The lecture Performative Meetings: 20 Years of Collaborations Between Social and Artistic Movements is part of the exhibition Seeing Through Stone, which explores artistic and activist practices aimed at abolishing carceral structures and questioning historically ingrained systems of oppression. The event focuses on two decades of collaborations between social and artistic movements, highlighting how these partnerships have generated new forms of resistance and political action.

In the context of the exhibition, which brings together 85 artists and collectives from around the world who are engaged in imagining alternatives to prisons and punitive structures, the lecture investigates the intersection of art and activism as a tool to confront racial and social injustices. Frente 3 de Fevereiro, one of the featured groups, uses direct and poetic actions to challenge structural racism in Brazil and connects these struggles to global forms of resistance. By recreating the image of its founder Maurinete Lima through artificial intelligence, the collective proposes an “Ancestral Intelligence” as a contemporary force for struggle and memory.

Within the broader narrative of the exhibition, which offers a radical vision of justice and community, the lecture reflects on the power of artistic and cultural legacies as a form of social transformation. Just as the artists in Seeing Through Stone imagine worlds beyond prisons, Frente 3 de Fevereiro explores new ways of engaging with urban spaces and Afro-Brazilian resistance, contributing to the creation of a future based on justice and solidarity rather than punishment and control.

This is an online event.