Ж (São Paulo, 198-) film-designer, programmer, educator, editor
_Small statement
Has a non-specialized & situated artistic/cultural practice that investigates the energetic, materialistic, economical, political and libidinal fluxes and cycles of (semio)capitalism. It embraces different strategies, materials, propositions, and medias to uncover its effects in perception, memory, subjectivity in our present ecological collapse. His projects took the form of films, video-spaces, counter-spaces, texts, performances, and public spaces interventions that oriented a sense of the reinsertion of artistic practice in specific social-political contexts.
_Selected exhibitions & screenings (solo)
linguametragem/ languemetrage – Viva Jonas! -Homage to Jonas Mekas (with Carla Lombardo, Raphaël Maureau, Diana Ilescu, Tetsuya Maruyama (丸山徹也), Dovilė Aleksaitė & RIVΞЯΛO Cinemateca MAM, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (2019)
A União do Povo / People’s Union– Programa de Exposições CCSP- Centro Cultural São Paulo (with Carla Lombardo), São Paulo-Brazil (2018-19)
Cineclube Invenção- A consciência e a morte da representação– Espaço Colabirinto, São Paulo, Brazil (2018)
Film’s by Ж Sala Nordeste, Recife-Brazil (2013)
Revém Natura La Quimera, Córdoba-Argentina (2013)
Revém Natura La Darsena, Buenos Aires-Argentina (2013)
_Collective (selected)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)-Cinemateque (Crossroads 2018) – San Francisco EUA .:. Pantalla Global-CCCB -Barcelona-Spain & Museo San Telmo -San Sebastián-Spain; Ultima Frontera (Last Frontier) .:. EAC (Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo) Montevideo- Uruguay & Cantor Gallery, Massachusetts-USA .:. BIM- Bienal de la Imagen Movimiento- Buenos Aires .:. BIENALSUR (2021) Buenos Aires .:. 13 Bienal de Artes Mediales (Temblor), Santiago-Chile .:. II Bienal do Ouvidor, São Paulo .:. Celluloid Now – Chicago Film Society -USA .:. FRACTO- ACUD Kino Berlin Germany .:. Berwick Film & Media Festival– UK .:. Transient Visions. NY-USA .:. 13 CineOP- Ouro Preto :. 19 FestCurtas BH- Brazil .:. VisArts– Frame & Frequency 3– Rockville- USA .:. Microscope Gallery– Present for Jonas- NYC-USA .:. Blitz#27: Ж Economia/Ecologia_Zumzeig Cinema-Barcelona .:. The Clemente (KABAYITOS Microcinema) – NYC-USA .:. Program Small Notes on Small Gestures: MONO NO AWARE NYC-USA, Image Forum– Tokyo-Japan, Centro Cultural Maria Antonia_USP – São Paulo & others .:. Pungnant Film Series- Athens .:. Istanbul Intern. Experimental Film Festival– Turkey .:. Dobra Festival Int. do Cinema Experimental- Cinemateca MAM -RJ-Brazil .:. 18th Images Contre Nature, Marselle, France .:. CCEG- Centro Cultural España -Guatemala .:. 30th Instant Video Numerique et Poetique –Marseile- France .:. PC EXPERIENCE .:. Casa das Rosas – São Paulo-Brazil .:. Besides the Screen International Conference– Espirito Santo- Brazil .:. MADATAC Centro.Centro; Palacio de Cibeles- Madrid-Spain .:. 5th Frontera Sur Festival -Chile .:. Ultracinema– Puebla–México .:. MUTA – Festival Internacional de Apropriación Audiovisual, Lima, Peru .:. & others.
_Publications & Collaborations
Book publication (co-editor) Aspiro al Gran Laberinto y otros pasajes – Hélio Oiticica – translated to spanish by Carla Lombardo. edition .txt texto de cinema & Libros UNA (on going)
Book publication (editor) bcubico – V.A – Multilingual book about the cultural space Bcubico. edition .txt texto de cinema, 2022
Text (author) – Prática artística: apropriação, desvio e interrupção de fluxo – Revista Eco-Pós -UFRJ | Apropriações e ressignificações na arte e no pensamento | V. 24 | N.3 | ISSN: 2175-8689. Brazil, 2021 (link)
Text (author) – Foi bcubico / It was bcubico – bcubico’ book – V.A .txt texto de cinema, 2022 | ISBN: 978-85-92970-04-8 (link)
Text (author) – Matar los ojos para ver / Kill the eyes to see – Doc’s Kingdom. Portugal, 2021 (link)
Text (editor)- En el Día del Fuego Piedras en el Agua– Eduardo Molinari / Archivo Caminante – Portuguese and Spanish. edition .txt texto de cinema, 2021 (link spa)
Book publication (editor) – Diàrias (1970-1972) – Jonas Mekas – Translation from Lithuanian to Spanish and Portuguese. – edition .txt texto de cinema. Brazil, 2019
Book publication (editor) – arTTrainee – Cartografias de Agenciamentos Ezquizo-analiticos no Ensino Aprendizagem em Arte- E. Barrus – edition .txt texto de cinema. Brazil, 2017
Catalog publication (editor)- yb 40 years of cineActivism – English and Portuguese yann beauvais’ exhibition catalog- edition .txt texto de cinema. Brazil, 2015
Text (author) _ Y … – Arte Contexto Magazine (Essay) ISSN 2318-5538. Brazil, 2015. (link)
Text (author) Poor image – virtualized reality in Extraterritorial (Essay). Revista ClimaCom- Mudanças Climáticas. ISSN 2359-4705. Brazil, 2015 (link)
Text (co-author) – Writing Images: Interview with yann beauvais – Published in spanish. Revista Laboratório, Chile (ISSN 0718-7467) & La Fuga (ISSN 0718-5316); portuguese. Hambre. Argentina (ISSN 2346-8831); english Desistfilm.Peru (ISSN 2311-7451)
Text (co-author) – XX-XY -XXY: Interview with Diane Torr-Published in portuguese. Revista Azmina; english Art Reveal Magazine. Collaboration with Carla Lombardo
_Commissions, Prizes, Fellowships, Collections
Collection_ Rema nascentes_ Museu da Cidade de São Paulo (MCSP) 2022
Grant_ Cinemaquina (project) RUMOS – Itaú Cultural (along with Moema Pascoini)
Grant_ Rema Nascentes (film) Prêmio Aldir Blanc de Apoio ao Audiovisual – Secretaria Municipal Cultura São Paulo Brazil, 2020
Grant_ Diàrias (1970-1972) _ Jonas Mekas– LKI -Lithuanian Culture Institute – Translation from Lithuanian to Portuguese and Spanish (.txt texto de cinema)
Commission_ MO_VO (Mobiliário para Ativação da Memória) – Seminário: Memórias e Identidades da Formação Artística e Cultural de São Paulo – Secretaria Municipal Cultura São Paulo- Brazil, 2019
Prize/Commission_ A União do Povo / People’s Union / Programa de Exposições – Centro Cultural (CCSP). São Paulo – Brazil, 2018
Prize_ SSS -South Small Sister (Irmã menor do Sul)– Public Air Space – European Foundation/ Leida Drone Associación. Spain, 2016
Fellowship_ Bains Argentique- International Films Labs Meeting. Nantes, 2016
Commission_ EXTRATERRITORIAL– EAC- Espacio de Arte Contemporanea. Montevideo. Uruguay, 2015
Fellowship_ Revém Natura – AECID- Centro Cultural España en Guatemala in Talento, Cámara, Inovación. Guatemala, 2014
Fellowship _ CI.NE: Natural Expanded Cinema/ Revém Natura _ Ministry of Culture Brazil – Oaxaca, México, 2012-2013
Prize_ Revém (…) working progress of Revém Natura. Fundación Waja – Colombia, 2012
Collection_ ∆ k ∆ ∑ ∆ r j ∑ n (aka marjen) – Pantalla Global (virtual Museu) CCCB- Centro Cutlura Contemporanea. Barcelona. Spain, 2011
Fellowship_ Programming course Lua & NCL language. Telemidia-Puc-Rio, Brazil, 2008
_Film Programs
BLITZ #27: Ж Economía/Ecología – Programmer– film screening. Adriana Villa Guevara, CinemaCopains, Pedro Neves Marques, yann beauvais & Ж. Zumzeig Cinema– Barcelona-Spain
Derrubada não! – Programmer- film screening yann beauvais at Centro Maria Antonia part of History of Experimentation on Critic and Cinema – HECC-USP
Viva Jonas- Homagem to Jonas Mekas -Programmer- films and performances program – Cinemateca MAM-Rio & CCBB-SP, 2019
NOOSFERA + -Programmer (6 months) – Matilha Cultural. São Paulo, Brasil, 2017
Dobra Festival Internacional Cinema Experimental – Programmer – Program: _ _ f i n _ _ _ Cinemateca do MAM – Modern Art Museum. Rio de Janeiro, 2016
Socio Environmental Film Show – Programmer – A.M.P. Gaibu, Brasil, 2016
Image-Thought/ Imagem-pensamento – Co-programmer – Bcubico, Brasil, 2013-2014
_Education
Imágenes e historia- proyección, bucle, parentesis, apropriacción – lecture. Brujula – Imagenes y palabras. Subcoop Plataforma Educativa, Buenos Aires, 2021 (online).
Video Avatar _ Reciclaje y Desvio de Medios – course. La Tabakalera San Sebastián/Donosti-Basque Country, 2019
Fronteiras Imaginárias. Workshop with rapanui kids. Toki. Rapanui . Eastearn Island, Chile, 2019 (Ibercultura Viva grant)
Hand Painted Film Worskhop– Workshop. Sesc Avenida Paulista. São Paulo, Brazil, 2019
Hand Painted Film Workshop/ Oficina do Filme Pintado– Workshops. Pontos MIS- Museu da Imagem e do Som Brazil, 2018-2019
Hand Made Cinema – Film course – Casa Ranzini (Imagineiro) Collaboration with Lila Foster. São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Minor Film & Media/Film e Midia Menor – Course with Mbya -Guaranis- Aldeia Mata Verde Bonita-Rio de Janeiro- Brazil 2016 (Ibercultura Viva grant with Ventana a la Diversidad)
Fazer o Mundo Fazendo Video. Film course coordination- Gaibú, Brazil, 2014-2016.
Cine e.e.e (ensaio,errática, expansão). Film course – Olinda, Brazil, 2013.