Natália Gondim | Universidade Lusófona (original) (raw)

Natalia Gondim an interdisciplinary researcher by the European Crossing the Mediterranean: towards Investment and Integration (MIM), a two-year study programme jointly offered by Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia (Venice), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Barcelona) and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier(Montpellier), in partnership with Université de Sousse and Université de Meknès.

She was awarded Erasmus Mundus Master Degree Grant for 2016-2018 intake, graduating cum laude by Ca’Foscari University with a dissertation on “The meanings of dissidence: A sociological case study of Israeli critical documentarists of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict”. She has been working on the field of documentary filmmaking as co-director of “Les Statues de Fortaleza” a documentary long-feature film selected and exhibited by international film festivals, as IOM’s Global Film Festival on Migration and Amnesty International Film for Human Rights. She is also exposing multimedia exhibitions and developing visual books concerning Palestine and Lebanon social and political contexts.

Before moving to Mediterranean region, she has been an International Relations undergraduate student at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a Communication intern at Médicins Sans Frontières. Since that early period of her career, her research focused on migration, cultural mediation, post-national identities, cultural politics, postcolonial-storytelling and communication for social change.

She is also interested in articulating contemporary art and political activism by analyzing the role of creative projects in co-creating, and, or, reshaping public policies, urban spaces, and cultural politics. Her most recent project explores artworks in Lebanon and Palestine with particular reference to an imagined collective memories of historical conflicts in the region. Also examining how contemporary art displayed on cultural spaces, artistic collectives, and museums in Lebanon and Palestine imagine a different political context for themselves. Aiming to analyze how internal and external political conflicts have been transformed by the broader context of political, mediatic, economic, and cultural conditions, this project focus on exploring the scarcely documented grassroots art collectives in multiple areas, including on both sides of the conflict.
Supervisors: Adriana Sá

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