Associação Cultural Videobrasil

This statement was made on occasion of the 18^th Festival, in the context of the event’s 30^th anniversary celebration and the artist’s participation in the Southern Panoramas competitive show. The São Paulo native discusses her early experiences with video and retraces her trajectory, rememorating pivotal moments in Videobrasil’s history. She discusses how she first became interested in the medium, in her teens, and her first production, Homenagem a George Segal, from 1985, in partnership with Walter Silveira. She also discusses the collaboration with Luciano Mariussi, which got her interested in the entirety of the video creation process. De Barros recounts her activity with video text, alongside Julio Plaza, during the early days of graphic computing. She also reflects about the connections between the tradition of concrete poetry and early experimentations with electronic image in Brazil, and about the role of video recordings in her work as a performer. Finally, she discusses her piece featured in the 2013 competitive show.