Paulina Almeida

Biography

Doctoral Project Title: WATER RISING: creation with vanishing landscapes and communities

Advisor Jorge Salgado Correia

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