Coalition-in-process: strategies for activating the Arquivo Davida

Abstract

In this essay we share the processes of collaboration in visual arts and memory through which we have engaged with the Coletivo Puta Davida. Among the potentialities and contours of the alliances, we highlight the importance of critical reflection and an interrogative attitude, from the positionalities of the world we inhabit, as a key element for consolidating coalition strategies. We understand that the alliance with the movement must be woven relationally between knowledge and lived experience. Efforts must converge to enhance the vocalities of the activism of the prostitutes’ movement. Through artistic devices that reach and circulate in different social spaces, we have developed, in partnership with members of the Coletivo, activations of the documentary content of the Arquivo Davida that can contribute to breaking down stigma, building empathy, and making progress in the macro and micro-political fields.