Self-Defense Collective

About the Self-Defense Collective

Formed in 2015, Legítima Defesa is a collective of black artists / actors / actresses of poetic, therefore political, action of the image of "blackness", its historical social developments and its reflexes in the construction of the "black persona" within the scope of artistic languages . Thus constituting a dialogue with other poetic voices that have the reflection and representation of "blackness" as a theme and research.
This aesthetic guerrilla act arises from impossibility, arises from restriction, arises from the need to defend existence, life and poetics. It arises from the act of having a voice. To be invisible is to disappear, to disappear is to lose the past and interdict the future, so it is not an option.

Direction: Eugênio Lima
Artistic Core: Eugênio Lima, Fernando Lufer, Gilberto Costa, Jhonas Araújo, Luan Charles, Luiz Felipe Lucas, Luz Ribeiro, Marcial Macome, Tatí de Tatiana and Walter Balthazar.