Mauricio Dias and
Walter Riedweg
Interdisciplinary Visual Artists
By
Chris Kreutzer & Nino Silva
Artist Biographies
• Mauricio Dias
• Brazilian
• Rio de Janeiro, 1964
• Visual Art
• Walter Riedweg
• Swiss
• Luzern, 1955
• Theater and Music
• Interdisciplinary Artists
• Interdisciplinary: of or
relating to more than one
branch of knowledge.
• Video Installations
• Visual Arts/Video
• Theater/Performance and
Audio/Music
List of Projects
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Cada coisa seu lugar. Outro lugar, outra coisa
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Paradiso Cansado (Exhausted Paradise)
2009
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
O Jardim / The Garden
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Dona Marta (nocturno I)
2009
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Dona Marta (nocturno II)
2009
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Dona Marta (diurno)
2009
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Woodcuts (Funk Staden)
2008
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Woodcuts (Funk Staden)
2008
Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
Egg series
2006
FunkStaden, 2007
Dias and Riedweg constructed a site-specific three screen
video that referenced its palatial environment by referring
to the colonialist mentality of 18th-century Germany.
FunkStaden is a three screen video projection that begins
with images from a book published in 1557 by Hans
Staden. Staden (c. 1525 –c. 1579) a German soldier and
mariner, who made two voyages to South America in
Spanish or Portuguese ships
- Graham Coulter-Smith
Key Points: What its about
Based from Hans Staden’s book about Portuguese natives
and their “savage” ways…
Staden wrote about the practices of the natives giving the
perspective of unruly persons who engage in acts like
cannibalism giving Europeans more opportunity to use
violence against the natives.
They compare the encounter told by Staden to the “Funky”
culture of Rio de Janeiro today.
The comparison between 1557 and today can be seen by the
use of Staden’s wood carvings juxtaposed with video
recorded in 2007.
Os Raimundos, os
Severinos e os
Franciscos
This work addresses issues related to housing, immigration and urban
space. Were invited to participate in the project, northeastern
immigrants working as janitors and caretakers of residential buildings
in Sao Paulo, with the proposal that their workplace and residence in
the building. Designed for the 24 Sao Paulo Biennial, whose theme
was cannibalism, the paper discusses cannibalism ethics governing
relations between social classes in the state capital. The representation
of the cramped closets, garage inhabited by porters worked as a
metaphor of social invisibility of this group.
Key Points: What its about
- Extension of social cannibalism project theme
- Sao Paulo Immigrants
- Urban space: Janitors in Residential Buildings
- Mauricio Dias & Walter Riedweg
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What we think