Artists Database
Have you ever wondered why it is so much easier to find disabled artists from the Global North, a.k.a Coloniser´s Lands? Even when it is in smaller projects (meant: not funded by a big international institute, a bank etc)? I have asked myself this same question many times. There´s a gap of disabled representation. This Website is an attempt to change a bit this narrative, and brings experienced artists and beginners together, with different media, as well as different life stories – all from the Global South.
The artists presented here went through an open curatorial work: the only criteria were to be disabled or chronically ill and work with arts. You will find here a variety of media and stages of work – beginners or experienced artists. Everyone who consented to participate was included.
Estela Lapponi
Brazilian Performer and Video artist based in São Paulo. The main areas of her artistic research as an independent artist covers: The scenic discourse of the disabled body, Performance and Relational Practices, The transit between visual and scenic arts. Since 2009 performs an investigation of the concept she created: Corpo Intruso [Intrusive Body] and its performativity Zuleika Brit.PROAC Award in Visual Arts 2021. Funarte Acessibilidança award 2021. SPCine Short Film Production - 2021. Co-Mentory and invited Teacher in the Professional Master in Performing Arts and Cultural Mediation, a partnership between Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena and Escola Itaú Cultural.
Alexandra Martins Costa
Pronouns: she/her; they/them; he/his. 38 years old, Brazilian.
Non-binary, mixed race and stutterer. They Investigate Memories, Ancestralities and Self-fictional accounts in the artistic creations in performance, installation, photography and video. The first solo exhibition "about times that rest" took place in 2022, at A Pilastra Gallery, in Brasília.
Taís Cabral Monteiro
Pronouns: she/her, 42 years old, from Brazil
Mini bio: Taís Cabral (Osasco, SP, 1980) is a visual artist, teacher and researcher. She lives and works between São Paulo/SP and Curitiba/PR. Since the beginning of her trajectory, dualities such as memory and city, color and space, matter and architecture, permeate her artistic procedures and poetic choices. Her series of works are based on researches about living the city as an artistic experience. She has been working mainly with painting and installation since 2001, and has participated in several exhibitions, artistic residencies and publications.
Blua
I'm Lea Arafah, also known as Blua Discórdia, I call my work Transdisciplinary, and it envolves music, sound, performance, video art, and also painting. There are storms inside my head. also sunny moments, but from time to time I change, I come out as something else everyday. This restlessness and inner movements cause the feeling of being a non- belonging body on our society, but also gives me the strength and my vision towards Art, the world and meanings beyond the words.
Felipe Rizzo Prux
I am Felipe Rizzo Prux, 42 years old, and was born in Bom Jesus, in the mountains of Rio Grande do Sul. I am autistic and HIV positive. I worked in dance and theater from 1996 to 2004, then I ventured into soundart, until I entered the film school at PUCRS (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul) as a PROUNI scholar, from the then Minister Haddad. I worked in the audiovisual area until 2014, when I migrated to São Paulo capital. Since then I distanced myself from the arts, because of the hardship of living in this profession and because the issues of autism spectrum disorder surfaced too much.
Nathielle Wougles
Nathielle Wougles, pronouns: she/her, disabled woman artist, 31 years old, mother and occupational therapist. A Master's student in Performing Arts and Cultural Mediation, I move my dreams in performance and live arts, creating fictional spaces and territories of [R]existence to denounce ableism and celebrate diabled bodies, based in experiences in Latin American social struggles.
Ana do Vale
Ana do Vale is a non-binary visual artist and art educator, with multiple disabilities and rare disease. they develop their work as a visual artist in several formats: music, photography, collage, digital illustration, poetry, animation, drawing, textile art and gouache painting. In the area of art education they have developed projects focused on cultural and communicational accessibility. this is the link to their youtube channel and to their Instagram.
Marly García Rojas
Pronouns: she/her, he /him), 27 years old, Colombian
Marly García is a dancer and performer since 2015. She studied at the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá (ASAB) 'Arte Danzario' and is currently finishing her studies at CENDA. Creator of the experimental laboratory 'FENECE' at the C.E.C 2016 of Danza Común. With the company AAINJAA she participated in various national and international t festivals such as the Festivalului International de Teatru de SIBIU in Romania and FITBO in Bogota, as well as in cultural markets and a tour in Spain, Russia, Germany, Romania and France with a street show. She was a performer in the winning work of the IDARTES 2017 dance creation grant "Las idénticas hermanas AIDS" with the collective 'La Resistencia' performing in festivals such as ' X Danza en la ciudad' (2017), 'Pliegues y despliegues' 2018 amongst others.
Tizo All
Pronouns: ele / ela - none of the previous alternatives - 1982
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My work touches the individual space as such the collective sphere. I’ve been working as a maker, and researcher, and activating points of inflexion and reflection throughout my artworks. My interest in art is likewise my engagement as a person, to keep the realm moving towards liberation autonomous thinking and destabilization of the status quo. Fuck that shit.
As a Chronically Ill person, my main concern is the monopoly of the laboratories and the manipulation of their political and economic interests.