Event Description
Brazilian poet and performer Ricardo Aleixo presents his work “FESTIM & The Others: Thirty Years of Intermedial Travels,” as part of his residency at UC Berkeley. Following his performance, the artist will be in conversation with curator Bernardo Mosquiera.
Speakers
Ricardo Aleixo is an intermedia artist and researcher of literature, other arts, and media. Since 1992, when he released Festim – Um disconcerto de música plastica, his debut book, he has released 14 other titles, among them, Modelos Vivos (Ed. Crisálida, 2010) and the most recent, Extraquadro (Ed. Minas/LIRA, 2021). His works mixes poetry, fictional prose, philosophy, ethnopoetics, anthropology, history, music, radio art, visual arts, video, dance, theater, performance and urban studies. His work was recently part of the exhibitions “Praça da Língua e Falares” (2021, Portuguese Language Museum/SP) and “Carolina Maria de Jesus – A Brazil for Brazilians” (2022, IMS/SP). In 2021, he was awarded the title of "Notório Saber em Letras: Estudos Literários," a doctoral-level degree, by the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Bernardo Mosqueira is a curator and writer based in New York City. He is the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum (2021-present, New York), the founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis (2015-present, Rio de Janeiro), and the director of the Prêmio FOCO ArtRio (2011-present, Rio de Janeiro). Mosqueira holds a Master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (Bard College, 2021), and has been curating exhibitions, editing books, teaching, and contributing texts to art publications since 2010.
Cosponsors
This event is presented by the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and cosponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.