CAPACETE

The 2019/20 participants: Margarita Athanasiou, Alkisti Efthimiou, Kelly Tsipni-Kolaza

The activities of CAPACETE reflect its long-term interdisciplinary initiatives as a mobile and independent art space. CAPACETE facilitates the research, contacts and documenting of aesthetic, cultural, social and political processes in Brazil and in other South American countries, establishing also dialogues with international contexts outside the continent. The political, historic, urban, topographic, environmental and social contexts of South American cities provide vital laboratories in which to probe and create within the continent’s complexities.

CAPACETE projects depart from the assumption that the most important moments happen in the “in-between spaces” and “in-between times” and so, they present themselves in actuating and unstable ways, therefore being unpredictable and uncontrollable. The question of how to build perspectives for exchange of knowledge in a non-linear and non-hierarchical way, continuously, informs many of its programs; considering as of vital importance not only to represent and promote the continuing developments in the language of art, but also to provide a platform to organize and document the many involved author’s production. CAPACETE aims to facilitate and to create productions that are bursting with the idea of a permanent space. The interest is the space between the gallery and the city as urban history, in its multiple manifestations and functions as a discursive platform of the curatorial proposal, building a lively dialogue with its participants.