Conversation between Margarida Mendes and Nithya Iyer.

Margarida Mendes is a Lisbon-based curator and researcher exploring the overlap between cybernetics, ecology and experimental film. Her personal research investigates the dynamic transformations of the environment and its impact on societal structures and cultural production. Through her collaborative practice, programming, and activism, Margarida enacts alternative modes of education and political resilience. In this talk, Margarida discusses the idea of ‘curatorial rhizomes’ as spaces in which different elements are interwoven and disseminated to a plurality of audiences across transdisciplinary and multisensory mediums. Other subjects discussed include: the importance of care in facilitating collective spaces of affect, how ritual has come to play a role in her approach towards imagining collective modalities, and the significance of feminist approaches to ecological inquiry.

Margarida Mendes is a researcher, curator and ecologist, exploring the overlap between systems thinking experimental film, sound practices and ecopedagogy. She creates transdisciplinary forums, exhibitions and experiential works where alternative modes of education and sensing practices may catalyse political imagination and restorative action. Mendes has been long involved in anti-extraction activism and ecopedagogy, collaborating with marine NGOs, Universities and institutions of the art world.

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