Graziela Kunsch

Graziela Kunsch is an artist, educator, editor, writer and mother born and based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Between 2001 and 2003 she opened her house as a “public residency” (Casa da Grazi) and there she organized many residencies and exhibitions, involving collaborations from all over Brazil. As the person in charge of public education at the Vila Itororó Canteiro Aberto cultural centre she defended that the claimed "public interest" of the area must not exclude the former residents of the Vila: she carried out actions against the erasure of these people and the Vila's memory as a place of residence. Among her propositions in this context, we will find the Public Clinic of Psychoanalysis and the long-term video-archive Excerpts from Vila Itororó. Kunsch was also a member of the Movimento Passe Livre (Free Fare/Free Public Transport Movement) and of the community design project USINA. She worked as a teacher at the Federal University of Sao Paulo and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.