Schedule

Thursday, June 6^th:

Official Opening | 9:30 AM

Venue: UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 Auditorium

The official opening of the congress with speeches from the organizers.

1^st Panel

The Conceptualized Body | 10 AM - 12 PM

Facilitator: Giancarlo Martins (PPGARTES/UNESPAR/FAP)

Panelist: Fernando Cesar Ribeiro (P.ARTE/PHICOMOV/UNESPAR)

Panelist: Cinthia Kunifas (UNESPAR/FAP)

Venue: Auditorium at Tiradentes headquarters, 5th floor - UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 - Saldanha Marinho, 131

Led by Giancarlo Martins, The Conceptualized Body panel will explore the question of the body as a concept inherent to performance. Participants are invited to discuss and debate the possible concepts of the body that artists formulate based on their performance practices and their dialogues with the theoretical field.

2^nd Panel

The Sounding Body | 2 PM - 4 PM

Facilitator: Amabilis de Jesus (PPGARTES/PPGAV/UNESPAR)

Panelist: Alison Crocetta (OSU/EUA)

Panelist: Marco Paulo Rolla (ESCOLA GUINARD/UEMG)

Venue: Auditorium at Tiradentes headquarters, 5th floor - UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 - Saldanha Marinho, 131

Led by Amabilis de Jesus, The Sounding Body will bring together panelists who are engaged with issues related to sound and its ability to shift our perception of the body in performance. They will consider the emotional, psychological, and socio-political potential of the sonic aspects of the body in performance. Panelist will speak to the capacity of sound to drive the pace and expand the envelope of performance in a variety of forms.

Friday, June 7^th:

3^rd Panel

The Archived Body | 10 AM - 12 PM

Facilitator: Isis Barra Costa (OSU/EUA)

Panelist: Luana Navarro (PUC/PR)

Panelist: Fabricia Jordão (UFPR/PPGARTES/UNESPAR)

Venue: Auditorium at Tiradentes headquarters, 5th floor - UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 - Saldanha Marinho, 131

Led by Isis Barra Costa, The Archived Body panel invites us to transcend the limitations of conventional archives, promoting a re-evaluation of established paradigms that endorse the ongoing cycle of social and environmental injustices. Emphasizing non-hegemonic hemispheric archives, we argue for the necessity of recognizing and addressing our contemporary illiteracy to illuminate marginalized histories and epistemologies. By moving beyond the confines of traditional archives, narratives, and disciplines, the panel considers textualities which, unlike Western civilizational artifacts, are experienced and maintained through forms that incorporate practices and knowledge built in dialogical relations with time and space.

4^th Panel

The Choreographed Body | 2 PM - 4 PM

Facilitator: Danilo Ventania Silveira (UNESPAR/FAP)

Panelist: Eliana Brasil

Panelist: Miro Spinelli

Venue: Auditorium at Tiradentes headquarters, 5th floor - UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 - Saldanha Marinho, 131

Led by choreographer and professor Danilo Ventania Silveira, The Choreographed Body panel will build on the recent momentum of the 35th São Paulo Biennial, entitled Choreographies of the Impossible and engage contemporary, historic, and philosophical ideas related to the impact of choreographic strategies within performance studies and practice across a variety of disciplines that present strategies to confront contemporary issues such as racism, environmental and democracy crises.

Coffee Break | 16 PM

Keynote Address with Q&A

Imagining the Past and Remembering the Future: Afro-Brazilian Philosophies | 5 PM - 6:30 PM

Keynote speaker: Isis Barra Costa

Venue: Auditorium at Tiradentes headquarters, 5th floor - UNESPAR/EMBAP/Campus 1 - Saldanha Marinho, 131

How have the cultures of ancient civilizations of the African continent that crossed the Atlantic been, over centuries, transforming themselves in the Americas? Which elements of the millenary archives of these civilizations are recognizable and acknowledged in the Western hemisphere? Could they ever be enshrined with the respect granted to Roman and Greek civilizations? This presentation is part of a larger project on overlooked forms of knowledge, art, history, religion, philosophy, and cosmology. It examines concepts and practices of Afro-Brazilian cultural expressions in their poetic, historical, and philosophical interpretations. “Remembering the future” is a reference and homage to Toni Morrison’s legacy and conceptualization of “re-memory” as a fictional practice of recollecting and reassembling members of families, bodies, and pasts. To build something new, to imagine a different present and future, one has to be able to re-member it, to return to the past, to learn as we retrieve—as the Akan people of Ghana teach us with Sankofa, the mythical bird with feet planted forward and head turned backward—what was left behind: revisiting the past, reenchanting the present, and shedding new light on the future.