There is, from the beginning and ever more strongly, an opposition between the idea of the University and the local community. There is also a permanent conflict between the school and the idea of artistic practice. In this project we demonstrate that these oppositions and conflicts can be reset from an intercultural action.

The two authors are part of Identidades [Identities] — intercultural movement, a collective that promotes human relationships between Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal. In this “movement”, intercultural laboratories emerge in which experiences centered on cultural and artistic practices are shared, using various technologies, from the most ancient to the most recent. Artists, art students and teachers, schools, and real communities are involved in practices ranging from ceramics to web publishing. This involvement evokes new ethical, theoretical, and instrumental questions.
It was from the practices of this movement that many of its members have become researchers. They formed a collective of informal research and, simultaneously, took the investigation in the 'formal' research centers. They assume the contradictions and subvert research practices rescuing the meaning, increasingly abandoned, of the human.

We find ourselves suspending our European and ethnocentric identities when confronted with the communities fighting for the recognition of their culture, for better living conditions, and whose activities are rooted in resistance and in the struggle for their identity. In the displacement to these contexts, as artists and researchers, we feel the discontentment with our own art and society, even of a post-colonial world which, most of the times, interferes with the communities in a colonial manner; the same world that promotes globalization, resigning these communities to oblivion.

The debate and research on these issues is closed in pretentious universalism and blocks the participation of excluded communities in this field and in its confrontation. It is here that, for us, returns the problem of liberation in the sense of opening a discussion and of including these communities, through a platform of poetic translation that allows its presence in the clarification of an urgent agonistic pluralism.

We try to bring inside the University what is out of it. We also seek, within the critical framework of the University itself, taking for example the concept of University of Excellence, to replace the empty void of excellence for thought (Readings, 1996). But add, or refund, the plan of the sensible.

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