working on other jobs, projects etc. as much as possible. We underline that the offered internships are already part of that strategy while offering an economical solution.

What are these 8 hours dedication to the program?
This program was designed to have a good, reasonable prices and collective spirit. To achieve this we think that active participation is important meaning working at the library (which will be open for the general public, organizing events (fundraising etc.), maintenance of the webpage, translation of texts etc. The 8 hours per week, depending on the group, may be completely different from this first stipulation. We will discuss this problem in a collective from once the program starts.


Will the participant have an individual studio?

CAPACETE in its 16 years of existence and more than 300 professionals, has never had individual studios. We are not a studio focused program. CAPACETE has a house which is its head quarter and where we will arrange tables according to the need of the collectivity and also individual needs. CAPACETE is focused on the collective process. The participants private house/room should fulfill these specific individual needs.

 

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Perguntas frequentes

Qual o custo do programa 2017 para cada participante?

O custo total do program é o custo de transporte até Athenas e os custos locais menos a moradia que sera oferecida. O custo de vida em Athenas é menor que na cidade do Rio de Janeiro ou em São Paulo. Acreditamos que com algo em trono de 300 a 500 euros.

Existe uma idade mínima ou máxima para se inscrever?
Não, aceitamos inscrições de candidatos de todas as idades. O importante é ressalatar que estamos focando nosso porgrama para participantes em ínicio de carreira. Individuos que já tenham algum processo elaborado de trabalhar e buscam esta possibilidade de se aprimorar e contribuir de maneira coletiva.

A hospedagem está incluída no programa?
A hospedagem está incluida no programa e neste momento iremos oferecer quartos compratidos. Ao longo deste ano iremos trabalhar para conseguir mais fundos para que cada participante tenha seu próprio quarto.

Quando devem chegar os participantes?
A data deve ser em torno do ínicio de março 2017

Qual o custo do visto?
Uma vez selecionados os participantes estrangeiros deverão procurar a embaixada ou consulado brasileiro mais perto (normalmente nas capitais) para ver quais documentos são necessários. A questão do visto é um porblema de constantes mudanças uma vez que respondem a lógicas políticas e podem ser muito diferentes para cada país em questão. O visto pode levar 2 meses para serem preparados e o custo gira em torno de 150 Reais no Brasil (oficialização dos papeis para pedir o visto), mais 100 Euros nos países em questão, e finalmente outros 230 Reais de custos de imigração uma vez que o participante estiver no Brasil onde precisa se registrar na Policia Federal. Estes valores estão sujeitos a mudanças!

Os seminários serão em que língua?
Os seminários serão em lingua inglesa. É indispensável uma razoável compreensão da língua inglesa para participar deste programa. Lembramos que iremos ter muitas palestras, e visitas de outros profissionais estrangeiros que terão as mesmas exigências.

É possível trabalhar durante o ano?
Os seminários ocorrerão em horários diferentes e ainda serão elaborados com os seminaristas e iremos adaptar ao máximo possível às exigências dos participantes. Visto que ao menos 8 participantes não serão da cidade de Athenas, e muitos dos seminaristas também não vivem na cidade e terão carga horária bastante exigente (média de 20 horas por seminário), acreditamos que caberá ao participante se ajustar as exigências da programação. Sublinhamos que o visto que receberemos não permite trabalho legalizado.

As horas exigidas pelo programa consistem em que?
Para o bom funcionamento, preços módicos e um espírito coletivo, o CAPACETE exige participação efetiva do candidatos de forma prática: manutenção da biblioteca que terá horário de abertura ao público, organização dos eventos, manutenção do site, tradução de textos etc. Esta carga horária de 8 horas semanais pode, dependendo do grupo, ter uma exigência completamente diferente desta estipulação inicial. Iremos debater esta problemática com os candidatos selecionados.

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Qual o custo do programa 2016 para cada participante?
O custo total do programa é de do valor total de R$ 40.000,00. Para cada participante, dependendo do seu país de origem, haverá uma solução específica de bolsa que cobrirá 85% do valor anual total do programa por participante (bolsa = R$ 34.000,00). R$ 6.000,00 deverão ser pagos pelos participantes. Caberá aos candidatos, junto com a equipe do CAPACETE, trabalhar para conseguir os fundos que irão cobrir os 85% (R$ 34.000,00). Após a seleção dos finalistas, daremos inicio à fase de captação, jutno com os selecionados. Os casos serão analisados e tratados individualmente. Para candidatos que não possuam qualquer possibilidade de financiamento junto a seus países de origem, o CAPACETE irá disponibilizar 2 a 3 bolsas referentes a 85% do valor total do programa. Vale ressaltar que neste caso também, caberá aos candidatos, com ou sem bolsa, contribuir com o valor de R$ 6.000,00, que deverá ser pago em 2 vezes; respectivamente no início do programa, em março, e em julho de 2015.

Existe uma idade mínima ou máxima para se inscrever?
Não, aceitamos inscrições de candidatos de todas as idades. O importante é ressalatar que estamos focando nosso porgrama para participantes em ínicio de carreira. Individuos que já tenham algum processo elaborado de trabalhar e buscam esta possibilidade de se aprimorar e contribuir de maneira coletiva.

Como funcionam as oportunidades de trabalho? Qual a carga horária? Quais os valores de remuneração?
Após a seleção, iremos analisar e discutir com os finalistas que estiverem interessados em fazer um estágio remunerado, junto a profissionais na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (veja lista dos nossos colaboradores de 2015 no programa). Estes estágios terão formas variadas, dependendo da necessidade dos profissionais envolvidos em oferecer estas vagas, e das capacidades de cada participante do programa (suas qualidades específicas; design gráfico, tradução, habilidades manuais etc.). Os casos serão analisados e tratados individualmente. Os estágios poderão ter de 10 s 20 horas semanais, ou outras equações, dependendo das necessidades dos profissionais e participantes envolvidos. O valor da remuneração serão elaboradores com cada profissional envolvido e independe do programa do CAPACETE. Sublinhamos que estes estágios se iniciam somente no més de abril uma vez que existe o més de adaptação do participante selecionado na cidade do Rio de Janeiro.

A hospedagem está incluída no programa?
A hospedagem não está incluida no programa e cabe a cada participante resolver esta equação. A equipe do CAPACETE irá, na medida do possível, ajudar a resolver esta questão. Neste momento, o CAPACETE tem à disposição 4 quartos, em um apartamento generoso no bairro da Gloria, com um preço mensal de R$ 1.500,00 por quarto, com tudo incluído (eletricidade, gas, internet etc.). Estes quartos serão postos à disposição para os interessados neste tipo de equação coletiva. Em 2015 conseguimos também uma colaboração com um artista local que se dispos a alugar sua casa com 5 quartas no bairro do Cosme Velho; portanto todos nossos participantes do programa 2015 foram confortavelmente hospedados. Esta equação, porém, esta sujeito a revisão para 2016. Iremos, após consulta dos candidatos finalistas, procurar outras soluções individuais ou coletivas referentes a moradia. É importante ressaltar que a moradia, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, vem se tornando um problema cada vez mais agudo, exigindo maior flexibilidade dos inquilinos e forçando novas formas de convivência. Ciente deste problema, o CAPACETE, investirá esforços para conseguir solucionar da melhor maneira possível este ponto, ressaltando porém, que não pode se responsabilizar por achar uma solução perfeita e igualitária para todos os participantes selecionados.

Quando devem chegar os participantes?
Uma vez selecionados os participantes, iremos organizar as moradias e as respectivas burocracias (financiamento, vistos etc.). Caso um candidato brasileiro preferir buscar sua próprio hospedagem, aconselhamos que esteja aqui logo após o carnaval de 2015. As datas exatas do programa serão anunciados mais adiante no ano.

Qual o custo do visto?
Uma vez selecionados os participantes estrangeiros deverão procurar a embaixada ou consulado brasileiro mais perto (normalmente nas capitais) para ver quais documentos são necessários. A questão do visto é um porblema de constantes mudanças uma vez que respondem a lógicas políticas e podem ser muito diferentes para cada país em questão. O visto pode levar 2 meses para serem preparados e o custo gira em torno de 150 Reais no Brasil (oficialização dos papeis para pedir o visto), mais 100 Euros nos países em questão, e finalmente outros 230 Reais de custos de imigração uma vez que o participante estiver no Brasil onde precisa se registrar na Policia Federal. Estes valores estão sujeitos a mudanças!

É possível participar dos seminários separadamente?

Não. Exigimos dos candidatos participação em todas as oficinas, a não ser por razões de ordem maior e/ou profissional (exposição ou outras formas de trabalho). Todos os seminaristas irão realizar uma fala aberta ao público.

Os seminários serão em que língua?
Os seminários serão em lingua inglesa. É indispensável uma razoável compreensão da língua inglesa para participar deste programa. Lembramos que iremos ter muitas palestras, e visitas de outros profissionais estrangeiros que terão as mesmas exigências.

É possível trabalhar durante o ano?
Os seminários ocorrerão em horários diferentes e ainda serão elaborados com os seminaristas e iremos adaptar ao máximo possível às exigências dos participantes. Visto que ao menos 8 participantes não serão da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e muitos dos seminaristas também não vivem na cidade e terão carga horária bastante exigente (média de 20 horas por seminário), acreditamos que caberá ao participante, carioca neste caso, se ajustar as exigências da programação. Por conclusão, os candidatos que tenham um emprego fixo, terão problemas reais de adaptação as exigências do programa. Por outro lado, outros trabalhos ou projetos com carga horária mais flexíveis, são muito bem vindos. Iremos discutir isto com os finalistas na medida que isto possa se tornar um dilema.

As 8 horas exigidas pelo programa consistem em que?
Para o bom funcionamento, preços módicos e um espírito coletivo, o CAPACETE exige participação efetiva do candidatos de forma prática: manutenção da biblioteca que terá horário de abertura ao público, organização dos eventos, manutenção do site, tradução de textos etc. Esta carga horária de 8 horas semanais pode, dependendo do grupo, ter uma exigência completamente diferente desta estipulação inicial. Iremos debater esta problemática com os candidatos selecionados.

Teremos um estudio individual para trabalhar?
O CAPECETE dispõe de uma sede/casa no bairro da Gloria onde funciona a biblioteca e onde irão acontecer a maior parte dos programas (seminários, oficinas, falas, encontros, comidas etc.). A casa/sede tem espaços flexiveis, e iremos adaptá-los às necessidades coletivas (mesas etc.). Não teremos espaços que atendam exigências individuais. O programa CAPACETE esta focado no pensar coletivo e as ações daí oriundas.

 

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Participantes do programa de 1 ano

O CAPACETE opera no nível do para-acadêmico e as inscrições para o programa são gratuitas e abertas para candidatos de qualquer idade, de todo o mundo, e que atuam na área da cultura. No entanto, a prioridade do programa é para pesquisadores em início de carreira. Não é imperativo que os candidatos possuam diploma universitário para sua elegibilidade, mas espera-se que o candidato tenha dedicação consistente em relação a sua própria investigação. Os candidatos podem ter uma formação educacional ou interesse em diferentes disciplinas (antropologia, dança, etc.), no entanto, é importante que os candidatos entendam as diretrizes do programa. Note-se que este programa herda e transforma 16 anos de atividades do CAPACETE Entretenimento. Assim, a fim de que se tenha uma melhor compreensão do CAPACETE, recomendamos olharem o documento em anexo, a fim de entender as especificidades deste cenário e contexto.

O CAPACETE reúne profissionais de diferentes formações e que estão totalmente investidos em sua prática. Portanto, será exigido que o participante conceda dedicação integral às atividades globais do programa .

Os participantes do programa de 1 ano em 2017 em Athenas são:

Jari Malta (Uruguai)

Sol Brado (Argentina)

Gris Garcia (México)

Raul Hott (Chile)

Eliana Otta (Peru)

Michelle Mattiuzzi (Bahia / Brasil)

Jota Mombaça (Natal / Bahia)

Gian Spina (São Paulo / Brasil)

Fabiana Faleiros (Porto Alegre / Brasil)

Rodrigo Andreolli (São Paulo / Brasil)

Nikos Doulas (Grécia)

Vassiliki Sifostratoudake (Grécia)

Os participantes do programa de curta diração (3 ou 6 meses) no Rio de Janeiro em 2017 são:

Marie Homer Westh (Dinamarca)

Cinia Guedes (Bahia / Brasil)

Gil&Moti (Isreal/Holanda)

Fotini Gouseti (Grécia)

Kalliopim Alliopim Tsipni (Grécia)

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Os participantes do programade 1 ano em 2016 foram:

Anna Bak (Dinamarca)
Aurélia Defrance (França)
Caetano Maacumba (Brasil)
Camilla Rocha Campos (Brasil)
Ian Erikson-Kery (E.U.A.)
Jonas Lund (Suécia)
Julia Retz (Brasil)
Marilia Loureiro (Brasil)
soJin chun (Korea/Canadá)
Soledad Leon (Chile)
Tali Serruya (Argentina)
Thora Doven Balke (Noruega)

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Os participantes do programa de 1 ano em 2015 foram:

Caroline Valansi (Brasil),
Daniel Jablonski (Brasil),
Giseli Vasconcelos (Brasil),
Lucas Sargentelli (Brasil),
Joen Vedel (Dinamarca),
Adeline Lepine (França),
Oliver Bulas (Alemanha),
Tanja Baudoin (Holanda),
Félix Luna (México),
Andrew de Freitas (Nova Zelândia),
Asia Komarova (Russia),
Refilwe N Nkomo (Africa do Sul),
Maricruz Alarcon (Chile)


CAPACETE

CAPACETE is a new one-year program in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 14 international participants dedicated to research and practice in the arts and critical thought. It has started its first edition in March 2015. Thought is action.
CAPACETE that stimulates collaboration, dialogue and discussion with other artists and curators or other cultural agents of different disciplines.


Esteban Alvarez

Buenos Aires, 1966. Artist and curator graduated from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón, BA(1992), Master of Middlesex University (London,2000). Artist in Residence at Gasworks (London,2000), participated in Hwei-Lann Workshop (Taiwan,2003). He received awards including: 2 First Prize, Second Biennial of Printmaking(Colombia,1998), Awards: British Council(1999), FNA(2002), Fundación Antorchas(2003) & Pollock-Krasner(NY, 2004). Curated exhibitions: A finger on the River, CCEBA(BA,2006). Participated in exhibitions such as: Biennial of the End of the World (Ushuaia,2009); Variation Time (Munich, 2009); Alucine Video Festival (Toronto,2009); SAR07 Macro (Rosario, 2007) Levity (NY,2007); ACC Gallerie (Germany,2006), Art and Engagement (Spain,2005), PR04 (Puerto Rico,2004), False Impressions (England, 2003) Contemporary Art Biennial das Americas (Fortress,2004); Contemporáneo1 Malba (BA,2002) Unterwegs nach Timbuktu (Berlin,2002) Solo Exhibition: Gallery-UECLAA Essex (Colchester,2000).