For Episode 3 of MAFF Tour Colombia, we meet with Bogotá's Juan Daniel Velásquez aka. Ponyboy who brings ceramic installations to life through experimental drag shows and communal spaces to create and share knowledge to empower the queer community.
Talk about ZERO waste.. on Episode 2 of MAFF Tour Colombia, we head to Bogotá to catch up with Viasus aka ALTABASURA. Altabasura challenges fashion norms by visiting the city’s landfills with local models to create tailor made designs directly on their bodies. Viasus’ work is raw and questions industry standards as to what defines fashion? What defines waste?
In this season of MAFF Tour, our travels take us to Bogotá, Colombia to catch up with a few incredibly talented creatives who give us a glimpse into their practice and culture. We catch up with Pantera, an afrobody dancer, DJ and icon of the Colombian ballroom scene.
Gean intertwines social issues in Rio’s favelas with digital futurism. His mission is to solve the injustices that his community faces with technology. Episode 5 features digital artist, Gean Guilherme, born in Santo Amaro, a favela in Southern Rio. Gean works within the NFT space having started a production company called 2050. 2050 intertwines social issues in Rio’s favelas with digital futurism. His mission is to solve the injustices that his community faces with technology, which he believes is our best bet to face the blemishes of inequalities that exist in our world. Camera Assistant: Hud Figueiredo Driver: Alan Lima
In this season of MAFF Tour, our travels take us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to catch up with a few incredibly talented creatives who give us a glimpse into their practice and culture. Episode 4 features visual artist, Tainan Cabral born and raised in Senador Camará, West side of Rio. Cabral's work is abstract and intensified by his usage of a vibrant color palette. Tainan uses art as an intervention on urban landscape around his neighborhood such as painting on walls, barricades, flowerbeds, energy boxes, and more. “Dubism is the synthesis of what art is for me. Just as a dub is born from a song, a work is born in the process of remixing the real image into something idealized. Transmuting reality with visual effects.
In this season of MAFF Tour, our travels take us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to catch up with a few incredibly talented creatives who give us a glimpse into their practice and culture. Episode 3 features multidisciplinary artist, Raphael Cruz born in Irajá, North Zone of Rio. Cruz experiments with street graffiti and plastic arts, intertwining the African diaspora with the street of Rio de Janeiro. Camera Assistant: Amanda Nunes Driver: Alan Lima
In this season of MAFF Tour, our travels take us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to catch up with a few incredibly talented creatives who give us a glimpse into their practice and culture. Episode 2 features stylist and researcher of Cool Hunter Favela, Rafaela Pinah who intertwines the social behavior and trends coming out of the Favelas in Rio with high fashion. Born in the West side of Rio, Pinah pulls references from modern Brazilian history, from music to literature, bringing important symbolism to her productions in order to break stereotypes and standards about the aesthetics of the favelas. Camera Assistant: Amanda Nunes Driver: Alan Lima
In this season of MAFF Tour, our travels take us to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to catch up with a few incredibly talented creatives who give us a glimpse into their practice and culture. Episode 1 features contemporary dancer Hiltinho Fantastic who specializes in “Passinho Foda” — a style of dance that originated from the favelas of Rio in the early 2000s. In 2013, Hiltinho won the Passinho battle on the TV series, Caldeirão do Huck. He currently tours the world as a member of dance troupes Cia REC and Cia Suave, performing and teaching the art of Passinho. Camera Operator: Filipe Cordon Producer: Mariana Santos Camera Assistant: Hud Figueiredo Driver: Alan Lima