Happened at LISA

Trajectories Cruzadas brings together photographs by Claudia Andujar, Lux Vidal and Maureen Bisilliat

For the first time, the exhibition presents the work of three women photographers who are involved in the defense of indigenous peoples and riverside and country communities 

USP's MariAntonia Center opens on October 19th, at 4 pm, the exhibition Crossed Trajectories with works by Claudia Andujar, Lux Vidal and Maureen Bisilliat, with approximately 300 photographs. It is curated by anthropologists Sylvia Caiuby Novaes and Fabiana Bruno. Entry is free.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, photographs of three European women: Swiss Claudia Andujar, German Lux Vidal and English Maureen Bisilliat. They are women whose careers were marked by the experience of the Second World War, having lived in many countries and mastering several languages. In Brazil, similar trajectories intersect, seeking and revealing a Brazil little known until then by Brazilians.

Anthropology, Performance and Drama Center (NAPEDRA/USP)
Center for Afro-Brazilian Arts at USP 

Hybrid Event

Link to all sessions: https://meet.google.com/huf-vvvo- ckh

Programming

October 14th (Monday)
– Online programming via Zoom

● Afternoon (2:00 p.m.):
o Welcome from the organizing committee
John C. Dawsey, Pâmilla Vilas Boas, Fernanda Marcon.
○ Canoe Path: between mirrors and water roots (conversation circle)
Carlos Corrêa Praude (UNB) Rita de Almeida Castro (UNB; NAPEDRA/USP) (remote).
○ Falling Bodies: A film, a massacre, a cyborg and the spiraling time of performance
Scott Head (GESTO/UFSC) (remote)
○ Around the World (Short Film Screening, 14’12)
Alice Villela (NAPEDRA/USP) (remote)
○ Wanderings of Faith (Documentary Screening, 46’)
Carlos Alberto Corrêa Moro (UNICAMP; NAPEDRA/USP) (remote)

The event aims to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the essay "Techniques of the Body" (1934) by French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950). The event's purpose, not only is to commemorate the text, but also to encourage a reinterpretation of it by the Brazilian public. Often cited in Brazil as inspiring the anthropology of the body, the essay is also considered the founding father of the anthropology of technology in France. This second line of research repositions contemporary anxieties surrounding technophobias and techno-utopias, as well as outlining methodological paths, including audiovisual ones, for the perception and description of the "traditional and effective acts" that constitute technology. In keeping with the interdisciplinarity that characterizes the essay, the event will foster connections between anthropology and archaeology, understanding that Marcel Mauss's emphasis on mastering technology through the body underscores the continuity between the biological, the psychological, and the social.

Schedule

October 3 (Thursday) 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM:

Opening Panel: Life and Movement: Impacts and Perspectives of Body Techniques between Brazil and France, with Perig Pitrou (Maison Française d'Oxford) and Carlos Sautchuk (UnB)

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.

Registration is now open for the extension course, promoted by LISA-USP, "The path to Alabê: rhythms of the orixás and Brazilian music", coordinated by Profa Rose Satiko and taught by Vitor Israel Trindade de Souza and Elis Sibere dos Santos Monte Trindade de Souza. 

The course addresses the rhythms of the Orixás, with their dances and musical manifestations, including their influence on Brazilian Music. The motto and reference will be the instrumentalists/priests of the Orixás, fundamental in Brazilian musicality. The dialogues offered in these meetings are based on the self-taught methodology of the Solano Trindade Family, with the fusion between theory and practice, and the proposal of movement, sound and well-being as epistemology. It will be offered from 12/09 to 14/11/2024 , from 2pm to 5pm, in the LISA-USP auditorium. 

More information and registration, visit the website: https://sce.fflch.usp.br/node/5676

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.

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.

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.