Cao Guimarães | 13rd Festival

According to the artist, which featured two pieces at the 2001 competitive show, his works are based on error, on the experience of randomness, and on the contingencies of the world

Exergie - Butter Dance, by Melati Suryodarmo | 15th Festival

Belief in the physical body as a mirror to inner universes is what drives the performance by Indonesia’s Melati Suryodarmo, a member of the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramovic

Bare Life Study #1, by Coco Fusco | 15th Festival

“I want to prompt reflection on the state of exception that has become a part of political life.” In her Bare Life performance, Coco Fusco coordinates 50 volunteers for an urban intervention on the streets of São Paulo

Urgência Social, by Marco Paulo Rolla | 15th Festival

Tulse Luper VJ Performance, by Peter Greenaway | 16th Festival

The performance is part of the Tulse Luper Suitcases multimedia project, a reconstruction of a writer’s life. Greenaway proposes a new narrative for cinema by using public space as the setting at which the collective experience takes place

Dobra 24.9.2003, by Angela Detanico, Rafael Lain and Carlos Farinha | 14th Festival

Dobra is a collective piece created in real time, using interfaces that generate hybrid image and sound compositions live

Inês Cardoso | 11st Festival

The guest artist to the 11th edition, in 1996, Inês Cardoso discusses her video installation Daragoy, in which she exposes her own image based on the notions of affection, female hysteria, existence, and death

David Larcher | 12nd Festival

“Video is dead,” in the words of David Larcher. To the German artist, who was a guest at the 12th edition, in 1998, video has been depleted, not as a medium, but as a concept

Rodrigo Novaes | 16th Festival

Bouchra Khalili | 16th Festival

The Moroccan-born artist discusses two video programs featured at MAM-BA, as part of the 2007 Festival’s program, addressing issues such as nomadism, exile and displacement