Presentation
December 6th to 9th 2022
Above all, art and culture suffer when are foretalled, as in our time, events that are more like a whirlwind raging, whether we are talking about a pandemic dystopia or any political debacles. It is our accountability, however, to sift new horizons from what remains, to create the necessary times that will allow resistance and encounters to germinate. Dialectically, if art suffers, as well from around the pulse heard from it, it becomes possible to gather living and fertile fragments to build a new world. It is in the active space of memory, by Benjamin, in the partage du sensible, by Rancière, in the urgency of affections, by Spinoza and Deleuze & Guattari, in the thought that intertwines image, culture and reality, by W. J. T. Mitchell and Mirzoeff, that this movement takes place.
With these questions in mind, the Post-Graduate Program in Visual Art and Culture (PPGACV-UFG, Brazil) and Maestría en Arte y Cultura Visual (Facultad de Artes – UDELAR, Uruguay) present the V SIPACV - (en)volver, or (in)volve. At a time when dissent and war are once again a discussion on the geopolitical level, the year 2022 stands out for its noble milestones, the bicentennial of the Independence of Brazil, the centenary of the Modern Art Week, as well as the anniversary thirty-four years of the Constitution of 88, an indisputable democratic landmark of our political regime. Hence the need to think about freedom, democracy and new artistic and pedagogical manifestos.
Volver (to turn back, in Spanish) is not a verb that makes us go back, but to revisit, in an auspicious way, moments when our wager is to remake the future. As in the song by the Argentinean Mercedes Sosa, volver is to return to the jovial pulse of life that tangly surges hope and binds destinies. Therefore it is necessary to return as one who “returns an image”, as Georges Didi-Huberman (2015) presents as the creation of the common place. Being together, relating to and unmaking the distances, elaborating and sharing knowledge that are changes in and for the collective. Still, immersed in the present, despite its nature, we cannot count on Ariadne’s thread to make a miraculous path appear, even more, it is time to join our threads, entangle sensible experiences, propose human intertwining , to (en)volve.
It is time to engage knowledge and social actors, occupy and reterritorialize spaces, unveil political and micropolitical actions and acts, pervaded with the latency and power necessary for transformation, starting, with small steps, through the present. Even though our Seminar’s proposition remains in a remote format, we remain watching presence, as a way of seeing, but also of letting sound a perennial call to the present. We are many and there are many voices. From this tangle we let resound the richness of dissonances, for only entropy states flatten into new orders of things. In the context of the V SIPACV, due to differences and approximations, we expect to reap the amalgamation and union. It is time to (en)volve.
Organizing Committee of the V SIPACV: (en)involve
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