I am Swedish-Brazilian artist and researcher based in Stockholm interested in collective acts of memory-making and belonging through site-specific art and media interventions, writing, and education. See art and exhibitions.
As a researcher, I have written extensively about media and art activism, cultural resistance, social movements, and visual politics and artistic research in contested urban, environmental, and political scenarios. See publications and presentations.
I am a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Södertörn University, where I am the Chair of Culture & Communication at EcoJust - Ecologically and Socially Just Sustainability Transformations research platform, and a co-PI of Visual Narratives and Planetary Transformations Studio, a practice-based research group in the Digital Transformations (DigiTrans) research platform.
Treading the Ground Sensibly: Reflections on Deep Memory and Embodied Artistic Research in the Mãe Preta Art Project (2024)
by Isabel Löfgren and Patricia Goùvea. In: Kaun, A. and Velkova, J. (eds.) (2024). Beyond Academic Publics: Conversations about Scholarly Collaborations with Cultural Institutions. Linköping University Press. Download PDF
The Planalto Riots: Making and unmaking a Failed Coup in Brazil (2024), Lou Caffagni, Isabel Löfgren, Gizele Martins and Paola Sartoretto (eds.), Theory on Demand #51, Institute of Network Cultures.
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What would a Swedish mine be without a party? On metals, minerals, and love during the "green" transition – Climate propaganda in The Swedish Mine advertising campaign. 22 June, 2023
In: Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Special Issue 'The Return of Propaganda', Volume 5 (2023), Issue 1 (June 2023), pp. 194 - 218. Download the article here
Semiotics of Care and Violence: Memetization and Necropolitics during the Brazilian 2018 Elections and the action #MarielleMultiplica. 14 November, 2022
In: Arkenbout, C and Sherz, L. (eds.) Critical Meme Reader 2: Memetic Tacticality, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, pp.51-73.
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The ‘cuir’ turn: Resignifying mutual aid in the struggle against trans necropolitics
Eurozine, 1 June 2022
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Swedish version "Motstånd genom överlevnad"
Ord & Bild, November 2021
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Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities (2020), Theory on Demand #38, Institute of Network Cultures, 312p.
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