Artists in residence

is a creator, developer, visual artist and data enthusiast immersed in the experience. Born in the interior of Bahia and raised in Baixada Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. She researches, develops ideas and produces different media and codes related to memories, races, intersectionality, dissidence, colonial critique, immersive technologies and black affectivities that actively promote dissident and powerful narratives, visions and bodies.

Talu Reis is a researcher, visual artist and activist (human rights and communication) born in Salvador. He grew up between a dialogue between the capital of Bahia and an inland city called Terra Nova. His work aims at visual communication and artistic expressions as strategies to fight epistemic violence. He also believes that this "artvism" focuses on technological practices, gathering actions in the BigData context.

Meet Smashing Wor(l)ds: residency and living project.

Smashing Wor(l)ds begins with a call: a flash of creation enters our eyes, allowing the emergence of visual and acoustic artistic provocations that sharpen the sensitive devices to develop a collective vision that the technology or medium in which an art makes contact with its audience is also part of the experience of the work.

We have pursued the notion that exhibitions and virtual spaces not only register information and collections, but also tend to resize and redefine their proposals for development and social service.

The possibility of forging new relationships with the audience and engaging gives digital works a cathartic magic that lies in the possibility of participation.

The research and practice in Smashing Wor(l)ds is an approximation with the words that form the imaginations and subjectivities of the groups and collectives of refugees immersed in these intersections, where the recomposition/recreation of the words and their exchange is a mythical endeavor. in the most functional sense of the word: to reinvent ourselves, not only and despite hetero-cisexualized colonial silence, but against it and from our own perspectives.

Throw yourself into the sea. The sea has no borders
Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR) is very different from European Portuguese (PT-PT), especially in its vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax, which gives different meanings and expressions to the written and spoken language. Brazil is embedded in a political-historical scenario strongly marked by colonialism, which triggers resistance movements of non-hegemonic cultures through its multiple referential manifestations. We of the Black Atlantic are a living parallel, where new vocabularies are constructed daily as tools to combat epistemic violence. This national migration repertoire is reconciled with the studies of the European migration scenario, moment and history during the artistic research of the virtual domain Smashing World.

In this residency, we will seek to explore what elements are part of the digital experience and how these creations support a gradual transformation of the reality of dissident populations marginalized by social structures established in cis-white heterosexual patterns.

Programming, experience, and design are gateways to unlearning and reimagining the reality and representation of feelings of diverse people around the globe. When the sick world demands physical distance, artistic experiments in the digital heal by creating a place of safety and proximity for dissident communities.

3.05.2022 (Tuesday) at 18.00
Talking in between us, dreaming together with Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis (Brazil)
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

Artists in residence staying in Vienna 1.05.2022 until 5.07.2022
Proposed and organized by the EU project “Smashing Wor(l)ds: Cultural Practices for re/Imagining & un/Learning Vocabularies” (2020–2022) / Marissa Lôbo.
With them we will work, May and June 2022, to present works at the Festival Vocabularies of Life, from 30 June to 3 July 2022, Belvedere 21 (Arsenalstraße 1, 1030 Wien, Austria).

18.05.2022 (Wednesday) at 18.00
PUBLIC TALK  by Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis (Brazil)
The talk will be introduced by  MarissaLôbo.
Presentation open to all.
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna/IBK/ Studio for Post-conceptual Art Practices /Prof. Marina Grzinic. Staying  from 1.05.2022 until 5.07.2022. Proposed and organized by the EU project “Smashing Wor(l)ds: Cultural Practices for re/Imagining & un/Learning Vocabularies” (2020–2022) / Marissa Lôbo.

23.05.2022 (Monday) at 14.00 until 17.00 
FIRST of 5 SESSIONS WORKSHOP
Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis in collaboration with Marissa Lobo
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

24.05.2022 (Tuesday) at 14.00 until 17.00 
SECOND  of 5 SESSIONS WORKSHOP
Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis in collaboration with Marissa Lobo
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

30.05.2022 (Tuesday) at 14.00 until 17.00 
THIRD  of 5 SESSIONS WORKSHOP
Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis in collaboration with Marissa Lobo
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

31.05.2022 (Tuesday) at 14.00 until 17.00 
FOURTH of 5 SESSIONS WORKSHOP
Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis in collaboration with Marissa Lobo
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

13.06.2022 (Tuesday) at 14.00 until 17.00 
LAST FIFTH of 5 SESSIONS WORKSHOP
Izzadora Sá and Talu Reis in collaboration with Marissa Lobo
Atelierhaus, Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien, 1OG Atelier Süd (M1)

With presentation of  students works from the workshop for the show in BELVEDERE 21.