Notes on Travecacceleration

Ode is Brazilian and is based in São Paulo. She/they are 22 years old, work as a stylist, writer and independent curator and were the founder of the extinct digital platform focusing on Afro-diasporic and African artistic productions Projeto Dúdús. In the fashion and art industry, over the past three years, she/they have collaborated with companies such as Dazed, The Perfect Magazine, Nataal, BRICKS Magazine, UNDER PRESSURE MAGAZINE, Cultural Bulletin, Bog, Bubblegum Club Magazine, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, Google, Red Bull, artists like Tabita Rezaire, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Samuel de Saboia, Urias, Rodrigo Sombra, Jacob Ace, Nixon Freire, Vitor Duarte, among others.

Aun Helden is a Brazilian transdisciplinary artist who works with multiple media such as performance, prosthetic incorporation, video, sound and image. She develops the creation process of a new body’s imagery, creating fictions and languages ​​that escape from the human and binary expectations, all aligned with her identity semiotic and epistemological research.

Bruna Kury is an anarctransfeminist, performer, visual and sound artist. In her works she focuses on overlapping questions regarding gender, class and race (against the current heteronormative patriarchal cistem and structural class oppression and WARFARE). She is currently investigating postorno sonorities and the creation of objects, functioning as ramifications of her performances. She has participated in Capacete Artistic Residency in Rio de Janeiro, Comunitária in Argentina, Abnormal Festival in Mexico, engaged in the organization of the póspornôpyrata Artist Residency in Fortaleza (CE, Brazil) and performed in the Festival Libres y Soberanas aka Performacula in Quito, Ecuador. Recently she was in the residence of Pivô Pesquisa Ciclo II (2020).

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro is a visual artist, macumbeira and psychologist (CRP 06/162518), graduated from Federal University of Espírito Santo. Currently a master’s student in the Clinical Psychology program at PUC-SP under the guidance of Profa. Dr. Suely Rolnik. She lives the macumbaria like a way body necessary for the escape and refresh/rest  to happen. She dribbles, incorporates and dives in Bantu diáspora, and assumes life as a perishable place of freedom.

Jota Mombaça is a non-binary bicha, born and raised in the northeast of Brazil, who writes, performs and investigates on the relations between monstrosity and humanity, kuir studies, de-colonial turns, political intersectionality, anti-colonial justice, redistribution of violence, visionary fictions, the end of the world and tensions among ethics, aesthetics, art and politics in the knowledge productions of the global south-of-the-south.

Maria Clara Araújo is a transactivist and parliamentary advisor to Erica Malunguinho MP for PSOL/SP, graduated in pedagogy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo and researcher in curriculum theory with emphasis on anti-racist and decolonial pedagogies.

Sumé Aguiar is a brazilian artist, filmmaker and transmutant. She develops her experimentations in performance, audiovisual and object construction. She graduated from the Oi Kabum school of art and technology and is a graduate student in Cinema and Audiovisual at UFF. Currently her research is directed towards the investigation of the shock of her corporeality in relation to the physical and immaterial spaces of the colonial constructions. Through the resumption of  her ancestry, she works on memory, the subversion of symbols, ways of being in the civilized and institutional field, manifesting her own presence as a trans and indigenous identity in an urban context.

Urias (Uberlândia, 1994) moves issues of gender, politics, history and semiotic studies into the music industry in Brazil.