Labtec

Photographic Lab on Avenida Angelica (at top end nearer to Paulista). 

Talk to Wilson. He's great. Takes the time to talk through what you need and to get it just right. Doesn't speak English. 

Patricia Souza

Patricia used to work for the British Council, now a freelance producer of various artforms

Stephen Rimmer

Stephen is the Creative Industries Manager at the British Council in Sao Paulo. 

Priscilla & Angela Santos - Paço des Artes

Dimitrios - Galeria Coletiva

Marcos Gallon

Curator at Galeria Vermelho (Red Gallery)

www.galeriavermelho.com.br

Curates annual Verbo Festival of performance 

Edouard Fraipont

http://diversao.uol.com.br/album/edouard_fraipont_album.jhtm

http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4592&Itemid=182

Edouard Fraipont, a visual arts practitioner and photographer from São Paulo who works with self portraiture and iconography. Recent research explores evocations of the supernatural in landscapes and transfiguring the body to create distorted photographic testimonies.

Camila Sposati

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0708/07080103

www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=315

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 was co-hosted by Gasworks, UK.

Pedro

Jailton Carvalho

www.fotolog.ig.com.br/jailtao

Biba Rigo

Biba is an artist, making interventions into public space and provoking participation and collaboration from members of the public. She also runs a space in the Vila Madalena district of São Paolo, which is used one night as a cinema, then the next a discussion forum, then the next for an art opening. Also used as a 'space exchange' with other artists. 

Livraria Cultura

Fantastic, huge bookshop in São Paulo. 

Within the Conjunto Nacional shopping centre, which is on the corner of Av. Paulista and Rua Augusta. 

Guilherme Teixeira

Curator at Centro Cultural São Paulo

Fabiano Marques

Fabiano is a visual artist working in curatorial intervention, video and installation. He lives in Sao Paulo but has recently spent 6 months in the UK, supported by the Artists Links residencies.  

We went to Fabiano's exhibition opening at the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo. He was part of the PANORAMA DOS PANORAMAS show, which put together works from the permanent collection of the musuem. Fabiano's was a very interesting work. While walking around the show, one occasionally came across paintings covered by low-profile, slick, brown cardboard boxes. This was Fabiano's work and in an examination of the structures of museums, of curating, and of whom chooses which art is displayed, the curators chose different artwork each week that would be covered. Apparently, a woman had come to the opening to see a painting of her husband's that she had recently donated to MAM, and found that the painting was covered by Fabiano's cardboard cloak! 

Felipe Moraes

My work is based upon a brazilian popular genre of writting called
'chronicle', it's a kind of 'short cuts' with a strong presence of
oral language. 

Maurício Santos

We met Maurício in Sao Paolo, with his wife Cristina, a psychologist and their son, Chico. 

My first background is in music. I have a degree in Composition, and during some time my main field of work was to compose and play music for theatre. I've done some work with electroacoustic music as well, and my work "Répétition - sound drama" participated in the IV International Biennial of Electroacoustic Music of São Paulo (Bimesp), in 2002. 

I've always written poems and short stories, so by that time I decided to change my focus in theatre from music to text. My first play "Máscara Preta" was performed by the Grupo Griot in the fringe of the Curitiba International Theatre Festival, in 2002. 

In 2004, I moved to London and then to Paris, where I studied literature in the Université de  Paris VIII.  In 2005 I moved back to São Paulo, where I finished (in 2006) my doctorate in French Literature, with a thesis on french writer, film maker and playwright Marguerite Duras and the role of music in her work. Since 2007, I'm working on a film project, with the support of the State of São Paulo, a documentary that investigates the body in the context of anorexia.

 
Today, I'm part of the artist collective As Rutes, which performs interventions in urban contexts, particularly in São Paulo, using techniques of clowns, storytelling and visual arts. 
Finally, I write for www.futepoca.com.br - Futebol, Política e Cachaça (Football, Politics and Cachaca), a blog that won the prize of best brazilian sports blog in 2007! And we are now competing for the iBest prize in the same category. 

Milena Durante

Milena is working with us as a translator. 

She is an artist. See

www.eia05.zip.net

www.mapeia.blogspot.com

Túlio Tavares

http://www.nbp.pro.br/blog.php?experiencia=24  

Túlio is an artist and will be working with us as a photographer and translator. 

"I know very well São Paulo as I was born here and it is the place where I have been living all my life. The city and the public space are the areas where my production fits better. I also document, in videos, the life of the population and the social movements. I have just lunched the documentary named “São Paulo, Politics of the Discensus”; it is a historic and poetic portrait of downtown area done in the conflict field of the gentrification process. If I have the chance I’d like to show this material, it has got an English version and it was presented in Serpentine Galley in London this year by two people who work at the Whitechapel and the Barbican, Shamita Sharmacharja and Melanie Lenz."

He lives in Vila Madalena area of São Paulo. 

Roberta Mahfuz

Artist. 

Currently working as Artists Links Manager for the British Council in São Paulo, Brazil

Marcia Abujamra