Happened at LISA

Between the 17th and 18th of September 2024, the School of Communication and Arts of University of São Paulo will host the symposium “Corpo-archive: audiovisual practices, memories and imaginations”. The event proposes a dialogue between collaborative archival practices in Latin America, which question and reformulate the hegemonic perspectives on audiovisual memories, their circulation and access, and policies of heritage conservation.

The meeting will feature the participation of archivists, curators and researchers who will reflect on archival practices and their possible imaginations. What are the bodies of a file or more specifically a file-body? What happens if we think of archives as bodies of memories? How are the different power relations and violence inherent to its formation manifested in its marks and absences? And finally, how do smaller audiovisual archives contribute to contemporary decolonial debates about the archive?

To talk about the topic "Archives, university and social memories: Rereadings from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives", in panel IV, the symposium organization invited Prof. Rose Satiko and documentation specialist Leonardo Rovina Fuzer, from LISA-USP.

Check out the full event schedule at this link.

Registration is now open for the 1st International Seminar Afluences of the Arts from DAKAR, which will take place between September 16th and 19th, 2024, at locations below according to the schedule:

September 16 and 17 - Debate tables: Aurora Furtado Auditorium. Address: Prof. Mello Moraes avenue, n. 1721 block B, room 15, Butantã, São Paulo

September 18 - Collective visit to Museums/Exhibitions (to be confirmed)

September 19 - Film screening and debate at LISA - Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology. Address: Anfiteatro street, n. 181, favo 10 - Butantã, São Paulo 

The seminar is organized by the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE/USP), in partnership with FAPESP's thematic project Link'ArtAfricas, and supported by the French Consulate of São Paulo, Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA/USP) and Imaginary Studies Laboratory (LABI/IPUSP). 

For more information about the program and registration, click here.

By Vanessa Munhoz • LISA Communication
Published: 09/03/2024

At this "COMO VOCÊ EDITA?" meeting, we will have visual artist Marina Feldhues as a guest.

Marina is a professor and doctoral candidate in Communication at UFPE. Between 2019 and 2024, she organized the study group Anticolonial Narratives. She is the author of the books 'Catálogo' (2019), 'Photobooks: (in)definitions, stories, experiences and production processes' (2021), of the book of interviews with artists 'E Se?' (2023), and the artist's books 'My Favorite Photo' (2022) and 'Journey to Brazil 1865–1866: The Disorder of the Flesh' (2023).

In 2024, she won the acquisition award from the 13th Contemporary Photography Diary of Belém – PA, with the photocollage series 'The Meat Disorder' (2023). In 2023, she won the POY-LATAM in the Resignify Archives category and received an honorable mention at the BIFA (Budapest International Foto Awards) (2023) in the Fine-Art Collage category and at the Student World Impact Film Festival (2023).

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Speakers: Kelly Koide and Yuri Prado

Kelly Koide has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (USP), with an internship at Université Lyon I. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP, where she conducts research on the trajectory and work of Claudia Andujar and Maureen Bisilliat. Researcher at the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI – USP).

Yuri Prado has a PhD in Music from ECA-USP, with an internship at Université Paris VIII. He is a postdoctoral student in Anthropology at FFLCH-USP, having recently completed a research internship at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). His research has been dedicated to the ethnomusicological study of individuals, focusing on the figures of Julio Valverde and Charles Kely Zana-Rotsy.

The films “Jail Birds” and “Open Gasy”, directed, respectively, by post-doctoral students Kelly Koide and Yuri Prado, have in common the focus on artists from an ethnobiographical perspective. In “Jail Birds”, artist Henrietta Mantooth talks about her works, which discuss mass incarceration in the USA, in her studio in Manhattan and during the assembly of a permanent exhibition at Hudson County Community College. “Open Gasy” portrays the trajectory of Charles Kely Zana-Rotsy, a Malagasy guitarist and singer who played a significant role in the world music scene in France. With screening the two films, the directors intend to discuss the challenges of film production in a foreign country, as well as the establishment, for a limited time, of an ethnographic relationship mediated by the camera.

Launch of the film “Jijet: How we study our corners”

Wednesday, 05/15/2024, 5pm
LISA Auditorium - Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology. Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Favo 10, USP.

Synopsis:
Tekaru is a young zo’é participating in collaborative research in the context of the activities of the Iepé Institute’s Zo’é Program. He recorded and transcribed a series of songs and dedicated himself to studying them in dialogue with other young people and with his grandfather Kwa’i, explaining them carefully to anthropologist partners. The film follows this research, which involves recording, transcription and exegesis. It also addresses a fundamental stage of study that takes place “inside your chest”, when you walk alone through the woods. While we study, we must remember: never repeat a song.

After the session, a debate will take place with the presence of Zo’é leaders and the film’s directors.

Event held: CEstA (Center for Amerindian Studies), LISA (Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology) and PAM - Research in Musical Anthropology.

Direction of the film: Iepé Institute, Cuminapanema Ethno-environmental Protection Front and Tekohara Zo’é Organization.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Technical sheet
Direction and Screenplay: Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher
Coordination: Dominique Tilkin Gallois
Search: Tekaru; Kubi’euhu; Kwa’i, Kubi’e Jawaret, Hugo Prudente and Lia Malcher.
Cinematography and editing: Lia Malcher
Camera assistant: Kubi’e Jawaret
Subtitles: Hugo Prudente, Tekaru and Ke’i apo
Production: Ant de Fogo Filmes
Carried out by: Iepé - Institute for Indigenous Research and Training; FPE-CPM/FUNAI - Cuminapanema Ethno-environmental Protection Front; Tekohara Zo’é Organization.
Support: Rainforest Foundation Norway; Nia Tero.
Duration: 30 minutes

The film “São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana” will be shown on 10/05 at the Quilombo Urbano Aparelha Luzia. The free event will start at 8:30 pm and feature a debate with the protagonists and directors after the screening.

Synopsis of the film:
What do African artists who arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas dialogue—the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists who cross the ocean? Ancestry is updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be bold, to color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by artists from Togo, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola, among other African nations, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openings, contradictions and tensions.

On April 25th, the film "São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana", by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, will be shown at the Maria Antonia University Center. The exhibition is part of the second NauCine meeting, a partnership between the MariAntonia Center and the Urban Anthropology Center (NauCidades) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP, that aim to celebrate the 36 years of existence of the laboratory of the USP Urban Anthropology Center (LabNAU). The event will take place in the Carlos Reichenbach room in the Rui Barbosa building.

Schedule:

4:30 pm – Presentation of guests

5 pm - Screening of the film followed by a debate with directors, researchers and guests

Synopsis of the film:

What do African artists who arrive in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? São Paulo is the stage for a creative diaspora that builds an Afropolitan present in dialogue with a country marked by openings, contradictions and tensions.

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The film “A Câmara”, by directors Cristiane Bernardes and Tiago de Aragão, will be shown on 05/04, at 3 p.m., in the auditorium of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA). After the session, a debate will take place with both directors present.

Synopsis:
"From the depths of the Brazilian parliament, we follow female deputies doing politics. Topics such as reproductive rights, education, secular state, racism and political polarization come to the fore, as we follow these women closely in their debates and political performances.

A Câmara is an observational documentary that follows the routine of federal deputies in the 56th legislature. Filmed between May and July 2022, the film presents experiences and spaces in the Chamber of Deputies based on the presence and performances of women from different states and political spectrums exercising their mandates.”

Trailer links: vímeo e youtube  

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The film "Afro-sampas", directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Hikiji, will be screening at the Santa Reparata International School of Art, in Florence - Italy.

The screening is part of the Black Month History Florence 2024 program, which is a project founded with the aim of producing research about afro-descendant cultures.

To discover more about the film, access here: https://lisa.fflch.usp.br/afrosampas.

To know more about the BMHF project,  check out: http://blackhistorymonthflorence.com/.

A delegation of seven representatives of the Aparai and Wayana peoples are coming to São Paulo this weekend to present their songs and launch a documentary that they recently finished. Leaders and teachers in their villages of origin, in the Amazon, they live in a region in the north of Pará, in the Indigenous Lands of Parque do Tumucumaque and Rio Paru d'Este, and will travel more than three thousand kilometers, traveling by boat, plane , car and again plane.

The group will perform on two occasions: at Sesc Santo André, on Sunday (August 13th) at 2 pm, when they will present their artefacts, songs and dances, in addition to being available for a conversation with the public; and Tuesday (August 15th) at 8 pm at Cine Sesc, when the premiere of the documentary "Bibiru: kaikuxi panema" will take place. The film has as its protagonist a dog that lost his luck in hunting and portrays his owner's attempt to cure him, while teaching young people about the ancestral values ​​of his people. The story was completely filmed by directors Wayana and Aparai in the Bona village and is part of a trilogy about the indigenous food production regimes: the first deals with fishing, the second with the collection of açaí and the third with hunting.

The film's launch will feature the presence of the main indigenous filmmakers and their partners, who will answer questions from the public. The free program is part of the Indigenous August organized by Sesc-SP, an event that features around 150 activities with indigenous peoples in the capital, interior and coast of the State.

The event is organized by Sesc-SP in partnership with the Sawe institute, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology of the University of São Paulo, the Wayana and Aparai Indigenous Peoples Association, and was supported by Iepé, the Research and Training Institute Indigenous.