MAV Sessions – Raquel Ermida: Art and collectivism in the city of Porto (1998 – 2013): the democratic potential of 15 years of collaborative artistic practices and their historical antecedents

Raquel Ermida is a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies at NOVA/FCSH. Her project is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and investigates the political potential generated by the more than 40 collectives of artists that emerged in Porto between 1998 and 2013. Ermida holds a master’s degree in Visual Arts – Critical and Curatorial Studies of Cybermedia from the Haute École d’Arts et de Design in Geneva. She is currently a PhD researcher at the Institute of Art History and a member of the IRPDP – Independent Research Platform and Doctoral Practice in Geneva. In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and carried out research at the Pratt Institute in New York. In 2022, she joined the research team of the IHA-Seed project Confined Artistic Practices: Resistance and Collectivism in the Covid-19 Pandemic in Portugal. She is the author of book chapters and scientific articles in international publications (Routledge, Journal of Visual Art Practice and Arte, Indiduo y Sociedad). In 2023 she co-edited an issue for the Revista de História de Arte dedicated to Fields of Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practices.