Contemporary debates
VIII International Seminar Arte!Brasileiros:
Counter-hegemonic narratives
Vitoria, Espírito Santo – 20 and 21/3, 2025
The new Contemporary Debates cycle brings to Vitória (ES) the VIII International Seminar Arte!Brasileiros: Counter-hegemonic Narratives.
Sponsored by edp, company that operates in all segments of the electrical sector, the Seminar, in partnership with the Museum of Art of the Holy Spirit (MAES), is an achievement of atmosphere and Arte!Brasileiros, through the Law of Incentive to Capixaba Culture (LICC) and the Government of the State of Espírito Santos / State Secretariat for Culture.
The International Seminar Arte!Brasileiros will hold its 8th edition on March 20 and 21, 2025, in the city of Vitória (ES), and aims to map and debate national and international counter-hegemonic narratives and practices that manifest themselves in the contemporary culture and art system. The research and curation project of the event had the collaboration of Nicolas Soares, artist, curator and director of the Espírito Santo Art Museum – MAES; Fabio Cypriano, journalist and art critic, professor in the postgraduate program in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP, where he is director of the Faculty of Philosophy, Communication, Letters and Art, member of the editorial board of Arte!brasileiros, and Patricia Rousseaux, psychoanalyst, pedagogue, founder and editorial director of the Platform and Magazine of contemporary culture and art Arte!BrasileirosSince 2010.
We live in a polarized time, both in Brazil and abroad, marked by hate speech and cultural wars, which seek to reinstate an authoritarian system of power, against all the advances achieved in recent decades, against basic principles, including the defense of racial and gender equality, the need for education and incentive laws. Democracy alone does not guarantee our achievements.
By 2022, from a national perspective, public policies supporting the arts had been destroyed. Even so, states such as Espírito Santo and Ceará took important actions, to some extent compensating for the degradation of support from the Brazilian State. Many collectives and new institutional practices sought alternative forms of action outside of public policies.
Today, there is a national project of reunion and reparation with countless social sectors that have been erased over hundreds of years.
The Seminar aims to collaborate with this project, deepening the debate on the importance of culture and art in the formation of a people, listening to the different voices involved in this construction, as well as reflecting on confronting narratives prone to setbacks, obscurantism and colonial traumas that are definitively internalized in society.
The Seminar aims to address some of the key issues of this conflict, such as a counter-offensive based on memory, healthy discourses and love as a principle. It also seeks to list decolonial initiatives in institutions, in addition to addressing the climate crisis as central to the sustainability of art and the planet, with poetry as a founding factor of culture. The event's two-day program includes workshops, special presentations, round tables, a new installation at the Espírito Santo Art Museum, created by artists Elvys Chaves and Carlo Schiavini, curated by Clara Sampaio and Nicolas Soares, and Espírito Santo music bands at the closing.
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Day 20
Morning
EXHIBITION
Location: Museum of Art of the Holy Spirit (MAES)
Working Hours: 9h at 10h
Inauguration of the installation “Free Wifi (or Intrusion)” by Carlo Schiavini & Elvys Chaves, at the Espírito Santo Art Museum, curated by Clara Sampaio and Nicolas Soares.
WORKSHOP
Location: Museum of Art of the Holy Spirit
Working Hours: 10:15 am to 12:30 pm
Places limited to 40 participants
Strategies in decolonial curation Research and exhibition projects in the area of curation have undergone important transformations over the last 15 years. They have required literacy against structural racism and a turning of the page in the way of approaching collective work, in the fight for diversity. Two illustrative cases will be discussed in the workshop.
Presentation: Deri Andrade, curator, responsible for the Afro Brazil Project, curator of the INHOTIM Institute
Mediation with the public by the curator and Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Ananda Carvalho. PhD and Master in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP (CNPq scholarship), with a post-doctorate in Contemporary Studies of the Arts from UFF.
Afternoon
SEMINAR
Location: Sonia Cabral House of Music
Working Hours: 17h at 18h
Official opening and performance by Glicéria Tupinambá, artist
TABLE 1
Location: Sonia Cabral House of Music
Working Hours: from 18 pm to 19:45 pm
Experiences of the anti-colonial struggle in the arts system: for a healthy, radical and loving counteroffensive
Here we aim to bring reports from artists, curators, and researchers who develop dissident projects, which manage to position themselves outside of rigid institutional policies and encourage inclusive thinking and practice.
Mediation: Fabio Cypriano (art critic, professor at PUC-SP)
Participants: Lia D Castro (artist, Brazil), Marcus Vinicius Sant'Ana (historian, researcher ES), Guilherme Marcondes (sociologist, anthropologist, UFRJ, SP)
TABLE 2
Location: Sonia Cabral Music House
Working Hours: from 20 pm to 21:30 pm
The challenge of decolonial struggle in institutions
The aim here is to reflect on how it is possible within the institutional field and even in “deinstitutionalized” spaces to include artists and practices that until recently had no visibility in museums, cultural centers and large exhibitions. These instruments of reparation, however, need to go far beyond mere marketing acts.
Participants: Deri Andrade (researcher and curator, Inhotim, BH); Luciara Ribeiro (researcher, Sertão Negro, Goiás); José Eduardo Santos (pedagogue, PhD in Public Health, Acervo da Laje, Bahia)
Mediation: Nicolas Soares (artist, curator, Director of the Espirito Santo Art Museum – MAES)
CLOSING SHOW
Location: Sonia Cabral Music House
Working Hours: Closing 21:30pm to 23pm
Presentation Show Fabriccio (ES)
Born in Vitória (ES), he is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and music producer. His songs explore themes such as affection, masculine sensitivity and spirituality, with influences from literature, cinema and the magic present in everyday life. He was nominated for the APCA New Artist Award (2021) and the Espírito Santo Music Award (2023) in the Black Voices Highlights category. He has performed on stages such as Favela Sounds (Brasília), Festival Path, Blue Note SP, Mundo Pensante, Virada Cultural SP and several SESC units, in addition to showcases at Sim São Paulo and Formemus (ES).
Day 21
MORNING
Location: Espírito Santo Art Museum (MAES)
Workshop: (limited to 40 participants)
Working Hours: from 10am to 12pm
For an interdisciplinary articulation in art and education An interdisciplinary dialogue between culture and education is increasingly imperative. Art has been a fundamental link in the construction of reflections on the subject, its development and its relationship with the environment. The workshop will discuss two cases of implementation of these strategies.
Presentation: Gleyce Kelly Heitor, (educator, curator) Mediation with the public by guest professor Margarete Sacht Goes. She works as Curator of the educational department at the Espaço Universitário Art Gallery (GAEU/UFES). She holds a PhD in Education from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in the research line Education and Languages.
AFTERNOON
SEMINAR
Location: Sonia Cabral Music House
Working Hours: from 17 pm to 17:30 pm
Official Opening: repeat institutional video, and thanks
Opening
Working Hours: from 17h30 to 18h30
Malcolm Ferdinand Presentation The environmental crisis at the edge of civilization Martinican writer and thinker will speak about the importance of not dissociating the ecological issue from the colonial issue, showing to what extent the destruction of the environment is linked both in its origin and in its harmful consequences to the colonial legacy, proposing solutions for the storm in which we find ourselves.
TABLE 3
Working Hours: from 18h30 to 19h45
Potential miseducation: “To unlearn is to return to the initial refusal of dispossession and the world in which it originated and to bring that moment into our present, rather than seeking future and better anti-imperialisms”, argues artist and academic Ariela Aïsha Azulay. This panel seeks to bring about a relevant debate regarding the role of education, through projects that question the formal strategies of this field. Mediation: Gabriela Leandro Pereira (Gaia) (architect, professor, curator) Participants: Horrana de Kassia (Instituto Moreira Salles, SP); Gleyce Heitor (curator, professor, Inhotim, MG); Napê Rocha (Researcher, ES)
TABLE 4
Working Hours: from 20 pm to 21:30 pm
“Art is the conversation of souls, art feeds life”: Nego Bispo's phrase guides this last panel, echoing his thought that art cannot be a commodity. Bringing together artists and curators, this panel seeks to outline a contemporary panorama of counter-colonialist artistic poetics.
Mediation: Patricia Rousseaux (editorial director) arte!brasileiros, educator, Brazil) Participants: Sandra Gamarra (artist, Peru); Exclusive Testimony Kiluanji Kia Henda (artist, Luanda); Luciano Feijão (artist, ES);
Closing ceremony
Working Hours: 21:30pm to 23pm
Exclusive Testimony Rosana Paulino (artist, Brazil)
Show Presentation Douglas Germano (SP)
Douglas Germano is a composer and guitarist who has been active in the music scene since the 1980s. With five albums released — Duo Moviola (2009), Orí (2011), Golpe de Vista (2016), Escumalha (2019) and Partido Alto (2021) —, his work encompasses samba and its branches. He was the musical director of the Teatro X Company, writing soundtracks for nine shows, including Caligula (2002), which earned him the Shell Award for Best Original Soundtrack (2003). Finalist for the 23rd Brazilian Music Awards as Best Samba Singer for Orí, won the 2016 Multishow Award in the Song of the Year category with “Maria de Vila Matilde” and was a finalist for the Latin Grammy in the Best Song in Portuguese Language category.
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