Colin Chinnery

Artist, Curator, Writer

Colin used to work at the British Council in Beijing. Left there to set up the Ullens space www.ucca.org.cn  Now moved on to be freelance - various international curating projects as well as continuing his own art practice. 

Wang Bang

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. 

H Sabrina Gledhill

Sabrina is a British national, born in Canada, raised in Puerto Rico and educated in the US and UK! She's lived in Salvador for over 20 years, bringing up her family here. She works as a researcher, translator, writer and lecturer, having translated over 20 books. 

Sabrina worked with us, accompanying us during our time in Bahia. She's writing a text about the work we did in Bahia, from a local perspective. 

She's available to assist with interesting, responsible, socially-engaged arts projects ... 

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Marcia Abujamra