Demonstra Workshops is an educational project that aims to develop virtual workshops in the field of visual arts that can contribute to the re-signification of concepts and processes about bodies and non-normative experiences in art. They will be taught by artists, researchers, and educators, with or without disabilities, who address issues pertinent to art and body diversity.
They will be recorded and edited with the collaboration of CUDO DAO, translated into Brazilian Sign Language, and will be freely available in Demonstra’s Youtube Channel.
Demonstra Workshops intends to be a branch of our Demonstra DAO that will seek to disseminate knowledge through art education by means of subjects and professionals who work with themes pertinent to dissident corporeality (functional, gender and diasporic diversity, etc).
In this first stage of the project the artists educators Lua Cavalcante, Juca Fiis and Daniel Moraes were invited. All with experience and property to teach courses related to the purpose of Demonstra. Below is the biography of each of them:
Lua Cavalcante
Lua Cavalcante @luascavalcante is an artist, educator, and cripple. She is a technologist in photography, pedagogue and griĂ´ apprentice, of the Pedagogia GriĂ´. Her artistic language is the production of experiments in self-portraiture, developing investigations the particularities of her body, read under the aspect of disability. Lua presents herself as an artistic-political-pedagogical being proposing reflections about which real and enchanted places she inhabits and operates.
Experience with projects related to education:
• Occupation and Live Poetics of Deformity - Instagram IMSeduca - Instituto Moreira Salles SP in December 2020.
- Course Photocollage and the Poetics of Deformity: An Immersion on Aleijo at the Centro Cultural Bom Jardim CE in March 2022.
- Acting as an art educator in the CCBB Educational Program, from September 2018 to March 2020 and as a cultural mediator at the National Museum of the Republic Honestino GuimarĂŁes, from February 2021 to November 2021, in Brasilia DF.
Juca Fiis
Juca Fiis @jucafiis works with art, education, mediation, and urban installations. He studied architecture at UFRJ, and has a degree in Design from Camberwell College of Arts, in London. He works with hybrid projects between art and mediation and believes in collaborative processes. He has worked with education at Redes da Maré, Solar do Abacaxis, Escola Americana do RJ, Oi Futuro Flamengo, Instituto Todos na Luta, and others. He worked in 2020/21 at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro coordinating the Núcleo de Infâncias e Ativações in the Education sector, since 2017 as a teacher at Parquinho Lage and from 2018-2022 as a member of the teaching council of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. He has participated in four residencies, two in education, at ART OMI, in Hudson, NY, and Ninho, Terra Afefé, Bahia. He idealized the ABERTA residency, at Centro Municipal de Artes Helio Oiticica, and is currently participating in the Demonstra art residency, with the theme poetic informants, in Lisbon. In 2021/2022 he worked with pedagogical strategies and mediator training in the itinerant exhibition Busão, in Rio de Janeiro. Juca is a non-binary person and works this thought not only related to gender, but in deconstruction and disidentification of the binary thought as structural thought.
https://sites.google.com/view/juca-fiis/projetos/lingua-de-fogo
Bichinhes process, nets maré 2020
PROCESS DEMONSTRA 2022
Daniel Moraes
Daniel Moraes @dani is currently taking a Master’s degree in Painting - Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon - and a Degree in Design - Faculty of Campinas, 2008. Since the beginning of his trajectory, the artist investigates conflicts of his body with artistic practices, being drawing, painting and video-happening the main means used. In focus are the personal issues related to the disabled body: dysformation/dysfunction, overcoming/suppression, prejudice/acceptance. More recently he developed the workshop project “Design and the Non-Normative Body” that had its first edition at Centro de Artes Contemporâneas ARQUIPÉLAGO - São Miguel Island; exhibited the video-happening “Hand in hand with my sister” at the exhibition Lines of Thoughts 2020, CICA MUSEUM - Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Korea; and conceived Projeto DEMONSTRA an artistic residency program for people with disabilities that has the support of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture - DGartes.
Examples of experience with art workshops:
- Workshop cycle The Drawing and the non-normative body. Place: Contemporary Arts Center ARQUIPÉLAGO - São Miguel Island - Azores. February 2020
- Workshop Risking: Drawing as risk investigation. UrbanSkecthers Festival - Azores. October 2021
Selected workshops that will be part of the first stage of Escola Demonstra:
Workshop 01_ Aleijado Embroidery.
Experimental embroidery workshop on non-conventional surfaces, from the concept of Déf Ancestry, based on the mythical figure of Arthur Bispo do Rosário. Duration: 1h30 hour. Artist: Lua Cavalcante
Workshop 02_ Laboratory of (De)efficiency
Theoretical and practical drawing workshop that addresses questions about the non-standardization of the creative process, of drawing and of the iconography of the body in the arts. Duration: 1h30 hour. Teaching artist: Daniel Moraes
Workshop 03_ The courage of corn to turn popcorn / GIF Workshop.
Workshop of popcorn observation drawing, and stop motion animation in 2 or more frames. Reflection about transformation, and learning with instability and small formats like us, popcorn and GIFs. Duration 1h30 hour. Teaching artist: Juca Fiis
Workshop 04_ Tactile Self-Portrait
Theoretical and practical drawing workshop that addresses issues about sensory drawing stimulated by the perception of touch. Concepts about the representation of disabled bodies in the arts are also presented in the theoretical part of the workshop. Duration: 1h30 hour. Teaching artist: Daniel Moraes
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4 Art Workshops about Art, Disability and Corporeities: 1,200 USD (300 USD each) - Each workshop will have theoretical and practical content involving art and themes about body diversity and disability, will be recorded with the video production support team and language interpreters and will be freely available on the Demonstra Channel linked to the Demonstra Workshops project. Each workshop will have an average duration of 1h30 and the development and production period of the workshops will last three months starting May 23, 2022.
Direction: 200 USD - Contact and follow-up with the artists and educators who will be part of the Demonstra Workshops project; coordination of the production team, design, video editing and sign language interpreters; approval and direction of the workshops’ content that must always be aligned with the project’s purpose.
Design: 250 USD - Demonstra Workshops will have its own visual identity for videos, which encompasses workshop opening, workshop program content, and publicity material for this project.
Video Editing: 200 USD - The post-editing of the videos will be done with the professionals from CUDO DAO and will include editing and cutting of the videos, creation of the layout of the recordings linked to the design created and synchronization between the lines of the teaching artists and the professional sign language interpreters.
SUB-TOTAL: 1850 USD