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Art, Technology, and Activism in Brazil: 20 years of Frente 3 de Fevereiro

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November 22 @ 6:00 pm 7:30 pm

Frente 3 de Fevereiro is a Brazilian collective founded in 2004 following the murder of Flávio Ferreira Sant’Ana, a Black dentist, by São Paulo military police. Based in São Paulo, the group uses different artistic languages to denounce the brutal situation faced by racialized people in Brazil while creating a new reality. During this conversation, Frente 3 de Fevereiro members will discuss Ancestral Intelligence, 2023-2024 a work on view in Seeing through Stone that uses AI as a counter-technology through which, Maurinete Lima, a Black feminist liberation leader is re-embodied and brings ancestral wisdom to current and future struggles.

Image: Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Ancestral Intelligence, 2023-24. Photography by Daris Jasper @culturesaving.

Free