Brazilian ArtA History of Resisting Adversity

From experimental movements of the 1960s, moving through the gambiarra aesthetics in the 2000s, to the need for exile that is determined by the current political situation, Brazilian artistic production is guided by a kind of motto: to create from material and social adversity, transforming precarity into a conceptual tool.

Photo (detail): Sergi Reboredo © picture alliance

Silent ColonialismThe Expat and Immigrant Power Games

Why are there two terms for people that leave their home country to live and work elsewhere? The connotations of the notions “expat” and “immigrant” reveal the colonial power structures that shape migration today.

© Marina Camargo, 2019​

Ailton Krenak“We Have Always Been at War”

In an interview, writer thinker, and one of the most important activists of the Brazilian indigenous movement, Ailton Krenak, talks about the ideas of belonging and resistance that permeate the struggle of indigenous populations of the American continent.
 

Photo (detail): Michele Ursi © mauritius images/Alamy Stock Photos

Digital NativesChildhood in the Era of Surveillance

Children and youth are the victims of excessive data collection by online applications.  However, children and adolescents in Europe enjoy higher levels of data privacy and protection than those who live in what is called the Global South.

Film still: Courtesy The Andy Warhol Museum

Andy Warhol’s “Screen Tests”Moving Images that Practice Standing Still