Arts
This episode includes an excerpt from Maria Thereza Alves' artist talk presented at SFU Galleries in collaboration with the City of Vancouver Public Art Program during Spill Response. Alves speaks about her project Um Vazio Pleno/A Full Void developed for Frestas Trienal 2017 that is an attempt to question the denial of the Indigenous presence in the history of the making of Sorocaba which states that one man founded the city. Since the 1980s Alves has produced a body of work that investigates the circumstances of specific localities in order to give witness to silenced histories. Her work proceeds through a process of dialogue facilitated by direct involvement in material, environmental and social circumstances, engaging spaces of agency and visibility.