RESIDENCY DANIELA CASTRO (BRA)
Daniela Castro (1976, Brazil) is a writer and curator, based in São Paulo, Brazil and during her residency she will start to draft the first English written ‘performative fiction’ piece based on the particularities of that language and the Scandinavian art scene.
Castro writes on the background for her residency-project in Bergen: "In a world where the Western reasoning has entered a crisis, and the border between reality and fiction seems to have become a blur, literature provides enough elasticity for writers like myself to tackle real issues of contemporary art. [...] I applied what I’ve termed ‘performative fiction’ in my last written piece, completed October 2009, which was part of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art’s exhibition titled “The Malady of Writing: a project on texts and speculative imagination”. Written in Portuguese, it deals with Global Art issues through the particularities of that language and of the Brazilian art scene. This writing process does not result in a piece with fictional content, but employs the inventive potential of language and writing themselves as a literary strategy to engage with the complexities of our mutant world."
Daniela Castro (1976, Brazil) is a writer and curator, based in São Paulo, Brazil. Castro graduated in Art History from University of Toronto (2003/Canada). She has been awarded study grants and residency fellowships at the University of Hong Kong (2002/China), Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum (2005/Italy) and the Art Gallery of York University (2007/Canada). Conceived and curated the Recombining Territories, an itinerant and interchanging exhibition that’s travelled seven capitals of Brazil (2006-2008). Curated Lights Out, the inaugural exhibtion at the Museum of Image and Sound – MIS (2008/São Paulo). Her artistic collaborations (performances and installations) include projects with David Grassi, Coco Fusco, Fred Forrest and Luiz Duva. She’s been publishing widely in national and international art publications, and taught workshops on art writing and curatorial practices throughout Brazil.