Ana Carvalho

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Assistant Professor
Ana Carvalho
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Ana Carvalho

Ana Carvalho is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Multimedia Art Degree at the University of Maia and researcher at CIAC. She is responsible for the Ephemeral Expanded project and a member of the CyPeT project team. Her curatorial work includes the exhibition "Omniscience Strategies of Fracture and Escape" (Fórum da Maia, 2021) and the exhibition by Mark Amerika "Abducted Realities" (Casa Comum, 2023). Ana is responsible for the event "Encontro de Expressões entre Som e Imagem" (since 2016) and co-editor of the book "The Audiovisual Breakthrough" (2016).

Sessions

Quiet Gestures: Care, Wellness and Looking After as Strategies of Survival and Resistance

Ana Carvalho, Sophie McCuen-Koytek, Sarnt Utamachote, Cornelia Lund

Summary
Departing from the limitations of political perspectives on care, we discuss non-hierarchical, non-westernized approaches to caregiving as exemplified in art and music video. Here, care as intimate, reciprocal gesture becomes part of powerful political strategies in decolonial and queer struggles.
Care
Diversity
Feminism
Stage 3
Conversation
English
Conference