Writer and curator Filipa da Rocha Nunes explores the intersections between writing, curating, visual research, and poetry. Starting from a central question — does she write to curate, or does she curate as an excuse to write? — the lecture approaches language not only as a way to communicate, but as a material for artistic and curatorial experimentation.
Moving between words, images, maps, and memories, Nunes shares methods that shape her practice: repetition, poems created through Google Maps and meant to be walked, and an understanding of land as something that holds and carries memory. Through these processes, research becomes a poetic gesture, allowing stories, territories, and possible futures to be rearranged through language. Rather than separating disciplines, the lecture looks at what happens when they overlap: curating becomes a form of writing, writing becomes a method of research, and language becomes a space for information, imagination, and subtle spells to coexist.
Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies · Brown University · Providence
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