CRITICAL REGARDS

MITsp reflective axis proposes a discussion about performing arts and contemporaneity based on panels with thinkers and researchers from different areas, in addition to the publication of reviews, articles and interviews. CURATORSHIP Julia Guimarães and José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo

aesthetic-political reflections

FROM “LIVE” TO ALIVE: THEATRE AND IMAGINATION, RUIN, AND INSURGENCIES

How to understand the narrative tensions existing today when establishing the common? What are the powers of art to act on the context of grief and struggle going through recent Brazilian experience? This seminar debates the production and contradictions of language and culture in contemporary Brazil.

open classes

Lectures held by thinkers from different areas, in dialogue with the themes crossing the seminar of aesthetic-political reflections.

THE EDGES BETWEEN ORGANIC KNOWLEDGE AND SYNTHETIC KNOWLEDGE

June 7th, Tuesday, from 7pm to 9pm Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

WITH Nego Bispo

Organic knowledge is the one engaging to make up the world of Being. Synthetic knowledge is the one developing to make up the world of Having.

Antônio Bispo dos Santos dos Santos is a writer, quilombola master, farmer, taught by crafts masters. He wrote articles, poems, and the books Quilombos, Modes and Meanings (2007) and Colonization, Quilombos: Modes and Meanings (2015). A political activist and militant of great expression in the quilombola social movement and in fight for land movements, he is a member of both National and Piauí State Coordination of Quilombola Communities.

ABOUT EXHAUSTION - A READING OF SUBJECTIVITY

June 8th, Wednesday, from 2pm to 4pm MITsp’ YouTube channel

WITH Denise Ferreira da Silva

Open and online class reflecting on how time, the privileged modern ethical context, operates as an instance of power not dissimilar to other appropriation mechanisms aiming at assimilating economic value.

Denise Ferreira da Silva is the author of Towards a Global Idea of Race (2007), The Priceless Debt (2019), Unpayable Debt (2022). Her many articles have been published in major interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, TC&S, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory & Event. Her works include the films Serpent Rain (2016) and 4Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), in collaboration with Arjuna Neuman; and the relational art practices Poethical Readings and Sensing Salon, in collaboration with Valentina Desideri.

seminar

PANEL 1 MY COUNTRY IS MY PLACE OF SPEECH:

DESTRUCTION AND LANGUAGE

June 4th, Saturday, from 2pm to 5pm Itaú Cultural

WITH Babalorixá Sidnei Nogueira de Xangô, João Cézar Rocha and Silvia Viana MEDIATION Rosane Borges

What are the relations between language and current Brazilian public life? How to understand the narrative tensions existing today when establishing the common? Language, as a decisive aspect of experience, emerges at the same time as a symptom and weapon. And it is also by language that transformation is disclosed.

Babalorixá Sidnei de Xangô holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Semiotics and General Linguistics from FFLCH-USP/SP, Babalorixá da CCRIAS - Comunidade da Compreensão Ilê Axé Xangô- SP, writer, decolonial black thinker and director of Institute Ilê Ará-SP.

João Cezar de Castro Rocha is Full Professor of Comparative Literature at UERJ and researcher at CNPq. Author of 13 books and organizer of 30 titles. His works have been translated into Mandarin, English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.

Silvia Viana is a PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences of USP, conducts research on cultural criticism and critical theory, professor at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (SP) and author of the book Rituals of Suffering. Rosane Borges is a journalist, collaborating professor at DIversitas (FFLCH-USP), researcher at ECA-USP, writer of IstoÉ Magazine. Author of several books, among which are Infidel Mirror: the Black in Brazilian Journalism (2004), Media and Racism (2012), Sketches of a Present Time (2016) and Fragments of the Present Time (2021).

June 5th, Sunday, from 2pm to 5pm Itaú Cultural

WITH Aldri Anunciação, Casé Angatu and Fabio Luís Franco MEDIATION Rosane Borges

Ruling the living has proved to be a form of death management. In a context where struggle and grief are not only lexical slips, what forms of life that, in work of resistance, design other temporalities beyond the present’s immediate future? What are the forces of art and culture to deal with the traumatic dimension that runs through the recent Brazilian experience?

Aldri Anunciação, the winner of Literature Jabuti Prize (2013), is a playwright, screenwriter and actor. Published The Trilogy of Confinement (Perspectiva), in 2020. Best Actor at the Brasilia Film Festival (2018). Best Screenplay at Memphis Indie Film Festival in the USA and Best Screenplay Award at Huelva Festival-Spain for the film Medida Provisória directed by Lázaro Ramos. PhD with the thesis The Poetics of Disagreement: Self-decolonization of the Author Through the Decolonization of the Fictional Character” (PPGAC-UFBA)

Fábio Luís Franco is a psychoanalyst and PhD in Philosophy (USP). He conducts postdoctoral research linked to the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategy, of Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, and to Institute of Psychology of USP. Currently, he is a researcher at Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis (LATESFIP-USP) and guest professor at PUC-SP. He is the author of the book Ruling the dead: necropolitics, disappearance and subjectivity (Ubu). Casé Angatu is an Indigenous from Tupinambá Olivença Territory (Ilhéus/BA) - Taba Gwarïnï Atã, Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Teaching/Ethnic-Racial Relations of the Federal University of South of Bahia (PPGER/UFSB) and at the State University Santa Cruz (UESC - Ilhéus); Post-Doctoral Student in Psychology at Unesp/ Assis; PhD from FAU/USP; MA in History from PUC/SP; Historian graduated at Unesp; Author of the book: Not All Was Italian: São Paulo and Poverty (Fapesp/Annablume) and Co-author of the book Indigenous in Brazil: Life, Culture and Death (Intermeios), among other publications. Rosane Borges is a journalist, collaborating professor at DIversitas (FFLCH-USP), researcher at ECA-USP, writer of IstoÉ Magazine. Author of several books, among which are Infidel Mirror: the Black in Brazilian Journalism (2004), Media and Racism (2012), Sketches of a Present Time (2016) and Fragments of the Present Time (2021).

panels

Reflection activities carried out around the MITsp Program, hosted by the creators of the works and researchers from other areas of knowledge.

cross-cultural dialogues

Critical reflections carried out in dialogue with the public. Guests from different fields of knowledge take a cross-cultural view in order to cross borders and expand the readings of the works in focus.

MEDIATION Maria Lúcia Pupo and Conrado Dess

Maria Lúcia Pupo is Full Professor at the Department of Performing Arts of the School of Communications and Arts (USP) and productivity fellow CNPq. She works especially in undergraduate training and guides master’s and doctoral research in Performing Arts Pedagogy, publishing books and articles in this area. Developed research and taught in several Brazilian cities, as well as in France and Morocco.

Conrado Dess is a researcher, theatre director, playwright and PhD student in Performing Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at USP. He holds a Bachelor’s and MA degree in Performing Arts from the same institution, with the dissertation Representations and Representativeness in the Contemporary Scene: Notes on an Aesthetic, Political and Social Crossing, supervised by Sílvia Fernandes. During his master’s degree, he did a research internship at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Madrid - Spain), supervised by researcher Óscar Cornago. He researches the relations between theatre and race, focusing on themes such as: black theatres, black representation in contemporary scene and aesthetic, political and social implications caused by the presence of non-hegemonic bodies in the scene.

HAMMER AND SICKLE

June 5th, Sunday, after the show Teatro Paulo Eiró

WITH Rita von Hunty MEDIATION Conrado Dess

Rita von Hunty is the drag persona of actor and teacher Guilherme Terreri. With a degree in performing arts from Unirio and English Language and Literature from USP, Rita develops art-education work focused on the debate of social issues through Culture Studies. She performs in film, theatre, presents a TV show aired throughout Latin America (Drag Me As A Queen - NBCU) and has a YouTube channel, Tempero Drag, with one million subscribers.

June 9th, Thursday, after the show Sesc Belenzinho

WITH Giselle Beiguelman MEDIATION Conrado Dess

Giselle Beiguelman is an artist and professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism at USP. She researches art and activism in the networked city and the aesthetics of memory in contemporary times. She wrote Policies of Image: Surveillance and Resistance in the Datasphere (UBU, 2021), Memory of Amnesia: Policies of Oblivion (SESC, 2019), among others. Her artistic works are part of collections of museums in Brazil and abroad, such as ZKM (Germany), Jewish Museum Berlin, MAC-USP and Pinacoteca de São Paulo. She has received several national and international awards, such as the ABCA Award 2016, from the Brazilian Association of Art Critics and The Intelligent Museum, with Bruno Moreschi and Bernardo Fontes, promoted by ZKM and Deutsches Museum (2021).

thought-in-process + cross-cultural dialogues

Guests from different fields of knowledge take a cross-cultural view about the festival’s shows, in dialogue with the artists and with the audience. Reflections on the creation process are developed from the reading of the works in focus.

STADIUM

June 3rd, Friday, from 4pm to 6pm Itaú Cultural

WITH Mohamed El Khatib and Christian Dunker MEDIATION Maria Lúcia Pupo

Mohamed El Khatib is an actor, director and writer born in Orleans, France, in 1980. He is an associated artist at Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, at Centre Dramatique National de Tours – Théâtre Olympia and at Théâtre National de Bretagne – Centre Européen Théâtral et Chorégraphique. In 2008, he was one of the founders of Zirlib collective, the result of a gathering of authors, actors, researchers, dancers, cameramen and musicians from different backgrounds. The group sees contemporary creation as an experience, a gesture in which the most demanding aesthetic dimension can be confronted day-today. This is the second time of El Khatib at MITsp. In 2019, he presented the show Finir en Beauté.

Christian Dunker is a psychoanalyst and Full Professor at the Institute of Psychology at USP, with the Department of Clinical Psychology. He obtained the Associate Professor title in Clinical Psychology after his Post-Doctorate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Member Analyst of the Psychoanalysis School of the Lacanian Field Forum and coordinator of the Laboratory of Social Theory, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at USP. Twice awarded the Jabuti Prize for Structure and Constitution of the Psychoanalytic Clinic (Annablume, 2010) and Malaise, Suffering and Symptom (Boitempo, 2015) and co-author of The Clown and the Psychoanalyst - How Listening to Others Can Transform Lives (Planeta, 2019).

TRAGEDY AND PERSPECTIVE I - THE PLEASURE OF NOT AGREEING

June 9th, Thursday, from 4pm to 6pm Itaú Cultural

WITH Lisandro Rodríguez, Alexandre Dal Farra and José Antonio Pasta Jr. MEDIATION Conrado Dess

Alexandre Dal Farra is a playwright, director, writer, PhD in Performing Arts from USP. He has won and was nominated several times for the main Brazilian awards. He had texts translated and staged abroad. In 2001, he started the group Tablado de Arruar, with whom he created 19 shows and interventions to date.

Lisandro Rodríguez is a director, actor and playwright born in Quilmes, Argentina. In 2004, he founded the theatre, film and music studio Elefante Club de Teatro (later renamed Estudio Los Vidrios), in Buenos Aires, where he produces and presents much of his work.

José Antonio Pasta Júnior is an Associate Professor and Senior Professor of Brazilian Literature at USP, with a PhD in the same area and a MA in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from USP. He completed his post-doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris. Author of important essays on literature, theatre, culture and society, among them the book Work by Brecht.

HISTORY OF THE EYE - A PORN-NOIR FAIRY TALE

June 11th, Saturday, from 4pm to 6pm Teatro Paulo Eiró

WITH Amara Moira, Janaína Leite and performers MEDIATION Júlia Guimarães

Amara Moira is a transvestite, feminist, PhD in literary theory and criticism from Unicamp (with thesis on James Joyce’s Ulysses) and wrote What if I Were a Whore (hoo, 2016), in which she writes about her experiences as a sex worker, and Neca + 20 Poemetos Travessos (O Sexo da Palavra, 2021), which brings together her monologue in bajubá, the transvestites’ language, and her poetic production on LGBTQIA+ experiences. 82

Janaina Leite is an actress, director and playwright. She is one of the founders of the award-winning Grupo XIX de Teatro de São Paulo, with whom she created several awarded shows touring the country and abroad. Besides her work with the group, she has conceived the shows Festa de Separação: Um Documentário Cênico, Conversas com Meu Pai, Stabat Mater and the online performance Camming 101 Noites. She is the author of Performative Self-writings: From Diary to Scene (Perspectiva). Janaina was the researcher in focus at MITsp 2020. Currently, besides the show Story of the Eye – A Porn-noir Fairy Tale, she is part of the program of Latin American playwrights included in the Bombom Gesell project based in Buenos Aires and is one of the Brazilian artists commissioned by MITsp & Edinburgh International Festival to create an unprecedented online work for the 2023 edition of The Edinburgh Festival.

Julia Guimarães is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at UFMG, in the area of Literature and Theatre. She completed her postdoctorate at the School of Fine Arts (UFMG) and her PhD in Performing Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at USP, where she taught as visiting professor. She is co-organizer of the book Theatre as Public Experience (Hucitec, 2019), editor of the magazines Subtexto (MG), Letras (MG) and website’s Horizonte da Cena podcast. She was a theatre critic in the newspapers O Tempo and Pampulha (BH), on the website Teatrojornal (SP) and in several Brazilian festivals, such as MITsp, FIT-BH and Mirada.

A GARDEN TO EDUCATE BEASTS

June 5th, Sunday, after the show Biblioteca Mário de Andrade

WITH Eduardo Okamoto and Cassiano Sydow Quilici MEDIATION José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo

Cassiano Sydow Quilici is an Associate Professor at the Department of Performing Arts at the Institute of Arts of Unicamp, anthropologist and post-doctor in Theatrical Studies at the University of Lisbon, researcher at CNPq, editor of Conceição/ Conception Magazine, author of the books Antonin Artaud: Theatre and Ritual, The Actor-Performer and the Poetics of Self-Transformation, among others and awardwinning playwright. He researches artist training processes from the expanded scene perspective, in dialogue with anthropology, philosophy and traditional knowledge, especially Buddhism.

Eduardo Okamoto is an actor, graduated in performing arts, MA and PhD in arts from Unicamp, where he teaches. Twice nominated for the Shell Award (2009/2012), he received the APCA Awards (2012) and Best Male Performance at the Agadir International Festival of Body Expression, Theatre and Dance (2008), in Morocco.

José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo is a playwright, screenwriter and director; researcher, curator. He studied film and philosophy; He has a PhD in philosophy with a thesis on the work of Brecht (USP). He is a professor at the School of Dramatic Art and in the Graduate Program in Performing Arts, at the School of Communications and Arts at USP. He was the founder and artistic director of

Teatro de Narradores; He wrote and directed works with the group Os Crespos. He recently directed the pieces Navalha na Carne Negra [Razor in Black Flesh], As Mãos Sujas [The Dirty Hands] and Um Inimigo do Povo [An Enemy of the People]. He has Organised some books and is the author of several published essays; author of I, a Creole, by n-1 publisher. Currently he coordinates the Crossroads book collection, on anti-racist/anti-capitalist thought, by Cobogó publisher.

thought-in-process

Panels with artists from MITsp spectacles, who will debate issues of their creative processes.

BEFORE TIME EXISTED

June 11th, Saturday, after the show Teatro Cacilda Becker

WITH Andreia Duarte, Denilson and Lilly Baniwa MEDIATION Maria Lúcia Pupo

Denilson Baniwa was born in Mariuá, Rio Negro, Amazonas. He is a visual artist and communicator who builds his artistic and social processes from the Amazonian Indigenous Movement and transit through the non-indigenous world.

Lilly Baniwa is an indigenous actress and academic of Performing Arts at the State University of Campinas/Unicamp. Among her last projects stands out the video performance manifesto Lithipokoroda and the Workshop Performatividades Identitárias, both contemplated by Aldir Blanc Law / Amazonas and developed in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.

Andreia Duarte is an actress, curator and artistic director. She spent five years in Xingu Indigenous Area with the Kamayura people, since then she has worked as an ally of the indigenous peoples, completing 20 years of achievements. In her PhD at USP/ECA, she’s researching the intersection between theatre and indigenous peoples. Artistic director of Outra Margem, working on different curatorship and productions, such as TePI - Theatre and the Indigenous Peoples in the format of artistic exhibition and digital platform, among other actions.

critical practice

DAILY REVIEW

Daily production of MITsp spectacles’ reviews for electronic media (mitsp.org).

WITH Daniel Guerra (Revista Barril/BA), Guilherme Diniz (Horizonte da Cena/MG), Ierê Papá (CE/SP), Lorenna Rocha (Quarta Parede/PE) and Michele Rolim (AGORA Crítica Teatral/RS - Coordination)

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

June 12th, Sunday, from 2pm to 4pm Itaú Cultural

The critics who are part of Critical Practice will debate the set of shows presented at MITsp, their effects and the issues on contemporary theatrical scene raised by these works.

Michele Rolim is a journalist, researcher and theatrical critic. PhD student at the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at UFRGS. She has been working in the cultural press since 2009. Editor of AGORA Crítica Teatral website and author of the book What do Performing Arts Curators Think (2017, Cobogó). She is currently the State Culture Advisor of RS. She has participated in several theatre juries. She has been working in performing arts festivals in Brazil.

Daniel Guerra is a critic and artist. Creator, editor and columnist of Revista Barril. He has an MA in Performing Arts and is a PhD student at the Federal University of Bahia (PPGAC-UFBA). He continues to develop theoretically the concept of Scenic Event.

Ierê Papá is an artist, has a degree in Performing Arts from IFCE in Fortaleza/CE, holds a MA degree in Communication and Semiotics and is specialised in Klauss Vianna Technique, both from PUC/SP. Since 2014, he has been part of the Collective Teatro Dodecafônico (SP), where he is a performer and audio video maker. Lorenna Rocha is a historian (UFPE), researcher and cultural critic. Co-founder of Indeterminações - a platform for criticism and black Brazilian cinema. She is editor and critic of Quarta Parede website. She was copywriter at Revista Cinética (2021) and blog Sessão Aberta (2019-2021). Teaches classes on cinema and theatre criticism and about black theatre and cinema. She is a programmer at the 14th Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife and the 24th FestCurtas BH.

Guilherme Diniz is a researcher and theatrical critic. Graduated in Theatre from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (EBA/UFMG) and MA student in Brazilian Literature from the Faculty of Language, Literature and Linguistics (FALE/UFMG). Collaborator of Horizonte da Cena website. He has done critical coverage for different shows and theatre festivals in Brazil, such as Janela de Dramaturgia (BH), Segunda Black (RJ) and São Paulo International Theatre Festival (SP).

cartografias

Interviews and articles of presentation and crossing about MITsp shows for electronic media (www.mitsp.org).

GUEST RESEARCHERS:

Artur Kon is an actor and playwright at Cia de Teatro Acidental, created with colleagues in the Performing Arts course at Unicamp. MA and PhD in Philosophy from FFLCH-USP, author of About Theatrecracy: Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Theatre in São Paulo (Annablume, 2017) and organizer of books Elfriede Jelinek: From Impotent Text to Impossible Theatre and Cia de Teatro Acidental: Trilogy of Political Affections (both to be published). He currently develops postdoctoral research at ECA-USP.

Guilherme Diniz is a researcher and theatrical critic. Graduated in Theatre from the School of Fine Arts of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (EBA/UFMG) and MA student in Brazilian Literature from the Faculty of Language, Literature and Linguistics (FALE/UFMG). Collaborator of Horizonte da Cena website. He has done critical coverage for different shows and theatre festivals in Brazil, such as Janela de Dramaturgia (BH), Segunda Black (RJ) and São Paulo International Theatre Festival (SP).

Luciana Romagnolli is a journalist, critic and theatre curator, founding editor of Horizonte da Cena website and PhD in Performing Arts. She was the curator of FIT-BH 2018 and of MITsp 2017-2020 Critical Regards. Critic coordinator of Janela de Dramaturgia. Author of Today, No? and The Mystery of Eyes Existence.

Sílvia Fernandes is a senior Full Professor in the Graduate Program in Arts of the School of Communications and Arts at USP. She has published several books, including Contemporary Theatricalities (SP, Perspectiva, 2010), Teatro da Vertigem (RJ, Cobogó, 2018), Theatre as Public Experience (organised with Óscar Cornago and Júlia Guimarães, Hucitec, 2019) and Théâtres Brésiliens. Manifestes, Mises en Scène, Dispositifs (organised with Yannick Butel, Aix-Mar).