Spring Seminar “Traumatic Landscapes”, Escola das Artes, Porto, Portugal, 2022

There are places around the world on the brink of disaster, from nuclear sites to war-torn regions. But what stories and secrets lie hidden behind the veil of conflict or tragedy?

In conversation with curator Luiz Camillo Osorio, Alice Miceli explores narratives behind war and conflict photography and how it can be used to capture moments that may otherwise go unseen. She looks at the contrasting approaches of two renowned photographers, Robert Capa and An-My Lê, in terms of capturing the action versus gaining a broader perspective. Alice then relates these issues to her own work by examining minefields and Chernobyl, projects that raise questions about different impenetrable spaces and how the medium of photography can be used to tell their stories.

Key moments:

• The most heavily mined place on Earth - 25:47

• The convention of war photography - 28:11

• Contaminated landscapes - 40:26

• What a contaminated landscape means for non-humans - 41:17

Alice Miceli and Thyago Nogueira, director of the Contemporary Photography Department at the Moreira Salles Institute and editor-in-chief of ZUM magazine, talk about photography, radiation, invisibility, minefields and pandemics, and the relationship of these subjects with the artist's work.

The Culture and International Relations Center of CEBRI promotes the live debate "3 Generations, 3 Enemies - A conversation about arts, human rights, and democratic values" with the participation of: Alice Miceli (Visual Artist), Carmela Gross (Visual Artist), Rosângela Rennó (Visual Artist), Ambassador Marcos Azambuja (CEBRI), Evangelina Seiler (CEBRI) and Carla Duarte (CEBRI)

Marcantonio Vilaca Prize, Rio de Janeiro, 2017

Produced by Arte1 channel, the series "Olhar" proposes a dive into the poetic universe of contemporary Brazilian artists. The documentary presents the influences, trajectories, and creative processes of artists.

Video produced by the Bemis Center while Alice Miceli was an artist in residence in their program, developing the conceptual frame and preparatory work to start "In Depth (minefields)".

In her work in Chernobyl, the nature of the visual and its borders were explored to show how radiation escapes visibility while defining that environment. If a place does not reveal itself in the visual, the question then was how to look. By what means? The poetic as well as the physical operation of that work needed to reside in the capturing of the image, in the impression of a physical impact created by the means of radiation itself, which revealed a pervasive but hidden reality.

Continuing this theme of places that are impenetrable and inaccessible, Alice worked in minefields across the globe. Unlike the visual impenetrability of Chernobyl, the inaccessibility of such spaces is related to the depth of the actual space that is to be traversed and depicted in the image.

This video highlights the start of her research and the connections, as well as differences, to her work in Chernobyl.

Artist Panel featuring José Falconi (moderator) and panel participants Amalia Pica, Alice Miceli, and José Gabriel Fernández to discuss the interconnections between artistic practices, curatorial research as well as diversity and pluralism in the contemporary art of Latin America. This event is presented by Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History (HESCAH) Lecture and inspired by the exhibition Plural Domains: Selected Works from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Collection curated by Jesús Fuenmayor.

This video showcases artist Alice Miceli's journey through areas affected by landmines in Antioquia, particularly around Medellin. The region has a political history dominated by FARC, who used landmines as a defense strategy. As of 2015, a systematic identification of explosives had not been completed.

Miceli collaborated with the HALO Trust Demining Program in Colombia to document the affected area. The video was commissioned by the Pipa Prize. The exact location of the recording is Camino los Mesones, vereda El Palmar, municipio Nariño, departamento Antioquia.

This video presents the first series of Alice Miceli's "In Depth (minefields)" project as it was displayed at the Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) for the PIPA Prize, in Rio de Janeiro. The series of photographs showcases a minefield in the countryside of the Battambang Province in Cambodia, with eleven successive shots that transition across the field.

Miceli worked in collaboration with the Cambodian Mine Action Centre and Victim Assistance Authority, the governmental organization in charge of the national demining program in Cambodia.