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5/10/2015

Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

Different venues, Sao Paulo

The Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil became established over the years as a diverse, multiple platform devoted to spreading, fostering and reflecting about art productions from the global South, an area comprising Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania and some countries in Europe and Asia. Significant geopolitical changes are taking place, radically redefining the notions of North and South. Nevertheless, one can sense the need to work on behalf of the field of art and culture in regions that have yet to invent new forms of circulation and visibility.

Established in 1983 by Solange Farkas, its chief curator ever since, the Festival became a partnership with Sesc São Paulo in 1992, which enabled its expansion and internationalization. At that point, the Festival’s curating decided to focus on the Geopolitical South, selecting artists from this geopolitical perspective and dealing with its myriad, complex contexts.

In its 19th edition, set to take place from October 6 to December 6, 2015 in São Paulo, Brazil, the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil takes it proposal to the extreme by making Southern Panoramas the core of its entire programming. The global South and its myriad issues – concerning diasporas, hybrid identities, migration flows and travels, personal accounts, memories, isolation, the social fabric, and insularity – have inspired and set the parameters for the Curatorial Committee to select artworks and art projects, as well as oriented the curating of all of the Festival’s exhibitions, public programs, and publications.

The curators Bernardo José de Souza (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil/ lives and works in Rio de Janeiro), Bitu Cassundé (Ceará, Brazil/lives and works in Fortaleza), João Laia (Lisbon, Portugal/ lives and works in London) and Júlia Rebouças (Sergipe, Brazil/ lives and works in Belo Horizonte) work in this edition under the guidance of Solange Farkas (Bahia, Brazil/ lives and works in São Paulo), general curator of the Festival and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, which co-produces the event alongside Sesc São Paulo.

A total of 62 artists and groups from 27 countries are featured in the three exhibitions of the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas; five of them are guest artists and 57 were selected via two open calls (for artworks and for projects to be commissioned by the Festival, a new feature of this edition). The guest artists and selected artworks exhibitions happen at Sesc Pompeia, the primary venue of the 19th Festival and of the event’s past few editions. The Galpão VB, Videobrasil’s new venue, presents the commissioned projects show. Besides the exhibitions, the Festival will include film programs, performances, awards ceremony, public programs activities (such as meetings and conversations, a seminar, workshops and mediated actions) and publication launches.

During the same period, the parallel show Those Born For Adventure Don’t Stray From The Path – Artworks from Videobrasil Collection, curated by Videobrasil’s archive and research coordinator Diego Matos, will open. It features a selection of artworks from Videobrasil Collection that echoes the reflections the 19th Festival elicits

Image: Slinko, Ghost Looking For Its Spirit | 2012, video

Press relations | A4 Comunicação
Director: Neila Carvalho neilacarvalho@a4com.com.br
Coordinator: Danilo Thomaz danilothomaz@a4com.com.br
phone: +55 11 3897-4122

Opening week: October 6-10, 2015
Highlights include:

Oct 6th at Sesc Pompeia: Galpão VB and Area de Convivencia
6pm | Exhibitions opening and Oiko – Nomik Threads Performance
9pm | Fancy Em Pyetà Segundo Acto Performance

Oct 7th at Sesc Pompeia: Teatro
6pm | Film Programme Opening
9pm | Vostok Cineperformance

Oct 8th at Galpão VB
7pm | Exhibition opening: commisioned projects
7pm | Film programme opening: Gabriel Abrantes
7pm | Book Launch: Videobrasil, Three Decades of Video, Art, Encounters and Transformations

Oct 9th at Paço das Artes
7pm | Paralles exhibition opening: Those born for adventure don't stray from the path – Artworks from the Videobrasil collection

Oct 10th at Sesc Pompeia: Teatro
2pm | Book launches
6pm | Award Ceremony

For more info visit the festival's website http://www.19festival.com

LOCATIONS:

sesc pompeia
Rua Clélia, 93 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
phone: +55 11 3871 7700
www.sescsp.org.br
Visiting hours
october 6 to december 6, 2015
tue-sat, from 10am to 9pm;
sun, holidays, from 10am to 7pm

Galpão VB
Av. Imperatriz Leopoldina, 1150 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Visiting hours
october 8 to december 6, 2015
mon, wed, thu, fri, from 1pm to 7pm;
tue, from 2pm to 9pm

paço das artes
Av. da Universidade, 1 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Visiting hours
october 9, 2015, to january 10, 2016
wed-fri, from 10am to 7pm;
sat, sun, holidays, from 11am to 6pm

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