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…

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…

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…

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 '…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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/.