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Carolina Rodrigues de Lima
Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha

Orality and Listening as an Ethical Practice at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum

This text analyses the deinstitutionalization of Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric hospital (2021–22) and the legacy of Stella do Patrocínio — a Black woman institutionalized there for thirty years. It examines how her falatório inspires museum practices, anti-asylum art, and ethical reckonings with Brazil’s eugenicist past through collaborative curatorial and community-based approaches.
Title
Orality and Listening as an Ethical Practice at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum
Author(s)
Carolina Rodrigues de Lima
Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha
Identifier
Description
This text analyses the deinstitutionalization of Colônia Juliano Moreira psychiatric hospital (2021–22) and the legacy of Stella do Patrocínio — a Black woman institutionalized there for thirty years. It examines how her falatório inspires museum practices, anti-asylum art, and ethical reckonings with Brazil’s eugenicist past through collaborative curatorial and community-based approaches.
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Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
October 7, 2025
Subject
psychiatric deinstitutionalization
falatório
museum ethics
anti-asylum art
Black feminist poetics
institutional memory
collaborative curation
Rights
© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Language
en-GB
page start
269
page end
280
Source
Stella do Patrocínio, Falatório/Chatter, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel, Cultural Inquiry, 35 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 269–80