The International Brazilian Opera Company (IBOC) is a New York based non-profit organization with a mission to support the creation and development of new operatic repertoire that combines ideas from both Brazilian and international artists, while providing an educational structure for new talent to emerge.

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Joao Henrique Brandao is a visual artist form Curitiba, Brazil. He has taught painting and drawing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institute of Classical Architecture, New York Academy of Art and the Art Students League in addition to being a guest-speaker at several cultural events and private schools in South America and in the USA. Inspired by the work of the old masters, he explores the movement and the impossibility of the baroque and renaissance compositions and uses it to create artwork that masterfully combines tradition with innovation. He lives and works in NY.

Performance.

The Queue: In a capitalist world of bureacracy, the easy way out is corporate cannibalism.

Eu abraço mesmo

Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, Lívia Sá has lived in San Francisco for many years while studying Cinema Production and working with different photographers and independent filmmakers. She is currently based in Brooklyn, and is attending the Media Studies master's program at The New School and is working at various projects as a freelancer. Lívia has been concentrating on projects that explore human rights issues while focusing on documentary and experimental filmmaking. She has also been working on different projects that go beyond the conventional approach to cinema as she is interested in altering the viewer’s perception in addition to stimulating different senses.

I got my first point-and-shoot camera in 2007, when I moved from Brazil to France. Since then, I've been lucky to live in and travel through many cities, and photography has become a way for me to not only create memories, but also show my view of the world.

Baioca Filmes is an audiovisual content production company driven by and devoted to the spreading of good ideas. Among our published work are webseries produced in Brazil and in New York City. Baioca Filmes is formed by the filmmakers Thiago Mattos and Danielle Villela.

A multidisciplinary artist who explores the contemporary female+immigrant perspective on subjects such as belonging, objectification, depression, vulnerability, violence, sexual abuse, and memory, all explored using performance, photography, poetry, mixed media and embroidery.

#TakeASelfieOnMe is a durational interactive performance.

 The idea came from my observation on how people have been interacting with art. Two things sparked the conception of the performance: the relationship between the amount of time spent looking at the art versus the time spent looking at the picture of the art and how much people want to be part of that picture.

The costume is made of different mirrors where viewers are always reflected. When the viewer takes a picture, knowing or not, he/she becomes part of the art. Knowing or not, it is always a selfie.