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Artist Maria Thereza Alves On Decolonization and 'Seeds of Change'
Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, whose work feels particularly urgent in the current environment we find ourselves in. Her research-based, highly poetic, and astonishingly courageous practice continuously addresses ecological and social issues for the betterment of humanity. In this genuine and intimate conversation, Alves discusses her childhood experiences that formed her artistic consciousness, how the global cultural scene needs to avoid categorisations, and how her body of work gives witness to silenced histories, creating spaces of agency for oppressed and discriminated cultures, ongoing environmental emergencies, and the never-ending crisis of cultural authority.
About the Speaker: Maria Thereza Alves is a Brazilian artist and activist living in Europe. Alves’s oeuvre comprises equally political texts, artist’s texts, videos, mixed media installations, drawings, photographs, performances, in situ works, talks and documentations of important moments in history. Since the early 1970s, both the devastating effects of Portuguese imperialism on the indigenous peoples of her native Brazil and the impact of the Spanish conquest in the Americas, has been central to her practice. Through her creative and intelligent body of work Alves has addressed concepts that question social circumstances, researching social and cultural phenomena. In 2017, she was awarded the Vera List Prize. Selected exhibitions include solo shows at IAC - Institut d’Art Contemporain (Villeurbanne), Parsons - The New School of Design (New York), CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), Musée d’Histoire de Nantes - Château des Ducs de Bretagne, and group shows at Manifesta 7 (Trento), Serpentine Gallery (London), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), Bétonsalon (Paris), Crac Alsace, Jewish Museum (Berlin), 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, amongst others.
Hosts: Elizabeth Zhivkova and Farah Piriye
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Episode Summary: In this episode we meet Brazilian artist Maria Thereza Alves, whose work feels particularly urgent in the current environment we find ourselves in. Her research-based, highly poetic, and astonishingly courageous practice continuously addresses ecological and social issues for the betterment of humanity. In this genuine and intimate conversation, Alves discusses her childhood experiences that formed her artistic consciousness, how the global cultural scene needs to avoid categorisations, and how her body of work gives witness to silenced histories, creating spaces of agency for oppressed and discriminated cultures, ongoing environmental emergencies, and the never-ending crisis of cultural authority.
About the Speaker: Maria Thereza Alves is a Brazilian artist and activist living in Europe. Alves’s oeuvre comprises equally political texts, artist’s texts, videos, mixed media installations, drawings, photographs, performances, in situ works, talks and documentations of important moments in history. Since the early 1970s, both the devastating effects of Portuguese imperialism on the indigenous peoples of her native Brazil and the impact of the Spanish conquest in the Americas, has been central to her practice. Through her creative and intelligent body of work Alves has addressed concepts that question social circumstances, researching social and cultural phenomena. In 2017, she was awarded the Vera List Prize. Selected exhibitions include solo shows at IAC - Institut d’Art Contemporain (Villeurbanne), Parsons - The New School of Design (New York), CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville), Musée d’Histoire de Nantes - Château des Ducs de Bretagne, and group shows at Manifesta 7 (Trento), Serpentine Gallery (London), (d)OCUMENTA 13 (Kassel), Bétonsalon (Paris), Crac Alsace, Jewish Museum (Berlin), 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, amongst others.
Hosts: Elizabeth Zhivkova and Farah Piriye
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For sponsorship enquiries, comments, ideas and collaborations, email us at [email protected]