Ricardo Muniz Fernandes from Brazil is a sociologist, cultural critic and curator. As a curator, for many years Muniz Fernandes' chief activities have been in the field of the performing arts. His projects are complex interventions in the urban spaces of São Paulo. He holds his festivals in abandoned warehouses, in public parks, workshops or garages - in search of confrontation between Brazilian history and the present, between traditional and contemporary forms of cultural articulation.