SELF-UNCENSORED

On Self-Censorship in Art

“Censorship within a democracy is often self-imposed by the individual; the fear of crossing invisible border lines comes from within.”
Natalia Kaliada, Belarus Free Theatre

Self-Uncensored is a project that challenges the artistic community to reflect on the various ways censorship can operate in contemporary society and to develop projects free from self-inflicted oppression, allowing for the expression of uniqueness, risk and divergence.
It proposes a program designed to provoke, investigate and implement conditions for the true exercise of freedom, often limited by self-controlling internal mechanisms of adaptation to uniform institutional support systems, market pressures or fear of potential cancellation by the community.

It is aimed at the entire thinking sector (regardless of whether they work in the arts, institutions or creators) who want to contribute to a radical change in this paradigm, through research processes free from external and internal pressures, while maintaining a focus on reflection and disruption.

The process has a mentoring project oriented by creators from countries under censorship or by creators who have been censored in some way, artistic residencies, meetings, talks or exhibitions.

Let's summon methodologies and create awareness-raising circumstances that promote courage and freedom of expression in the arts, subverting the limits of current conventions.

Director: Tânia Guerreiro
Mentors: Sepideh Khodarahmi (Iranian) and Maikon K (Brazilian), Georg Bütow (German), Hadar Morag (Israeli) (in development)
Creators: Natacha Campos and Izabel Nejur (in development)
Production: ORG.I.A
Support: Espaço do Tempo, Duplacena, Teatro Ibérico, Rua das Gaivotas 6, CPCB, Trust Collective, Queer Art Lab, Alkantara
Institutional support: Lisbon City Council - Culture and Portuguese Republic - Culture I DGARTES - Directorate-General for the Arts

Map of influences: George Lugg, Mei Lui, Wu Quin, Rui Catalão, Ana Borralho... (in development), Pedro Barreiro, Margarida Chambel, Isabel Costa

Photo: Ema Ramos

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