Biography

Kitti Baracsi works at the intersection of art, critical pedagogy and urban research, realising collective and multimodal artistic creations. She is a Lisbon-based Hungarian critical educator, researcher and curator of community initiatives and cultural interventions, addressing urban inequalities and collective practices, as well as rethinking knowledge production. She has a background in Communication Science, Aesthetics and Pedagogy. Co-founder of the Criar Cidade Cooperative in Lisbon, as well as several other collectives. Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity (LSE Inequalities) and associated researcher at the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA). 
She has been involved in a series of collective art projects, like the Collective diary of imagination of the Mujeres errantes group, and the two residencies/documentaries Errant imaginaries 1. Weaving utopias 2. Weaving R/existences. Co-curates the project Diving in the neighbourhood with children, together with Micol Brazzabeni. 

periferias dibujadas is an improbable observatory of urban transformations and conflicts. Improbable for various reasons: it centres children's voices and interventions in collaboration with people of all ages. It realises research on the immediate urban context through art. Its situated nature allows for addressing global dynamics through local interventions.

Artistic project

The itinerant project Ri-Ver: another look at the city, is a nature-centered and art-based observatory of urban transformations. Ri/VER stands for river but also “re-ver”, i.e. revise, look at it again, see from a different angle. Imaginative thinking through the river shifts our anthropocentric, short-term understandings, thus we can see the conflictive transformations in our cities from a different angle. It interrogates conceptual and geographic barriers of urban space. Creates spaces of reflection through artistic interventions in the public space, while changing our perception through imagination. The project pushes the limits of what/who we consider artistic/artist, centring community art across all ages, including children.

Co-creates a glossary of public space as it is ‘seen by the river’, a multimodal glossary through in situ interventions and hybrid surfaces, impersonating the river, along the riverside in multiple cities, complemented with dialogic encounters with artists, activists, and researchers. 
Started in 2024 spring in Lisbon with workshops with children, since then has involved different age groups, artists and cultural professionals. As part of this experimental phase, an ecopoetic glossary on urban hospitality (Slash), and a text on imaginative methods to think about river-city relations (AnthroArt) will be published soon.

Format: imaginative walk/performance and hybrid installation

Size of audience: approx. 15 people, interpreting audience also as co-creators

Specific location: riverside and viewpoints (of every kind) to the river

Timing / duration: 1-2 hours, day or night