João Paulo Quintella

© Personal archive Quintella holds a Master’s degree in contemporary artistic processes from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is part of the research team of the Casa França-Brasil. Curator of several projects, among which are "Beyond Land", made by the independent space Átomos, and "Remanso", Funarte Award for Contemporary Art 2015. Contributor to the magazine SeLect and Edições Sesc São Paulo, he has dedicated himself to study the relations between art, architecture and experience by inverting the expressive modes of these disciplines and crossing their languages.

Shana Marques Prado dos Santos

© Personal archive Lawyer and coordinator of the project Memory, Truth and Justice at the Institute for Religious Studies (ISER) with a Master’s degree in Human Rights, Society and Art from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a member of the Human Rights Laboratory at this university, she has worked on issues such as military dictatorships, international law and multiculturalism. Marques has been a researcher for the National Truth Commission as well as a consultant to the Amnesty Commission of the Latin American Network for Transitional Justice in the treatment of human rights archives. She also worked in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), within the framework of the Special Commission on Missing and Dead Persons.

© Archivo personal Educator and researcher. Graduate in History from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and holds a Master's degree in Museology and Heritage. She has experience in projects related to cultural mediation, education, and public programs in museums. Her research interests include the interfaces between museology and Brazilian social thinking, as well as the relations between museums and social movements. She is currently coordinator of education at the Museu Bispo do Rosário Arte Contemporânea and professor of Cultural Mediation at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She was co-curator of the artistic project Obscuro Fichário dos Artistas Mundanos (2015 - 2016). She also served as coordinator of the Escola do Olhar - Museu de Arte do Rio, and worked as a researcher at the Núcleo Experimental de Educação e Arte do MAM, Rio de Janeiro.

© Personal archive Visual artist and educator. After a brief career as a professional athlete, he has devoted himself in recent years to researching the relation between the body and certain social and historical aspects. Vidor has experience in cultural mediation in museums as well as public institutions and programs. His works are part of collections such as the Rio Art Museum and Itaú Cultural Institute. In 2016, he became the first Brazilian to be invited by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Seoul (MMCA) to participate in its International Fellowship Program. His recent exhibitions include the first show “Image and Movement,” Casa Francia-Brasil, curated by Lisette Lagnado; “The Color of Brazil,” MAR and “Ways of Seeing Brazil: Itaú Cultural 30 years,” OCA Ibirapuera, both curated by Paulo Herkenhoff; and “No Man’s Land,” Changdong Residence at MMCA, curated by Heejung and Yesul Park.

Rio de Janeiro - Goethe-Institut Colombia

The focus on urban progress, rather than inclusive public policies usually results in excluding urbanization policies. The Vila Autódromo community is a good example of this paradox. In 2013, the city of Rio de Janeiro began a process to evict the inhabitants of this neighborhood, located near the area where the Olympic Park of the city would be built, in anticipation of the 2016 games. Most agreed to leave, but others took to extreme measures in order to stay. Their battle marks the kick-off for "Monumento-Monumento", a cycle of activities to be held in Rio, around territorial memory, social struggles and the perpetuation of violence.

The idea is to build a platform of resistance and dialogue based on three objectives: to support the neighbors in the creation of a living archive; invite artists to discuss the notions of territoriality and memory as a result of eviction and expropriation, and create a network with other communities that have been through or are currently living an experience similar to Vila Autódromo.

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Artistic actions in Vila Autódromo

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Beyond the tractor: art and resistance in Vila Autódromo

After an intense and thorough work undertaken with the inhabitants of Vila Autódromo, artists and curators opened the “Open Sky” monument and launched the publication “Vocabularies in Movement, Lives in Resistance”, both of them symbols of the struggle of this community.

Vocabularies in Movement, Lives in Resistance

Book in Portuguese(PDF, 3 MB)

Spatialization

How do we spatialize struggle? How do we set boundaries around the existence of Vila Autódromo? How do we make it visible?

These are some questions that steer the debate surrounding this community's territorial occupation. To develop a "structure of visibility" that sets boundaries around its existence, artists and curators from Rio de Janeiro work collectively with the village's inhabitants and local actors.

Vila virtual

Vila virtual
Body-territory

Rio de Janeiro curators and artists carry out a series of workshops with the inhabitants of Vila Autódromo. This is a commitment to collective creation, which seeks to problematize the memories and wishes of participants. Here are some reflections about the first workshop, entitled 'Vila virtual.'