El Alto: Bringing together disability arts from across the Americas

El Alto: Bringing together disability arts from across the Americas

Case Study

El Alto is the British Council’s review of arts and culture in the Americas. For its second edition, the focus was on the d/Deaf and disability arts movement and ‘crip’ culture. El Alto was edited in partnership with Tangled Art + Disability (Canada) and 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos (Mexico).

Daniel Moraes

Daniel Moraes

Artist

Daniel Moraes lives and works between São Paulo and Lisbon. He has a Master's in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, with a degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Campinas (2006). Daniel works with painting, drawing and video performance. His research resides

Estela Lapponi

Artist

Estela Lapponi is an actress, dancer, creator / performer, choreographer, artistic director, producer and Brazilian video artist. Since 2006 the main areas of her artistic research as an independent artist have covered -       the speech/presence of a body with disability; -       performing practice and relational work; -