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agencies about Latin American countries that were made public on a period from Conca - as she was nicknamed by the community - had had since college years. She
1948 until the end of the 20th century. I started working with archives that have been says that when she was in the Visual Arts course between 1978 and 1982, training
published about the Chile (named Proyecto Desclasificación Chile ) in the years 1999, excluded social issues. Concern over this and other factors in her life made her relate
2000 and 2001, when Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London – a fact that provided to the problem of poverty: “I am also interested in other social issues, but for me the
a favorable international intention to make these archives visible – being Chile the greatest obstacle is the distribution of income” she says.
country that had the largest volume of declassified archives But JAMAC would not be possible, she points out, if the community had not embraced
With declassified I mean that the documents the United States brought to the light on the initiative and engaged in its development. The first person who came to the
Latin America, were classified under the condition of secret and this condition, for its
time, subdivided into other as: confidential, do not distribute, prohibited or restricted neighborhood on the recommendation of a friend was the geography professor Mauro
circulation. So, conceptually, declassification means get them out of this restrictive de Castro. “I had a very big concern about asking if I was interested in people taking a
condition and make them public. “ piece of equipment that I was proposing”, she explains. Monica did not want to impose
This is part of a text Voluspa Jarpa wrote on the occasion of the opening of the herself, she wanted to be integrated with the place where she chose to live and work:
exhibition “En nuestra pequeña región de por acá” at Malba in Buenos Aires. “I always wanted to build the practices from the local needs and with the people.”
From that time Mauro has been part of a group linked to social movements called
AWARD MONTBLANC FOUNDATION OF CULTURE | PAGES 38 TO 41 Núcleo Aparecida Gerônimo and represents a kind of community leadership in the
MONTBLANC DE LA CULTURE Jardim Miriam. In preparation for the implementation of the project, Monica moved
to the neighborhood every Sunday, meeting with Mauro and the group to discuss
ARTS PATRONAGE AWARD HAS and build the idea. Thus, that project so thought out came out of the world of ideas.
ITS THIRD EDITION IN BRAZIL In 2006, when JAMAC was invited to attend the São Paulo Biennial, curated by
Lisette Lagnado, Monica met another person who would become a great partner in
maintaining the device. Under the theme How to live together, that edition carried
THE CURATORS AND CHAIRMEN OF MONTBLANC OF LA CULTURE FOUNDATION,
SAM BARDAOUIL AND TILL FELLRATH, WILL AWARD TOGETHER WITH MANAGING a great work with the suburbs, recruiting also educators who had some connection
DIRECTOR MONTBLANC BRAZIL, MICHEL CHEVAL, THIS YEAR’S PATRON: MONICA with art and culture in the marginalized regions of the city. It was then that Monica
NADOR AND JAMAC met Thais Scabio. At the time, the filmmaker was still a student: “Their job was to
exercise some experiences of sensitizing people in the community” explains the artist.
BY JAMYLE RKAIN Although engaged in art and culture knowledge, even though she lived in the
neighborhood, Thais still did not know JAMAC. The mutual meeting has generated,
Since 2016, the curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have been placed as chairmen since that year, many good fruits and new projects. Thais started setting up a movie
of Montblanc Cultural Foundation with the objective of researching and creating club to show the moviegoers some great movies that they had never attempted.
cultural strategies with the Foundation. They traveled and appointed curators from Some time later, she had a didactic proposal for audiovisual training.
various parts of the world to assist them in this task. So they formed a council. It was there that JAMAC began to offer, in addition to the graffiti, the stamp and
In Brazil, the responsible curator is Jochen Volz, director of the Pinacoteca of the other proposals of the visual arts, a dip in the world of cinema. Since then many
State of São Paulo. The network of curators is called by Curatorium and aims to young people have graduated. Monica joked that many would flee from the stamping
increase the range scale of the institution. workshop to the film workshop, and vice versa, but there was never jealousy about it.
On September 6, the Montblanc Cultural Foundation will award for the third time In these 15 years of acting of the art club in the region, Nador says that what marked
with the Montblanc De La Culture Arts Patronage Award an agent of art in Brazil for
he/she work as patron to the society. The Prize takes place in 17 countries in special her the most is the human experiences that she has acquired in the years that have
editions. The curators believe that Brazilian art has enormous potential, hence the passed: “We get huge. The diversity is very rich. The situation is very rich. I’ve learned
importance of having chosen a curator from Brazil for the Council. a lot from the people here”. She says there was a major change in the way she saw
In addition to offering an award to patrons, Montblanc Foundation is dedicated to the neighborhood in the years there: “We, in our middle class bubble, are a bunch of
investigate the emergence of young artists who are doing an interesting job in their ignorants”, she says. “People on the suburbs are very informed, very articulate. It’s
countries of operation. Those selected are provided with a commissioning grant for different than we thought, especially in the 80’s and 90’s. So much so that I came
the production of a project that is later incorporated into major art events around here in 2003, with the illusion that it would bring information and culture,”, she adds.
the world, such as Biennials. If before the artist had a somewhat colonizing look for Jardim Miriam, today she can
In 2016 and 2017, the Montblanc Prize of the Culture Arts Patronage honored, see that space also formed: “Despite my compassion, I was still very white”. Her move
respectively, the pair of filmmakers Luiz Bolognesi and Laís Bodanzky, for the project from one of the most elitist neighborhoods of the capital to one of the most remote
Cine Mambembe, and Solange Farkas, for the Cultural Association Videobrasil. neighborhoods made her see much of what she was wearing where she came from:
JAMAC “When I came here, I thought: There are really many black people in São Paulo. And
This year, the 27th global and 3rd edition in Brazil will award the award for JAMAC, it’s not that they don’t exist downtown, it’s because they’re invisible”.
Jardim Miriam Arte Clube. This project begins when the artist Monica Nador decides Today, the biggest dream of who manages the JAMAC, is to have a fixed space in
in 2003 that she needed to leave the comfort of Higienópolis and open the peripheral
spaces of the city of São Paulo. It took with him an enormous desire to make a which to have the security that will stay: “We want to buy a headquarters”, Conca
difference in the lives of people who had no access to the artistic universe of which says. What worries the most is whether they will manage to get a building to house
she was a part. all the activities they offer, given that the current one is rented but is being claimed
That was how, that same year, she joined and organized her ideas to open a space in by the owner. “We cannot dream much, but what I want is that everyone could have
the marginalized part of the South Zone of São Paulo. A space in which she could share a JAMAC on the corner of their house”, she admits. To conclude, she quotes José
with the community what she and other fellow artists learned throughout her training. Martí: “People without culture will never be free people”. That is why she believes
The decision to move to Jardim Miriam came from a questioning that Nador, or that culture is so diminished, so that the powerful deny people freedom.

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