This coming Saturday, 16 August, from 2 pm to 5 pm, Portas Vilaseca will host a public event in partnership with the international residency programme Fluid Boundaries: The Interplay of Water, Art, Science, and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Brazil, South Africa and Switzerland.

The programme includes the debate “Art, Science and Knowledge for Possible Futures”, featuring Brazilian artist Carla Maldonado, selected for the residency, Paulo Basta (Fiocruz), Gabriela Devaud (co-curator), and guests Beka Munduruku and Sandra Benites.

The event proposes a transdisciplinary dialogue in which water is understood as a living being, ancestral symbol, threatened resource and poetic matter. Artist Carla Maldonado will present the developments of her research, sharing audiovisual excerpts from works in progress. Munduruku and Benites, on the other hand, will share knowledge and practices rooted in ancestry and their territorial realities, expanding perspectives on sustainability, coexistence and transformation. The gahtering will end with a Q&A and discussion with the public.

Come along and join us!

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“Between Waters and Worlds: Art, Science and Knowledge in Motion”
Public talk on the creative and transdisciplinary process of the Fluid Boundaries Residency
When: Saturday, 16 August, 2 pm–5 pm
Where: Portas Vilaseca | Rua Dona Mariana, 137, house 2 – Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Free admission

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Fluid Boundaries is a collaboration project between VIAD at the University of Johannesburg (SA), AiRSA (SA), Portas Vilaseca (BR), artists-in-labs program at Zurich University of the Arts (CH), MASI Lugano (CH) and the IBSA Foundation (CH). Partner Institutions Science: University of the Western Cape (SA), University of Johannesburg (SA), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (BR), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (CH).

Fluid Boundaries is supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

More information: www.fluidboundaries.org