What is Colapso?

Colapso (Portuguese for Collapse) is a platform for artistic accompaniment created with the intention of generating critical and affective networks among artists, cultural agents and audiences. It aims to strengthen relationships among people from different contexts through creative processes, research, discussion and knowledge sharing that involves speculation, experimentation, fiction and poetics.

HOW WE COLLAPSE

  • We accompany the creative processes of contemporary artistic objects that go beyond hegemonic narratives.

  • We support scientific knowledge sharing by organizing seminars, workshops, debates and by developing publishing activities.

  • We create links that facilitate and strengthen connections between artists, curators, researchers or other critical thinkers and audiences.

  • We promote the reimagining of working conditions in arts and culture, as well as the de-hierarchization of work modes through the implementation of good associative practices.

We aim to reimagine reality by creating and producing a diverse range of artistic objects while fostering a vibrant network of artists, cultural agents and their audiences. We are committed to promoting contemporary artworks and artistic processes coming from diverse places of speech that go beyond hegemonic narratives as we believe that by challenging perspectives and encouraging dialogue we can ignite social change. We promote de-hierarchization of work modes in the arts and culture through the implementation of good associative practices as we see it as a means to shape the reality we live in towards a more inclusive shared future.

Our team

  • Lorena Tabares

    Independent researcher, curator and writer, with a focus on contemporary art, archive and performance art. Recently she was the curator of Wellenschlagen - Expanding Waves in the Mexican Cultural Institute in Vienna. Co-editor of the 15 edition (Cuerpo Pólvora) of the Terremoto magazine. Researcher of the educative programme Mesas de diálogo: Performance en revisión 1990 - 2019. Memoria y archivo desde el arte acción, la performance y la documentación en México. MORE

  • Marta Aksztin


    Graduated in Cultural Studies (Faculty of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw, Poland, 2024), ex-student of Directing and Dramaturgy (Academy of Theatre Arts in Cracow, Poland). She received production training at Forum Dança (O Curso de Gestão/Produção das Artes do Espetáculo, Lisbon 2020). Her research explores modes of collective memory and narrative construction. She develops and produces projects at disciplinary intersection of the spectrum of performativity and installation art.

  • Nicole Chattin


    Graduated in Communication with a focus on corporate communication (Universidad del Pacífico, Chile, 2014) to which have been taken in practice in different areas of marketing in companies, in addition to her experience with advertising agencies. Representative of artists in Portugal (Paula Garrido, Ignacio Kenchiton, Gerar McCarey and Fabián Ciraolo), coordinator, attaché and producer of the projects Naturaleza 3D (2019) and Andes 3D (2023).

  • Sylvia Jaimes


    Performing arts researcher with artistic practice in visual and performing arts, community and interdisciplinary collaborations. Member of Cosmos, artistic collective. PhD in Performing Arts (UL, Portugal). She was part of international artistic cooperation projects such as Sinfonía Trópico 2015, Share more 2016 and Working Voices 2013. She was an advisor in artistic pedagogy at the Instituto Distrital de las Artes (2016), Centro Ático (2015) and Secretaria de Educación (2015) in Bogotá (Colombia). MORE

  • Valentina Bedoya

    Graphic designer, graduated in design and visual communication (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellín, 2015 and Escuela Superior de Diseño de Barcelona, 2018). Works in web design, developing visual identities and creative concepts in corporate and creative contexts. In 2021-2022 participated in the social collective Urbem Forest (Lisbon).

ASSOCIATION

Colapso is a brand of Circuloscópio, a non-profit cultural association that aims to develop projects of an artistic, scientific and participative nature. Started in 2021 by a multicultural team, the association operates in the field of transnationality and interculturality, emphasising the role of global interdependencies and aiming to respond to the need to bring people from different geographical, linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds together.

We form a community of artists, curators, researchers, other cultural agents and art admirers.

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