The Materiais Diversos Festival promotes the meeting of different audiences and imaginaries around the arts (dance, theatre, music and performance) with thought, questioning actuality and fostering cultural participation as a condition for citizenship. Born in Minde, in 2009, it spread to Alcanena and Cartaxo (in 2013) and became one of the most representative projects for programming outside the large centres in Portugal, attempting to think and act from the places it originates. It had been occurring annually until 2017 and became a biannual event starting with its 10th edition in 2019.
From the 5th to the 15th of October 2023, the Festival Materiais Diversos will be in Alcanena and Minde with a program of dance, theater and music shows, installations and conversations. Slowing down and making people, places and processes visible are the mottos of the 12th edition of the festival.
Clara Amaral (Fundão, 20/12/1984) works with text and performance. Based on
interdisciplinary artistic practice, her work endeavours to expand existing modes of
existing ways of reading, writing and publishing. Central to her artistic practice is
the performative aspect of writing and language.
Clara Amaral graduated from SNDO (Amsterdam) in 2013 and completed her MA at the Dutch Art Institute (Amsterdam) in 2019. In 2021/2022 she received the Kunstenaar Start scholarship from the Mondriaan Funds. Her project “She gave it to me I got it from
her” was supported by the Mondriaan Funds Publication grant.
Since October 2022 she has been part of the editorial team of the newspaper Korea.
Her work has been presented in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France and Norway.
Clara Amaral is represented by the Ellen De Bruijne PROJECTS Gallery in Amsterdam.
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