March 19, 2026, 10 am – 2.30 pm
Many thanks to the artist Dudu Quintanilha for his lecture UNSYNC and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program Art Residency at BAI.
“Unsync appears as a small discrepancy.
A moment when a norm is interrupted.
It generates a new way of resonating.
The reflex is usually to correct it.
Or even prevent it before it happens.
But as artists, we can explore that dissonance as a possibility.
I borrow the idea of unsync to look at the development of an artistic career between professionalisation and accident.
A territory where not everything is aligned.
And yet, something works.
In this talk, I want to share projects that were born from accidents and that sparked creation.
Moments that did not turn out as planned.
Mistakes that I decided not to correct and that shaped decisions.
I am not interested in criticising the professionalisation of artists.
I am interested in giving space to practices that orbit in ways sometimes perceived as out of sync.”
(Text by courtesy of Dudu Quintanilha)
Dudu Quintanilha (Bauru, 1987) is a Brazilian-Argentinean artist based in Berlin. His work unfolds between performance, video, photography, and collaborative processes, tracing intersections of lived experience, imagination, and contemporary art. Many of his projects emerge through collaboration, conceptual exploration, and embodied research, often engaging with intimacy, collectivity, and the political dimension of the body. Recent projects include Unstable Group (2024), developed with a choir in Frankfurt; Erotics in Participation (2024), commissioned by IMAI and developed with Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus; the mentoring of the residency Lagar in Portugal (2024) and the performance Sun of Tomorrow at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2025).
More information on the Dudu Quintanilha Website.
