Brazil and The Netherlands have a long lasting cultural relationship. Last year 11 Brazilian cultural experts were asked to 'map out' the Brazilian cultural field, to help define priorities for cultural cooperation between the two countries. The results are published in the Cultural Mapping of Brazil and were presented in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The presentation of the Cultural Mapping of Brazil was also the kick-off of a visit of Dutch cultural experts to Brazil, with the general purpose of raising enthusiasm for intensifying the cultural relations between Brazil and The Netherlands. Read more...
Documentary Tips
The Naked Architecture is an interview to the well-know Brazilian architect, 101 years old Oscar Niemeyer; with beautiful images of his country and his works around the world. Look at the trailer here.
Want to know more? Enjoy this Online documentary about the works of Oscar Niemeyer.
Book Tips
The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia by James Holston. The utopian design and organization of Brasília, the modernist new capital of Brazil, were meant to transform Brazilian society. In this sophisticated, pioneering study of Brasília from its inception in 1957 to the present, James Holston analyzes this attempt to change society by building a new kind of city and the ways in which the paradoxes of constructing an imagined future subvert its utopian premises.
Richly illustrated full-colour publication in Dutch/English. The volume presents a picture of the diversity of Brazilian culture. Brazil Contemporary. Architecture, Visual Art, Visual Culture. authors: Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond, Bregje van Woensel, Ineke Holtwijk, Luciano Figueredo. Read more...
Film Tips
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol by Glauber Rocha. Fictionalized account of the adventures of hired gunman Antonio das Mortes, set against the real life last days of rural banditism.
Cidade de Deus. Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Five cross-cuts of São Paulo
Scenes of the city and its inhabitants, filmed by students of the São Paulo film school, comprise the heart of the exhibition. Surrounded by different video screens, visitors are plunged into the almost unimaginably fast-paced life of the city; tumultuous but irresistibly exciting. The NAi presents five cross-cuts of São Paulo; from the heart of the city to the periphery. Read more.... This presentation is part of Brazil Contemporary
Trans Artists monthly A-I-R mail
no. 25 / Brazil
FAAP
Duration: 2 - 6 months
Discipline: Visual Arts
Targetgroup: International
FAAP Artistic residence program offers temporary housing to artists from overseas or outside São Paulo. There are 10 studio units (69m2 or 79m2) fully refurbished with private facilities.
FAAP is located at Praça do Patriarca in São Paulo. (photograph from the early '30s)
Videobrasil
Discipline: Media Art
Targetgroup: International
Associação Cultural Videobrasil (locally ACV) is a public interest organization dedicated to fostering, disseminating, and mapping out electronic art from the southern circuit. The Videobrasil residency programe systematizes the action of Associação Cultural Videobrasil in the field of artistic residencies.
Road by CAPACETE is an interdisciplinary project that is taking place in different countries over the course of several years. It began in 2004 when Brazilian artists Ducha and Helmut Batista set out on a road trip from Rio de Janeiro to Santiago de Chile to develop the project entitled Diários de Motocicletas e Aquarelas (Motorcycles Diaries and Watercolors), intended to be seen as a critical comment upon Walter Salles' film The Motorcycles Diaries (an adaptation of the diaries of Che Guevara).
During the residency in Brazil Jane Ingram Allen worked with native plants to explore new papermaking fibers and techniques and created a series of Brazil site maps and an outdoor installation based on Brazilian birds. Jane worked with youth from Itaparica to teach them papermaking and created a collaborative installation with the youth which was exhibited in the town library. The youth also used their handmade paper to create their own art works. An exhibition of the young artists' work and work made by Jane during her residency was held at Quinta Pitanga. Read more...
Iberê Camargo Foundation Residency (ICF)
For Brazilian artists
In its programme of cultural activities the Iberê Camargo Foundation organises the annual Iberê Camargo Grant, with the aim of offering Brazilian artists a three-month foreign residency in important visual arts institutions. New partnerships are organised each year, offering artists new destinations. Artists are chosen from throughout Brazil by open competition in which each artist writes a specific project. Selection is carried out by a panel of nationally representative artists and curators who chose the artists for the residency, ten artists who will be highlighted in the Digital Magazine on the Foundations website, and one artist to take part in the Print Studio Guest Artist Project.
Green Infrastructure
This competition challenges students of landscape architecture to explore the IFLA World Congress in Brazil theme of sustainability in landscape through new visions for the future. The competition invites submissions from teams of undergraduated students in Landscape Architecture university programs or allied disciplines.The theme that the competition entries must respond to is Green infrastructure: landscape, infrastructure and people for tomorrow.
(l) Curitiba - The Green Capital of Brazil with large squares, and huge green areas in the city center, boulevards and streets with flowers. (r) Public garden project in São Paulo, reducing hunger and joblessness by means of urban agriculture.
What: design competition
Award:Han Prize for Landscape Architecture of $3.500
Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn embarked on a journey to bring outrageous works of art to unexpected places, starting with painting enormous murals in the slums of Brazil together with the local youth. See all about the project here.
Acervo Mariposa
Artist-in-residence programs aren't the only opportunities for artists to share experience and knowledge with other artists from abroad. Acervo Mariposa is an non-profit dance specialized video-library that manages free access to digital dance videos for an international audience. It's mail objective is to make the existing knowledge in dance available.
How to get involved? Donate a dance video (records of rehearsal, presentation, interview ) to the website
You can: access other artists' videos, share knowledge, research and spread new ways of dancing.
