NATALIA DE CAMPOS

BIOGRAPHY

(STUDIO 504)

Natalia de Campos is a multidisciplinary artist & activist from São Paulo, Brazil working in performance, video, sound, writing, interactive media, theater, and as an actor, theater director, producer, researcher, educator and translator. Natalia worked in São Paulo for ten years before moving to New York in 1998. She has been a long-term studio resident of the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center since 2001. She has a BA in History from the University of São Paulo, a professional license as an actor, and an MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College/CUNY

In 1999, she founded Syncretic Pleasures and produces multidisciplinary performances with international collaborators, objects and solo works. Her works have been shown primarily  in New York City and in São Paulo. Some venues include: chashama 461 gallery, Art in Odd Places: SENSE 2017; Festival de Música Estranha (São Paulo 2015); The Living Theater, 70th Anniversary Retrospective (SESC São Paulo 2017); Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center/CUNY (2019); El Museo del Barrio; DUMBO Arts Festival; solivagant gallery (Lower East SIde, 2016), and many others. More details: syncreticpleasures@gmail.com & syncretic.carbonmade.com

A recent project is the soundscape “Common Elements: The Heart of El Museo” (2014), installed in the lobby of El Museo del Barrio in the Spanish Harlem, New York City, which she developed with the museum’s operations staff, under a commission for Office Hours, a project of Nicolás Dumit Estévez. ( http://www.elmuseo.org/office-hours/friends-of-friends  )

In constant re-development, ART&COM Work Displays History, is an interactive social art platform in collaboration with Thiago Szmrecsányi, first shown at the Jamaica Colosseum Mall as part of JAMAICA FLUX 2016, and subsequently as ART&COM: RE-LOCATION, presented by Emma Thomas Gallery in the Lower East Side in December 2016, and later showing in São Paulo’s Epicentro (April 2017). http://jamaicaflux.info/writings/how-to-sell-nothing/ 

ART&COM (Natalia de Campos & Thiago Szmrecsányi) partnered with two collaborators (Tracy Collins & Toya Mileno) and presented “Collective Bargain” under the newly founded UAAU (United Artists & Activists Union) at Art in Odd Places: SENSE 2017 (October 2017) as a 3-day moving protest-performance-interactive-installation. https://collectivebargain.org/about

UAAU presented “Free Time in the Collective Bargain”, a performance-installation at King Manor’s Museum in SEQAA’s (c)Art - Southeast Queen’s Artists Alliance, in September 2018. Most recently, the “Manifesto of the UAAU (pronounce wow )” was a performance-video-installation in “Animated objects and Resistant Bodies”, curated by Edward Miller & Valerie Tevere, presented by the Center for the Humanities at the Martin Segal Theater at the Graduate Center/CUNY (May/ 2019).

In February 2016, Natalia helped found the Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee New York, which has been using art and activism as tools to educate politically and empower people for social change, with hundreds of actions, events, screenings, debates, projections and media activism to date, produced by Natalia and her peers, realized all over the streets of NYC; at universities like NYU, Columbia, Graduate Center, Murphy Center for Labor Studies/CUNY; and at community spaces such as The People’s Forum, Justice Center en El Barrio,  CSV’s studio 504, among many others, sometimes in collaboration with other groups. www.defenddemocracyinbrazil.org

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