Anaïs Vaillant is an anthropologist and artist working in the streets, on stage, and on the airwaves. She explores cultural traditions, appropriations, and inventions in popular festive events in France, Brazil, and elsewhere.

For Feral 2024, she drew on the activities of the Collectif Anonyme du Carnaval Ambulant [Anonymous Collective of the Travelling Carnival], an informal activist group that since 2009 has been working to breathe new life into contemporary carnival traditions in different social circles and to bring together so-called traditional carnivals with so-called autonomous carnivals.

In this article, we invited her to continue her reflections on the need to perpetuate the carnival experience and spread the narratives of political protest in order to change Carnival. The first part of this text was published in Feral Magazine n°3, Rituals for the City and its Fringes (page 34). Here it is in its entirety