Biography
Paulina Almeida is an artist working on body storytelling. Focusing on performance art she produces large-scale public site-specific works. She works on an edgy curatorial line inviting underground and political artists from dance circus, performance electronic music and digital art artists from all over the world to create and show at several events. She worked across scales, ranging from performance on architectural sites and education on street art. Her work incorporates a mixture of environmental, feminist and post-colonial themes that bring contemporary life's political and personal spheres into proximity. She graduated on Jewelry design, post-graduated in Anthropological Theater and Environmental Curatorial practices, holds a Master's degree in science Education and attends Phd in Artistic Creation. Currently is the coordinator from Agueda municipality art residences, and the Marrakesh Art Festival curator in Marrocco. She created LAMB Land Art Moving Biennial and Diagonal an Art Biennial on Bike along Europe.
Doctoral Project
Title
WATER RISING: creation with vanishing landscapes and communities
Advisor
Abstract
Water Rising artistic project is based on creating landscapes and communities, which are disappearing due to rising water levels. Develops from the practical research and implementation of artistic projects, which I have been developing since 2016, in the Aveiro region, as an artist and curator. Part of the intention is to – internalize – the role that memory plays in constructing the meaning of my identity and how this identity of remembrance, is something shaped by experience, history and knowledge of our bodies. It begins with a cycle of performances inserted in the territory of the Aveiro salt flats, dialoguing between the rise in water levels and the preservation of local memories and the creative results that may arise from these creative generators. The objective is to develop a performative methodology, adaptable to different territories, to raise awareness and intimately involve the public in the co-creation of new creative narratives about climate change and the creation of the contemporary art museum in Tuvalu, the first nation to disappear due to rising water levels.
Keywords: Memory; Stories; Corporealization; Fading landscape; Neonarrative
