born 2002, German and Brazilian.
I am a writer, graphic designer, and art theorist engaged at the intersection of transcultural studies, postcolonial studies, and infrastructural critique. I think around monsters, specifically through anthropophagy/cannibalism and its negotiation of the Other inside the Self. I finished my B.A. in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at die Angewandte in Vienna and have experience working in fine arts, theatre and project management within the cultural industries.
Feel free to contact me for collaborations, pitches, questions, and projects.
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● What is important to me:
Create and maintain sustainable and self-reflective work environments built on collaboration.
I loathe for building community.
Maintenance work, to speak in Mierle Laderman Ukeles terms: “after the revolution: who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” (1969).
Sustain spaces that critically inquire their own intrinsic power hierarchies.
Imperfection, cracks, and discourse, as Ghislaine Leung puts it “I have been taught to bolster arguments, to defend my position and create a watertight argument. Watertight. That's exactly it. Impenetrable to anybody else. How can you make something discursive if everything is watertight?” (2023: 76).
● What I really (really, really) would like to do (more of):
Art writing and publishing (press releases, interviews, profiles, reviews, critcism, scholarship, editing)
Dramaturgy for theatre and script development for films
Curation of exhibitions and public programming
Artistic project management and production
Journalism
● What has accompanied me for years:
“He can do some things that you can't do.
You can do some things that he can’t do.
I can do some things that neither of you can do.
I know that I can't drive a truck.
And I can't run a bank.
And I can't count.
And I can't lead a movement.
But I can fuck up your mind.”
James Baldwin in Dixon, Terence, dir. 1970. Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris.
Min 18:31-18:55.