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Territory, body, earth. These are concepts used by the Maya-Xinca activist Lorena Cabnal, whose activism has inspired people outside the Abya Yala to advance feminism that is communitarian and differs from the more traditional “white” feminism. Her concept of “acuerpamiento” underlined the workshop and installation “Corpas que Voam” held in São Paulo in September 2023,… Continuar lendo Corpas Que Voam

Freedom through Vulnerability “It (art) brings down something deeper of… and something more authentic that has to do with you and with the present, and where you can open more subtle places of yourself, and from there create, from that vulnerability.”   Ana Kavalis, Interview São Paulo August 2023 In the above statement, Ana Kavalis, a… Continuar lendo CORPO MIGRANTE, um Corpo Ressonante –

Front picture by Vanessa Haines Matos. www.climatenatureemergency.org *** Art enables us to connect different realities together. This capacity of art is what makes it also spiritual, transcending into other levels of experience, thereby enabling a transformation.  A performance dancer mediates between worlds. The work of connecting different realities is similar to that of a healer.… Continuar lendo The performance dancer as a Healer of the Society

I met Mr X in Finland in the aftermath of my fellowship in Urban Narratives of Conviviality and Inequality. When he learned that I had just spent three months in São Paulo on a project examining art and activism, he went to his office and came back with the picture accompanying this blog post. He… Continuar lendo Cultivating Art