Artist Links is a joint Arts Council England and British Council programme, with support from Visiting Arts, which aims to develop and implement a network of collaborative links resulting in exchanges, placements, joint productions and development opportunities between England and Brazil.

Visiting Arts works with British Council Brazil to broker residencies with venues for incoming emerging and established Brazilian artists across a range of genres including dance, theatre, drama, live art, literature, music, visual arts, sculpture, new media, digital work, video and cross art form practice. The programme provides arts organisations with an opportunity to work with international artists over a sustained period of time, building long-term relationships and facilitating intercultural collaboration.

To date four Brazilian artists have undertaken residencies with arts organisations across England.

Maria Leite, an industrial and theatre designer, puppeteer and animator from Minas Gerais, worked with collaborator Daniel Herthel to explore kinetic sculptures and video puppetry animation. They participated in workshops, shared skills and approaches to practice with members of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre at Kinetica, and spent time with animator Stephen Mottram. Maria and Daniel undertook the research phase for their Power House project between April and June 2007 and created a number of kinetic sculptures.

Edouard Fraipont, a visual arts practitioner and photographer from São Paulo who works with self portraiture and iconography was resident at Art Gene in Cumbria and Plymouth Arts Centre between June and August 2007. His research explores evocations of the supernatural in landscapes and transfiguring the body to create distorted photographic testimonies.

Fabiano Marques, a visual artist working in curatorial intervention, video and installation from São Paulo. Fabiano was resident at Art Gene in Cumbria and Site Gallery in Sheffield between May and July 2007. His research explores Fabian thought and is entitled Temporize and permeation.

Camila Sposati from São Paulo works across visual arts media including drawing, photography, film, video and sculpture. She is University College London chemistry department’s first artist in residence between August and October 2007 researching her project Entropy which extends her artistic practice research by engaging with crystals to create sculpture and illuminations. Camila’s residency is co-hosted by Gasworks where she gave an artist’s talk in July about her work and collaborating with artists and scientists.

 

Images: Maquinas funcionando © Maria Leite; Smoke fulfilling the top of the tree © Camilla Sposati

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