Mônica Nador and Bruno Oliveira

Who decides which narratives will be preserved for posterity? Your local library is full of books and stories, but perhaps very few of them are about a life that resembles your own.

Biography

Mônica Nador (1955, Brazil) is a visual artist whose earliest work dates from the 1980s. In 2004, Nador founded Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC), a community centre that promotes lectures, workshops, activities and exhibitions among local residents to encourage the development of both cultural and political awareness in São Paulo’s Jardim Miriam district, where Nador lives and works.

Bruno Oliveira is a visual artist and an educator. Along with Mônica Nador and Thais Scabio, he is a coordinator for Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC) and is currently a PhD Student in Visual Arts with a research background in geopolitics, aesthetic speculation and decolonial visuality in Latin America and the coordinator of the cultural centre Casa 1 (São Paulo/Brazil), which offers shelter to LGBT people expelled from their homes.

Interview with Nador & Oliveira

Essay

Deise Faria Nunes (BR/NO) is an artistic concept developer, researcher, writer and dramaturg,
and currently a PhD researcher in theatre at
the University of Agder, Norway. Among other things, she has acted as founder, producer and project leader for ACTS Laboratory for Performative Practice in Oslo, and as a project developer and dramaturg for Nordic Black Theatre.

In this essay she writes about Mônica Nador and Bruno Oliveira’s work on community building in relation to the concepts of diapraxis, performance and play.

Read the essay here:
THE POWER OF LISTENING: DIAPRAXIS, PLAY AND ANOTHER GRAMMAR FOR THE CITY