ESTÉTICAS DE RESISTÊNCIA: FOTOGRAFIA/PERFORMANCE

Com Karina Bicaseca e Doris Difarnecio

Moderado por Paulo Raposo, professor departamento antropologia do ISCTE-IUL e investigador do CRIA

Data: 7 de Julho

Horário: 14h

Dia 7 de Julho, 14h no Hangar (Rua Damasceno Monteiro, 12) modero uma conversa que imagino muito instigante entre Doris Difarnecio, performer, ativista feminista e pesquisadora do coletivo Arte Acción e Karina Bidaseca, feminista antiracista e investigadora argentina em ciências sociais da UBA. Este diálogo terá como pano de fundo o trabalho de uma outra mulher, a fotógrafa sul africana Zanele Muholi (que foi artista residente nop Hangar) e as propostas artivistas do coletivo Arte Acción.

O trabalho de Muholi concentra-se em raça, gênero e sexualidade, com um ampla produção ligada a pessoas negras lésbicas, gays, transgêneros e intersexuais. E o coletivo Arte Accion criado em Chiapas, México, visa a resignificação dos espaços urbanos e a construção de iniciativas participativas que têm como objetivo criar comunidade em redor da arte e da cultura da performance e da política, da reflexão e do debate e da ação social na região de Chiapas, mas que pode ser transposta para qualquer lugar do planeta.

Doris Difarnecio created and directed 15 theatrical pieces with FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya) from 1999 – 2013. She directed Centro Hemisférico, the satellite headquarters of New York University’s Hemispheric Institute in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico from 2007 – 2013. In 2013 she initiated demonstrations in Mexico, Chiapas, using performance and action as activism denouncing feminicide and sexual violence suffered by women in the region and repeated this actions across Latin America from 2015-2016. Drawing on her theatrical and interdisciplinary background, Doris developed Centro’s public programming and academic-artistic research so as to reflect the historical context of the city known for the Zapatista uprising. Focusing on art, politics, and performance through interdisciplinary collaborations, Doris utilizes theatre and performance as vital anchors in order to link distinct cultures and modes of expression around gender violence. The lectures, workshops, projections, public and political actions, performances, art exhibitions, and installations that Doris has realized across Latin America, Central America, India, Egypt, Spain, and Cuba have allowed for the blossoming of a collaborative, multilingual, and interdisciplinary consortium of institutions, artists, academics, and activists in Arte Acción, a platform she currently directs. With regards to her scholarly work, she studied Comparative Studies in Hispanic and Italian literature and dramatic arts in Skidmore College has a masters from CESMECA (Center of Social Research in Mexico and Central America) in social science and humanities, studied a masters under the recognized scholar, Marta Cassaus, in Social Complexity and Cultural Studies in the Universidad autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In 2018 she won a Fulbright to work with CINDE( Centro de Education y Desarrollo Human) in Colombia where she had the opportunity to work with the Embera indigenous population in Colombia. Her writing has been published in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and she has lead workshops for various institutions like, Uraccan University in Nicaragua, Zapatista autonomous territory, University of Manitoba, University of California, Universidad del Estado de Colombia, Universidad Austral de Chile, Museo de la Memoria en Bogotá Colombia, Harvard University, São Paulo University, UC Santa Barbara Humanities and Fine Arts with Cherrie Moraga, Faculty de Arte y Letras, Cuba, University of New Mexico and Navajo Nation autonomous territory. Publications include, “Cuerpo y Memoria: Women’s Resistance To Violence”. Conjunto, Latin American Theatre Magazine . (forthcoming) 2017.“ Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization.” UBC Press, 2017. “ 20 Voces Piensan,” Conjunto, Latin American Theatre Magazine (2016)“Decolonizando acciones públicas contra el feminicidio con cuerpos disidentes: el performance y la plataforma arte acción en Chiapas México”. Calle 14: Revista de investigación , Colombia. (2014)Reclaiming the talk: Popular Theatre and Historical testimonies as First Nation Women’s Empowerment in Hollow Water, Manitoba (2016) Negotiating Difference and Particularity in an Intercultural Performance. A Cultural Re- Imagining (2015) Please visit: https://centrohemisferico.wordpress.com/ and https://arteaccionchiapasmexico.wordpress.com/.

Karina Bidaseca is a decolonial feminist thinker. She holds a PhD and MA in Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. In 2017 she obtained her Postdoctorate in Social Sciences from PUC-Sao PauloUniversity of Manizales/CINDE//COLEF/CLACSO/FLACSO in the city of Sao Paulo. She received a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes for “Pájaros del océano. Ana Mendieta: A platform to decolonize art and feminism”. In 2020 she was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition “Cartas a Ana Mendieta”, exhibited in four museums and is currently part of the curatorial team of the VIII Jornadas de Feminismo Poscolonial VI Congreso de estudios poscoloniales, Buenos Aires: “Viajar-mundos otros desde el sur. Performances and arts of the earth”. Senior researcher at CONICET and invited researcher at the Center for African Studies of the University of Porto and at the University of the Balearic Islands.

Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Social Sciences since 1995. She is a full professor at EIDAES/Universidad Nacional de San Martín in NuSUR (Núcleo sur-sur de estudios postcoloniales, performaticos, afrodiaspóricos y feminismos) which she directs. She directs the South-South CLACSO Program and the Specializations in Southern Epistemologies in alliance between Centro de Estudios Sociais, University of Coimbra, Flacso Brazil, and Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies of CLACSO and Flacso Brazil, and the Program in research and training in Andean agroecological systems, McKnight/Minnesota Foundation and CLACSO. In 2020 she founded and is the Executive Director of the Congress of Postcolonial Studies and Postcolonial Feminisms and the Decolonial School of Southern Artivisms.

She co-coordinates the Working Group Epistemologies of the South and is a member of the Afrodescendant WG and counter-hegemonic proposals of CLACSO.

She wrote more than twenty books on feminist theories, postcolonial and decolonial studies and multispecies feminisms and artivisms. Among the recent ones: “Ana Mendieta. Pájaro del océano” which will soon be published in Portuguese under the title “Ana Mendieta. Passaro del oceano.” Nau Editora, Rio de Janeiro. 2022; “Por una poética erótica de la relación”, by the publishing house El Mismo Mar; “La Revolución será feminista o no será. The skin of decolonial feminist art” (Prometeo) and “Love as relationship. Discusiones feministas y artivismos culturales” (2022), coordinated with Marta Sierra (Clacso/El Mismo Mar). Her articles were translated into English, French, Russian, Italian, Portuguese. “La révolution sera féministe ou ne sera pas “, was published by Revue d’Études Décoloniales, 2018.