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Join us for an afternoon of Brazilian food, cartonera construction, and performance!

In the Courytard, children and adults will print and decorate their own cartonera covers, binding them together with a selection of children’s stories by local writers, and take home a unique memory of their visit to the museum. Cartonera are small-scale publications with covers made from salvaged cardboard, each one printed, painted, and/or collaged by hand. The form originated in Argentina in the 1980s and has spread around the world, providing artists, storytellers, and poets with an alternative form of distribution and free or cheap access to their works for those who might not otherwise have it.

The Construction, Occupation exhibition, opening May 4, will present the work of 24 contemporary artists and collectives, including cartonera by the Brazilian collective Dulcineia Catadora. This workshop with Cartonera Santanera is a full-body experience: their lino-press cartonera covers are printed with custom presses that you rock, ride, and squeeze.

There will be a performance in the Amphitheater by Cora Laszlo. Her piece,  Deixe-me Inventar (Let me Invent), was inspired by the black and white lines of the Argentine cartoonist Quino and transformed into the three-dimensional space of movement, color, and dance. The performance considers humans and relationships, and the many possibilities of creating singular and collective pathways through a mobile and changeable environment where the dance takes place with all present.

Santanera Cartonera was established in 2012 as a publisher of poetry anthologies and other books. The collective has previously led workshops in Los Angeles and Santa Ana, including at UCLA.

Cora Laszlo is a Brazilian dance maker, teacher, and researcher currently based in LA, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in cultures and performance at UCLA. Her practice focuses on dance improvisation, presence studies, and critical pedagogy. Cora’s work is based on the Klauss Vianna Technique—a Brazilian dance and somatic education methodology. While in Brazil, Cora established a career as a choreographer and dancer, receiving grants to develop her projects and collaborating with multiple artists. In 2018, she moved to New York, where she performed at venues like Movement Research at Judson Church, MR Open Performance, Triskelion, La Mama, Fi:Af, and ¡Spontaneous Combustion!, and received the LEIMAY Arts in the Community Garden Fellowship and City Artist Corps Grant. In dialogue with her artistic career, Cora is a dance scholar, holding a B.A. in Dance and a Licentiate degree in dance teaching from Unicamp (Brazil), a specialization degree in Klauss Vianna Technique from PUC-SP (Brazil), and an M.A. in performance studies at NYU. Cora is the author of Outros Caminhos de Dança, a book about the Klauss Vianna Technique. Her last solo, “Gambiarra,” has been performed in NY, LA, and São Paulo.

Part of the “Being Human Festival US,” running April 14–28, “Obscured Landmarks” is one of 16 community events across the country supported by the National Humanities Center. This festival celebrates the humanities’ ability to deepen our understanding of ourselves, connect us to each other, and shed light on today’s world.

Photo courtesy of Santanera Cartonera