Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula (Brazil and Canada)

KADIJA DE PAULA & CHICO TOGNI are a duo of Brazilian/Canadian artists who create situations and happenings that question the value of resources and social practices. 

They combine food, text, sculpture and performance to create “events” and social experiences that take place in structures and functional objects they build with found resources and materials, avoiding the use of things that should not have been created or that will soon be depleted. 

Interested in degrowth as a political and economic movement that can keep us going on as a society, Kadija and Chico research habits and processes of consumption, disposal, recycle, and social assistance to make self-organizing and alternative economical experiments that challenge how we consume, accumulate, exchange, share, and waste an abundant surplus of resources.