a multidisciplinary approach

ONGOING

Syncretic Pleasures
syncreticpleasures.org
A production initiative/persona of Natalia de Campos founded in 1999, for collaboration with multiple artists

ART&COM
artandcom.org
An evolving platform for ideas and actions created by Thiago Szmrecsányi & Natalia de Campos, initially for the Jamaica Colosseum Mall, and as part of Jamaica Flux 2016, organized by Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL)

United Artists & Activists Union (UAAU)
collectivebargain.org/about
Established in 2017 in New York, during our Collective Bargain project

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS

Manifesto of the UAAU, 2019
Manifesto-performance-installation presented in Animated Objects and Resistant Bodies, April 2019.
Martin Segal Theater / Center for the Humanities / Graduate Center, CUNY, curated by Edward Miller and Valerie Tevere

Free Time in the Collective Bargain, 2018
A project of ART&COM and UAAU, presented at SEQAA’s (C)art Festival at King Manor Museum’s Park in Jamaica, Queens [PHOTO ABOVE}

Collective Bargain, 2017
collectivebargain.org
A project of ART&COM (Natalia de Campos & Thiago Szmrecsányi), in collaboration with Tracy Collins and Toya M — Presented on 14th Street, Manhattan as part of Art in Odd Places: SENSE 2017, curated by Nicolás Dumit Estevez

Re-locação: ART&COM Work Displays History, 2017
A platform for ideas and actions re-located from Jamaica, Queens to Emma Thomas Gallery in the Lower East Side, New York; and then to Emma Thomas Gallery in Epicentro Jardins, São Paulo, Brazil

Re-Location: ART&COM Work Displays History, 2016
A platform for ideas and actions re-located from Jamaica, Queens to Emma Thomas Gallery, in the Lower East Side, New York. Closing event included a walking tour to the artist studio, also in the Lower East Side

ART&COM Work Displays History, 2016
A platform for ideas and actions proposed for Jamaica Flux 2016 in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall, Queens, New York

BURN text + sound, 2013
Presented in Brooklyn, New York, at JACK. Curated by Natalia de Campos, produced by Syncretic Pleasures, performed by Felipe de Souza, Kanene Ayo Holder, Ellery Royston, Lilah Freedland, Sam Jablon, Bonafide Rojas, Natalia de Campos

A Pretty Good Future, 2012
An interactive performance-installation. Creted by Natalia de Campos and Bryon Carr, in collaboration with Thiago Szmrecsányi (space design) and Ellery Royston (music and Harp). Presented at chashama461 gallery in Harlem, New York. Performed by Bryon Carr, Natalia de Campos, Thiago Szmrecsanyi, Ellery Royston, and 5 performers.

Death & Life in the Northeast, 2007/ 2011/ 2020
Written, performed and produced by Natalia de Campos. Visual interaction by Keka Marzagão, sound design by Anne Pope. Performed at the Bowery Poetry Club with the Hourglass Group Solo Lab (2007); at SCOPE Art fair (2011); at FIRE & EARTH (2020)

insert, 2003-04
Curated by Thiago Szmrecsányi and produced by Natalia de Campos / Syncretic Pleasures.
Curated artists interacted with the Essex Street Market & vendors.
Cuchifritos gallery in the Essex Street Market, a project of Artists Alliance, Inc.

LOCAL, 2002
Organized and produced by Natalia de Campos, Thiago Szmrecsányi & Paul Clay, in collaboration with the Essex Street Market vendors.
Cuchifritos gallery in the Essex Street Market, a project of Artists Alliance, Inc.

Doppelganger, 2002
Theater production directed by Natalia de Campos; Thiago Szmrecsányi designed an interactive set (actors manipulated and rearranged the configurations of the pieces)

Platonicov, 2001
Connelly Theater, East Village, Chekhov Now! Festival — Theater production directed by Natalia de Campos; Thiago Szmrecsányi designed an interactive set (actors manipulated and rearranged the configurations of the pieces)

WALTZ #6, 2001
HERE ARTS CENTER, SoHo, New York - American Realness Festival — Theater production directed, translated and produced by Natalia de Campos, adapted from the original written by Nelson Rodrigues; musical direction by Felipe de Souza, visual design and projections by Marie Ange Bordas, lighting by Chris Weston. Performed by Natalia de Campos, Felipe de Souza, DJ Big Wiz; executive producer by Patricia Faloppa