CONTRAFILÉ GROUP art politics education
CURRICULUM AND PORTFOLIO
CONTRAFILÉ GROUP is an art-politics-education production group that focuses on encounters with different people, groups, and communities,always from a cartographic perspective that has as its main working material the listening and the performatization of affections and urgencies. Currently, Cibele Lucena, Joana Zatz Mussi, and Rafael Leona are part of this collective, teachers, researchers, and artists who understand education as an important place for creation and inspiration, as it contributes to possible transformations in the collective sensibility. For ten years, Fátima Freire, daughter of Paulo Freire and guardian of his legacy, accompanied the group as political-pedagogical advisor. The group has participated in several exhibitions, such as: Meta Archive 19641985 - Space for Listening and Reading Stories of the Dictatorship (Resistance Memorial and Sesc, 2019), Talking to Action - Art, Pedagogy and Activism in the Americas (USA, various locations, 2017-2019), Playgrounds 2016 (MASP), 31st São Paulo Art Biennial (2014), Radical Education (Slovenia, 2008), If You See Something Say Something (Australia, 2007), The Normality (Argentina, 2006), Collective Creativity (Germany, 2005). Currently, the Group is developing the School of Testimonies project.
CIBELE LUCENA is an artist, educator, and researcher. Holds a Master's in Clinical Psychology/Subjectivity Studies from PUC-SP (2017) with the dissertation "Beijo de Línguas - quando o poeta surdo e o poeta ouvinte se encontram" [Tongues' Kiss - when the deaf poet and the hearing poet meet], with supervision by Suely Rolnik, a work that investigates the poetic and educational experience carried out by Slam do Corpo [Body Slam], a poetry battle that takes place in the imbrication between the Portuguese language and the Brazilian sign language. This project is an unfolding of a large experience that began in 2002, as a formative practice for young deaf educators at MAM-SP, where she worked from 2002 to 2017. Since 2000 she has been working with teacher training, training educators in art exhibitions, and production of educational material for exhibitions and cultural shows, in partnership with different cultural and educational institutions. From 2018 to 2020 she was responsible for the teacher training course at the Brazilian House Museum and frequently works as an invited professor to teach classes and university extension courses at institutions such as the Singularities Institute (undergraduate, latu sensu post-graduation, and university extension in pedagogy) and São Paulo School of Theater - stage arts training center. Simultaneously, develops research in drawing and illustration projects by herself and in collaboration with other artists. JOANA ZATZ MUSSI is a researcher, artist, and educator. She holds a degree in Social Sciences and Journalism, and for twenty years has been investigating, in different ways, the relations between culture and urban space. In 2012 she defended her master's dissertation "Space as Work - Actions, Artistic Collectives and the City" at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo, which became a book with the same title and was published by Annablume with support from the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Fapesp) and, in 2017, at the same institution, as a Fapesp scholar, her doctoral thesis "Art on the Run", in which the focus is the points of convergence between art and social movements today. In 2019 and 2020 she fulfilled a Post-Doctoral internship at the Department of Fine Arts of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo with the project: "An aesthetic-political act: the bodily ability to occupy a certain point of view", under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mário Celso Ramiro de Andrade (2018-2019). During these two years, besides being a researcher, she taught several courses in this same department. Since 2000 she has worked as a teacher, evaluator, and coordinator of cultural projects and programs focused on contemporary art education for young people and teachers, in partnership with different institutions and social movements: Art Museum of São Paulo (MASP), Modern Art Museum of São Paulo (MAM-SP), Tomie Ohtake Institute, Ruth Cardoso Youth Cultural Center (CCJ), São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo Biennial, SESC, and the People' Museum, among others. RAFAEL LEONA, an Argentinean based in São Paulo, works as an artist and teacher, researching the different forms of creative learning and the production of collaborative spaces for the construction of knowledge. He worked for fifteen years as a set designer in Buenos Aires, Madrid, and São Paulo. He studied art in Buenos Aires and majored in pedagogy in São Paulo. For nine years he has been working as an art teacher at Escola da Vila (São Paulo), developing projects aligned with constructivism. He has collaborated with the foundation and participated for ten years in the GAC (Street Art Group, Buenos Aires/Argentina) a collective in which he developed the concepts of intervention and direct action, as well as deepened the intersections between art, politics, and education. In 2006 he emigrated to São Paulo and started working with the collective PI (Politics of the Impossible) and, since then, with Contrafilé Group.
PARTICIPATION IN ART EXHIBITS "IMS Invites". Production of the Podcast for the School of Testimonies, in 3 episodes accessible in Brazilian Sign Language, for online exhibition in the IMS Invite program portal (Moreira Salles Institute), 2020. "Meta-Archive: 1964-1985. Listening and Reading Space for stories from the dictatorship", curated by Ana Pato. Creation of the commissioned work School of Testimonies. Sesc Belenzinho and Memorial of Resistance of São Paulo, 2019. "Art-vehicle," curated by Ana Maria Maia. Exhibition of the piece Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself. Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo/SP, 2018. “Talk to Action: art, pedagogy and activism in the Americas”, curated by Bill Kelley Jr. with Rebecca Zamora. Exhibition of the piece Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself. Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York), Arizona State University Art Museum, Gallerias Sullivan (Tempe), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago) and Ben Maltz Gallery e Otis College of Arts and Design (Los Angeles) (2017 - 2019). "Playgrounds 2016", curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Julieta González and Luiza Proença. Creation of a commissioned work composed of the installation Device Space and publication The Battle of the Living. MASP-Art Museum of São Paulo, São Paulo, 2016. Itinerancy of the "31st São Paulo Art Biennial" with the installation Mujawara of the Tree-School and publication The Tree-School/A Tree of Stories, coauthored by Grupo Contrafilé and Campus in Camps, Serralves Foundation, Porto/Portugal, 2015. "Arid Poetry Zone," curated by Daniel Lima and Túlio Tavares. The exhibition presented a set of more than 55 pieces from 16 art collectives from São Paulo, present in MAR's collection through the Collective Creativity Fund / FUNARTE donation. MAR-Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro, January to April, 2015.
31st São Paulo Art Biennial, " As (...) things that do not exist", curated by Charles Esche, Galit Eilat, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Oren Sagiv and Pablo Lafuente, with associate curators Benjamin Seroussi and Luiza Proença. Commissioned work composed of the installation School-Tree Mujawara and publication School-Tree/Tree of Stories, co-authored by Contrafilé Group and Campus in Camps (West Bank/Palestine). São Paulo, 2014. “Urgent Action” curated by Cecilia Rabossi and Rodrigo Alonso. Exhibition of the piece Program to Deturnstilization of Life Itself. PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. “Playgrounds” curated by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Tamara Díaz and Teresa Velázquez. Exhibition of the piece Park for Playing and Thinking. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain, 2014. "On the Edge - nine collectives, one city", exhibition and book project, participation with the work The Children's Rebellion, Sesc Consolação, São Paulo, 2012. "Cube", project created and performed by the artistic groups: Frente 3 de Fevereiro, BijaRi, Cobaia, Cia Cachorra, Contrafilé and Perda Total [Total Loss], Cultural Center Banco do Brasil, Belo Horizonte (2010) and São Paulo, 2005. "Radical Education", curated by Bojana Piškur, participation with the piece The Children's Rebellion, Moderna Galerija (Museum of Modern Art) and Skuc Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008. ”If You See Something Say Something", curated by Zanny Beg and Keg de Souza. Participation with the works Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself and We Are Not in Rebellion, We Want Our Rights, Peace. Chrissie Cotter Gallery and Mory Gallery, Sydney, Australia, 2007.
"The Normality/Ex-Argentina’ curated by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Loreto Garin Guzman, Eduardo Molinari and Federico Zukerfeld, participation with the piece Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself. Palais de Glace Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006. "Forms and Contents of Dissensus - Strategies of Self-Education," Qui Vive? Youth Art Festival. Participation with the piece Park for Playing and Thinking. National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia, 2006. “Collective Creativity” curated by WHW. Participation with the piece Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself. Kunsthalle Fridericianum Museum, Germany, Kassel, 2005. "Action Zone", project created and carried out by the artistic groups: Contrafilé, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Bijari and Cobaia, with the participation of theoreticians Brian Holmes, Suely Rolnik and Peter Pal Pelbart and the Grupo Arte Callejero [Street Art Group](Argentina). Creation of the commissioned piece Program to De-turnstilization of Life Itself, Sesc Paulista, São Paulo, 2004. "GearInside", curated by Daniela Labra and Mirta Demare, realization of a series of actions in public spaces. Witte de With Art Center and Mirta Demare Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2003. "Brazil Tactical Media Festival". Creation of the commissioned piece Corda. Casa das Rosas [House of the Roses], São Paulo, 2003. "Panorama of Brazilian Art", curated by Paulo Reis, Ricardo Resende and Ricardo Basbaum, participation as MICO group with the workWhat is the distance between anonymity and stardom, Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro, 2001.
EXPERIENCES WITH COORDINATION AND CONSULTING 2012 - 2021 - General and pedagogical coordination of the cultural project Body Slam - 1st poetry battle in Brazil with deaf and hearing poets, poetry in Portuguese and Brazilian sign language. The project takes place with the support of several Brazilian cultural institutions; 2019/20 - Consulting and creation of educational material for the printed publication of the Educational Territories Award, an initiative of the Tomie Ohtake Institute in partnership with the Municipal Education Secretariat (São Paulo), which seeks to strengthen pedagogical experiences that integrate school and community knowledge; 2008 - 2017 - Coordination of the Corposinalizante [Bodiesignalizing] Group - a group of studies and artistic creation open to deaf and hearing people who are interested in Brazilian Sign Language, MAM-SP; 2016 - Consulting for trainers of social workers (basic social protection, living together services and CRAS) with the theme "cartography - an ethical, aesthetic and political device". City Hall of Santos; 2013 - Coordination of the implementation of a community-built public park in partnership with the São Bernardo do Campo Department of Urban Security/Preventive Policies/Peace City Program; 2012 - Coordination and idealization of the educative of the exhibition "On the Edge - nine collectives, one city", exhibition and book project, Sesc Consolação, São Paulo; 2011 - Creation and coordination of the educational action of the exhibition "Archive for an event-work project for activating the body memory of an artistic trajectory and its context", curated by Suely Rolnik. Training and monitoring of educators who welcomed the audience to the exhibition. Sesc Pinheiros, SP;
22002 - 2010 - Coordinator of the Learn to Teach program, at MAM-SP, which trained dozens of deaf educators who now work in museums and cultural spaces in São Paulo; 2008 - Curatorial conception and coordination of educators in the project Observatories for Contemplation and Reflection on a Sustainable Planet, by Editora Abril. Training and monitoring of educators who mediated site-specific artworks installed at Ibirapuera Park during the project; 2007 - Pedagogical supervision of the initial training of the Urban Youth Program of CENPEC (Center for Studies and Research in Education, Culture and Community Action); 2005 - 2007 - Curatorial conception and coordination of the NAP (Visual Arts Center) of CPFL Cultural Space, with pedagogical supervision of Fátima Freire (daughter of educator Paulo Freire). The Group was responsible for the training and continued supervision of the educators of the exhibitions, for the creation of free courses, public programs, and cultural and educational projects that took place in schools, communities, and partner social projects, such as Tainã Culture House. Campinas/São Paulo; 2005 - Research assistance in the project "We are the mold. It's up to you to breathe - Lygia Clark, from artwork to reality", by curator and researcher Suely Rolnik, which resulted in an exhibition with the same name at the São Paulo State Pinacoteca and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; 2004 - Curator and coordination of the exhibition "Action Zone" with the groups The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Bijari and Cobaia, with the participation of Brian Holmes, Suely Rolnik, Peter Pál Pelbart and Grupo de Arte Callejero (Argentina), Sesc Avenida Paulista, São Paulo;
MAIN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES 2021 - SESC Santos - Accomplishment of the 4-meeting course "School of Testimonies - poetry committed to what is alive". The course is an artistic-educational device that starts from the premise that each person is a school and, therefore, that people have their own deep wisdoms and sensibilities, which speak of a singularity while expressing social and collective processes. In this version, guests Alemberg Quindins, Rosane Preciosa, Catharine Moreira, and Kleber Fernando shared testimonies about how they resist, exist, and get through dark times from poetry. 2020 - Institut HyperWerk - University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland - Participation as guest lecturer in the HyperWerk 2020 curriculum, which had the theme "Kommit to conflict", conducting an 8-hour online workshop. 2019 - Itaú Cultural - aesthetic and political workshop within the Entreolhares [Looking back&forth at each other] program. 2018 - SESC Research and Training Center (CPF) - 5-meeting minicourse "What's art got to do with it?" 2015 - Singularities Higher Institute of Education - Guest lecturers of the subject "Art and education through the ages: city happening", in the postgraduate course Education in Museums and Cultural Centers. 2008 - 2011 - Instituto Tomie Ohtake - Educators of the free course "Introduction to contemporary art" of the annual course schedule of Instituto Tomie Ohtake.
Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo Teacher training in the Contacts with Art Project , from 2002 to 2010. Teacher training from the State Public Network in the Encounters with Art Project, from 2003 to 2006. São Paulo Biennial Foundation Elaboration of content for educational material for the exhibition The Biennial effect, curated by Paulo Venâncio, 2013 Tutorship of the e-learning course "So close, so far away", for teacher training in contemporary art. Educational Sector of Bienal Foundation of São Paulo, 2010 2011 - São Paulo Cultural Center - Proposition of the City Game, Selection Process for Mediation in Art Projects. The project consisted in the creation of a poetic device to work with groups of children, young people, and teachers from public and private schools, 2011 2009 - 2010 - Rodrigo Mendes Institute-Art in Inclusive Education. Workshop for principals of the Sorocaba municipal school network, 2009 to 2010
PUBLISHED BOOKS AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS Chapter in the publication Territories Award - ideas on integral education and the school-territory relationship. Org. Felipe Arruda, Tomie Ohtake Institute, 2020. The farce as a school. Educational material for the exhibition "Farce. Language, fracture, fiction: BrazilPortugal", curated by Marta Mestre and assistant curator Pollyana Quintella, SESC, 2020. School of Testimonies - Study Material for Performance Classes. Educational material for the exhibition "Meta-Archive: 1964-1985. Listening and Reading Space for stories of the dictatorship", SESC, 2019. Youth and politics. Contrafilé Group with participation of 15 young people. Booklet published by SESC in the context of the Boteco da Diversidade [Diversity Bar] event in September 2018 (Sesc Pompéia) that had as its theme the relationship between youth and politics. The Battle Of The Living. Book published in the context of the exhibition Playgrounds 2016, at MASP. São Paulo: Invisíveis Produções and MASP, 2016. The Tree-School. Contrafilé Group and Campus in Camps (Palestine). Book published in the context of the 31st São Paulo Art Biennial, 2014.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz. The Children's Rebellion - a rebellion of bodies and cities. In: E-BOOK -Children's right to the city: perspectives from Brazil and Portugal, published in the Open Book Portal of the University of São Paulo, 2021. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz. Arrastão Secundarista [High School Mass Rebellion]. In: Cadernos de Subjetividade [Notebooks on Subjectivity] (PUCSP), v. 1, p. 127-146, 2017. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz; MESSINA, Jerusa; LEONA, Rafael. Rebellions. In: Curator and texts: Adriano Pedrosa, Luiza Proença and Julieta González. (Org.). Catalog of the exhibition Playgrounds 2016. 1ed.São Paulo: MASP, 2016, v. 1, p. 58-68. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz; MESSINA, Jerusa. Engaging with the World. In: catalog How to (talk about) things that do not exist, 31st São Paulo Biennial, Serralves Museum, Portugal, 2015. 1ed.Porto / Portugal: Serralves Foundation, 2015, v. 1, p. 72-78. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz; LEYTON, Daina. Learn in order to Teach. Equal Different Program V.2. 1ed. São Paulo: MAM-SP, 2015, v. 2, p. 20-37. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz. Tree is person, not a word! Revista Urbânia, v. 5, p. 212-213, 2014. LUCENA, Cibele; LEONA, Rafael. City Game. In:I am Public - educational actions for coexistence in public space. 1ed.São Paulo: IBRAM - Brazilian Institute of Museums, 2013, v. 1, p. 78-83. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz; MESSINA, Jerusa. The-Artist-in-the-Lions' Den. Revista Rua (UNICAMP), v. 12, p.59-62, 2006. LUCENA, Cibele; MUSSI, Joana Zatz; MESSINA, Jerusa; BAMBOZZI, Lucas; ROSAS, Ricardo. Urgency. Paris: Parachute, 2004.
CONFERENCES AND LECTURES Participation in the panel "In the Accuracy of the Dream: conversations and essays on Amilcar de Castro", in the context of the exhibition "Amilcar de Castro: at the world' fold", Mube - Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology. May 2021 Participation in the panel Collectivity | Connectivity, organized and moderated by department alumni Tiffany Chung, and joined by Naiza Khan, Merv Espina and Grupo Contrafilé. Art Department, USCB (University of South Carolina Beaufort). April 2021. Participation in the round table "Childhood, City and Heritage", in the context of the V Luso-Brazilian Seminar on Early Childhood Education / II Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress on Childhood and Education, IEA-USP, São Paulo, 2019 Participation in the debate "Disobedience Spaces", at SESC 24 de Maio. The activity was part of the 12th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, 2019. Lecture "Art-politics" at the 3rd meeting of museums of the Secretariat of Culture of the State of São Paulo, held at Sergio Cardoso Theater, São Paulo, 2018. Invited lecturers at the III International Symposium Formation of Educators in Art and Pedagogy. Ways of (Co)living collaborative processes, 2017. Participation in the panel "What the occupied schools say for education", CENPEC, 2016. Participation in the "Mastery of the Floor" panel, 3rd edition of Film Circade, 2016. Participation in the panel "Art, Gentrification and Resistance", Vila Itorororó Canteiro Aberto, 2016.
Invited lecturer at the International Symposium "From Education - Art and Participatory Education", 31st São Paulo Art Biennial, Serralves Museum, Portugal, 2015. Participation in the panel "Gardening: territoriality, temporality, political act", within the Visual Arts Research Group: Theory, Education and Poetics, of the Visual Arts course at UFPR, 2015. Invited speaker at the Right to the City II Symposium, organized by Raquel Rolnik and Zeyno Pekunlu, to observe the role of engaged art in urban contexts, its relationship with activism, and who are the beneficiaries of such practices, brought together artists, activists, and academics from Turkey and Brazil. 31st São Paulo Biennial, 2014. Exhibition in the session "Different Perceptions of the City", VII USP Social Sciences Week, Urban Development, Inequalities, Conflicts, University Center for Social Research and Studies (CeUPES), 2011. Seminar Visual Arts in Contemporary Education: Experiences that Contribute to Inclusion, exhibition at the panel "Artistic Interventions: educational attitudes in public and school spaces", SESC Vila Mariana and Rodrigo Mendes Institute. São Paulo, Brazil, 2009. Seminar Art, Aesthetics and Urban Politics: Thoughts and Social and Artistic Practices in Latin American Public Space. Participation as a group Contrafilé, Spanish Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile, 2009. Lecture Relations between Art and Education in Public Art works, given at the New Academy of Fine Arts of Milan (NABA), Milan, Italy, 2008. Participation as lecturer at the Seminar Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona/Macba, 2007. Participation as a lecturer at ARCO 2007 - V International Forum of Experts in Contemporary Art, invited by Brumaria magazine, Madrid/Spain, 2007. Municipal Seminar of Visual Arts of Guarulhos, Contrafilé group, Municipal Secretariat of Culture of Guarulhos, Brazil, 2007.
AWARDS 2019 It was among the finalists of the 4th International Award for Public Art (IAPA) announced at Shanghai University, China, with the piece Park For Playing and Thinking; 2017 Prince Claus Award Nomination; 2015 Was among the finalists for the Visible Award, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna with the work Mujawara of the Tree-School; 2012 Creative Economy Award, Ministry of Culture of Brazil; 2011 Iberoamerican Prize for Education in Museums, Ibermuseus; 2010 Senses Award, AVAPE, Sentidos magazine and Rede Record Radio and Television Network; 2010 Aesthetic Interactions Award, Artistic Residencies in Culture Points, Ministry of Culture of Brazil; 2009 Aesthetic Interactions Award, Artistic Residencies in Culture Points, Ministry of Culture of Brazil; 2008 Aesthetic Interactions Award, Artistic Residencies in Culture Points, Ministry of Culture of Brazil; 2008 Ludicity Award/Tiny Culture Points, Live Culture Program/Ministry of Culture of Brazil.