M.ARS Virtual Women Art Museum, M.ARS Virtual Women Art Museum is a museum that operates in participatory and multimedia art, social museology and gender studies, highlighting the role of women in art.
This museum is not intended to be a static museum model for the mere dissemination of artistic content, but an interactive museum platform for online and real-time artistic production.
With the acronym M.ARS, which combines the letter "m" of Museum and the word "ars" which means art in Latin, we seek the deconstruction of the patriarchal root common place which states that "men are from Mars and women from Venus".
Promote and carry out reflections on gender and art;
Collect and incorporate virtual collections to highlight art executed by women;
Constitute a platform for training, connection and stimulation of women with recourse to participative projects of artistic creation;
Design, develop and disseminate multimedia Net art projects carried out in co-creative laboratories with women victims of gender violence;
Inform and raise awareness to gender inequality by developing artistic projects that deconstruct stereotypical and harmful gender conceptions.
Gender Equality, Digital Inclusion and Social Commitment.
These values are present in the following national and international directives:
ODS.5 for gender equality and empowerment of all women and girls and ODS.10 for reducing inequalities (UN);
UNESCO Strategy for gender equality in and through education for 2019-2025;
Action Plan for the Prevention and Fight against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (PNAVMVD) which integrates the National Strategy for Equality and Non-Discrimination 2018-2030, "Portugal + Equal" (ENIND);
National Skills Strategy, and the Action Plan for the Digital Transition (2020);
Axis I - Citizenship, of the Social Development Plan of Évora, 2019-2021.
M.ARS is a dialogical, interactive and participatory space, open and responsive to art and communication;
The project methodology of M.ARS is heir to artists such as Leslie Labowitz, creator of community performances focused on violence against women, motivating them for social change;
The methodology is characterised by being cooperative, collaborative, inclusive, integrative and of active and empathetic listening.
The team is multidisciplinary, composed of researchers in the areas of visual arts, museology, history of art, sociology and, since 2015, have been developing interdisciplinary events in the area of social art and gender studies.
The coordination of M.ARS is in charge of Aida Rechena and Teresa Veiga Furtado.
Aida Rechena, museologist, integrated researcher of CHAIA-Centre for Art History and Artistic Research of the University of Évora, and professor of museology at ULHT-Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies.
Ana Lúcia Teixeira, professor of sociology at NOVA FCSH, researcher at CICS.NOVA - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences and the operational coordinator of the National Observatory on Gender Violence (ONVG) at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon.
Carmen Cangarato, designer, researcher and operational co-ordinator at CHAIA of the UÉ.
Manuel Lisboa, professor of sociology at NOVA FCSH, researcher at CICS.NOVA, director of ONVG at NOVA FCSH, and international expert for the Council of Europe within the Task Force on Combating Violence against Women, including domestic violence.
Paulo Simões Rodrigues, professor of art history at the Department of History at UÉ, and Director and integrated researcher at CHAIA-UÉ.
Teresa Veiga Furtado, artist, professor of multimedia arts at the Department of Visual Arts and Design at the UÉ, integrated researcher at CHAIA-UÉ and collaborator at CICS.NOVA and CIEBA/FBAUL.
Lab Participants;
Social Workers, Lawyers and Psychologists.
