Eco-Critical Stories Mauricio Chades
Join us for an artist presentation by the talented Maurício Chades, a media artist and filmmaker from Brazil. Maurício Chades explores themes of anticolonial futures and queer ecologies through his unique artistic lens. In this talk, he will share how his practice intertwines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture, creating a vision of harmonious multispecies alliances. Sept 26 at 7:00pm and Sept 27 at 11:30am.
About the Artist
Maurício Chades is an artist and filmmaker from Brazil. His works in film, installation, sculpture, and performance speculate about anticolonial symbiotic futures and queer ecologies. Envisioning syntropic environments and multispecies alliances, his practice combines storytelling with restorative agriculture, composting, and fungiculture. Maurício holds a BA in Cinema Studies, an MA in Art and Technology from the University of Brasilia, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He participated in collective groups such as Espaço AVI, Kinofogo Cineclube, and NINHO - Collective for Research in Art, Interactivity, and Agroecology. His works were shown worldwide, like at Queer Lisbon, Curitiba International Film Festival, and FILE – Electronic Language International Festival. In 2019, he presented his first solo show, Pyramid, Urubu, at The Brasilia Digital TV Tower, receiving the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. In 2023, Chades was featured at the Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil. His most recent accomplishment was the first prize of the e-flux Film Award for Green Cemetery. Mauricio is currently participating in the Landing exhibition at No 9 Gardens, close to Kingston.