Associação Cultural Videobrasil

The On Tour program, featuring winning works from the 18^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, arrived in Campinas. The exhibition was opened to the public on 29th July, at the SESC Campinas, bringing together about 300 people, including artists, local public and authorities. The opening ceremony began at the Theather, where one of the curators invited to the Festival, Júlia Rebouças, spoke about this 18th edition and the 14 works awarded with prizes and honors, that will be exposed in Campinas until 05 October. In a very emotional moment, Júlia initiated a Tribute to Bakary Diallo, recently killed in a plane crash. "A wonderful artist, brutally intelligent, sensitive, very creative, with a great energy and workforce." A video with testimonials captured during the 17 th and 18 th edition of the Festival, with excerpts from his two works, were exhibited to the public. Then came the presentation of the " O Samba do Crioulo Doido", performance by Luiz de Abreu, awarded with the Grand Prize in this edition of the Festival. After the performance, a cocktail initiated the visitation the of works at the cultural shed, with the speeches of the manager of the unit, Evandro Marcus Ceneviva, and the director of Videobrasil, Solange Farkas, with the presence of the residency award winner artists at Sacatar Institute (Bahia, Brazil), Basir Mahmood.

In addition to artwork by Luiz de Abreu, On Tour in Campinas featured thirteen other winning videos and video installations: Tomo, by Bakary Diallo; My Father, by Basir Mahmood (Pakistan); Funfun, by Ayrson Heráclito (Brazil); Domésticas, by Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil); Journey to a Land Otherwise Known, by Laura Huertas Millan (Colombia); We Are One, by LucFosther Diop (Cameroon); The Sun Glows Over the Mountains, by Nurit Sharett (Israel); Pipe Dreams, by Ali Cherri (Lebanon) and Sergio e Simone, by Virgínia de Medeiros (Brazil) -, plus four honorable mentions winners, Rabeca, by Caetano Dias (Brazil); Brisas, by Enrique Ramirez (Chile); 9493, by Marcellvs L. (Brazil); and Motherland, by Sherman Ong (Malaysia).

Apart from these, the facilities include four computers on which to view digital contents. The audience have access to the VB Video Library, containing roughly 1,300 pieces from the Videobrasil Collection; to the videos on Channel VB, the audio visual section of Videobrasil’s website, featuring Videobrasil on TV series programs, recorded Public Programs meetings, interviews, statements from artists, curators and guests, behind-the-scenes features, and recordings of performances presented throughout the Festival’s eighteen editions. The computers also grant access to PLATFORM:VB, an online art research and experimentation tool that features statements from artists and sheds light on their creative processes and references, including photos and videos selected by the artists themselves on the basis of their importance to their creative research work.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS - CAMPINAS RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE

Two other Public Programs activities will be held during the exhibition of winning works in Campinas. The performer and performing arts director Carolina Mendonça and the curator, architect and urban planner Paulo Miyada will repeat the successful strategy of activation actions focusing on exhibition contents, suggesting new texts and interpretations, and originating new products – in this case, one performance and one short film. Miyada’s and Mendonça’s proposals both prompt encounters and reflection about the audience’s relationship with the exhibition and the artwork, involving Campinas residents selected via open calls – registrations will be announced soon.

On September 18, 8 pm at Espaço Educativo (Educational Area), Paulo Miyada will present Mixtape: Videobrasil Campinas, followed by a conversation with the audience. In this short film made at the exhibition venue, Paulo Miyada uses video to build a narrative inciting the audience to cast new gazes upon the artwork featured in the On Tour leg in Campinas. The idea is to engage in critical reflection about art from the perspective of the featured artworks and their relationship with the audience, with the participation of non-actors selected from among Campinas residents.

On September 24 and 25, Carolina Mendonça will present the performance Público, with two presentations each day, 3 pm and 8 pm at the exhibition venue. Público is a rehearsal designed to displace audience perception of time and space. Performers will take up the venue and transform it, attempting to choreograph different artwork cognition and interpretation processes.

In addition to mediation actions coordinated by the Sesc team and targeting visitors and school groups, the Public Programs activities are designed to transversally expand upon the themes and curating concepts featured in the exhibition, fostering experiences and debate in order to shed light and build on the questions raised by the artwork.

Public Programs artists’ and guests’ mini-bios

Luiz de Abreu (Araguari MG, Brazil, 1963), a dancer and performer, investigates the stereotypes associated with the black body. He has performed at contemporary dance festivals in France, Germany, Portugal, Croatia, Cuba, Spain, Africa and Brazil. He featured in the Mercosur Biennial, in Porto Alegre (2009), and presented the solo Travesti at the SESC Dance exhibition (2001). His piece O samba do crioulo doido is a part of the video dance collection of Paris’ Centre Georges Pompidou. He lives and works out of São Paulo, Brazil.

Paulo Miyada (São Paulo, Brazil, 1985) holds a degree in architecture and urban planning from FAU-USP, where he completed a master’s thesis on the History and Rudiments of Architecture and Urban Planning. He is currently the coordinator of Tomie Ohtake Institute’s Research and Curating Center.  In 2008, he served as assistant curator to the 29^th Biennial of São Paulo and made the documentary film tododiafeira. He has curated the shows Tomie Ohtake: Correspondências (Tomie Ohtake: Correspondence) as a part of the Japanese artist’s centennial celebrations, and Estranhamente Familiar (Strangely Familiar), featuring emerging contemporary artists, both in 2013 at Tomie Ohtake Institute. In 2014, he has curated Sem título – Técnica Mista e Dimensões Variáveis (Untitled, Mixed Techniques and Variable Dimensions), a solo show by Bruno Moreschi at Complexo Cultural Funarte’s Galeria Mario Schenberg, in São Paulo, and Em Direto, featuring the artists Cadu and Fabio Morais, at Sesc Sorocaba. In 2011 he was part of the selection committee for Casa Tomada’s residency programs, and in 2012 he served as a juror for the JA.CA. — Jardim Canadá Art and Technology Center.

Carolina Mendonça (São Paulo, Brazil, 1984) is an artist who straddles performance, the visual arts, theater and dancing. The holder of a degree in Theater Directing from ECA-USP, she is a resident artist at Lote#3, awarded by the 15^th Dance Incentive Project of the City of São Paulo. Highlights among her directing works include, in 2012, the plays Valparaiso, um Esboço, featured in the show Novos Diretores do Teatro da Vertigem, and Uma História Radicalmente Condensada da Vida Pós-Industrial (New Directors of Vertigo Theater, a Radically Condensed History of Post-Industrial Living), winner of the CCJ’s Primeiras Obras prize, presented at the SESC Arts Exhibition and winner of the Myriam Muniz Prize in the following year. In 2013, she was a performer in Coverman, by Alexandre da Cunha, during the 18^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil; and in Exhibition, by Cláudia Muller, during the Sesc Dance Biennial at Sesc Santos. In 2012, she was a performer in 1 Milímetro of All That, by Cristian Duarte, featured at Sesc units Pinheiros, Ipiranga, Belenzinho and Sorocaba, at the Funarte Culture Complex, at Centro Cultural São Paulo – CCSP and at the Museum of Image and Sound – MIS. In 2010, she participated in We Think, We Like That, by Cristian Duarte and Paz Rojo, during the Contemporary Dance Festival in São Paulo.

SERVICE:

What: 18^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil On Tour | Prize- and Honorable Mention-Winning Works - Campinas
Opening | July 29
Open until:  October 05, 2014 (Tuesdays through Fridays from 08:30 am to 9:30 pm, Saturday s, Sundays and holidays from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm).

What: 18^th Festival On Tour - Public Programs in Campinas
Performance - O Samba do Crioulo Doido, July 29, 8:00 pm
Mixtape: Videobrasil | short film by Paulo Miyada: September 18, 8:00 pm, Educational Area
Público | a performance by Carolina Mendonça: September 24 and 25, with two presentations each day, 3 pm and 8 pm, exhibition venue

Group visits: from Jul 30 to Aug 15 and from Oct 1^st to 3.
Scheduling by email: agendamento@campinas.sescsp.org.br
Sesc Campinas: R. Dom José I, 270 - Bonfim, Campinas - SP

Admittance is free