Call for entries | Southern Observatory
19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas
Undertaking: Sesc São Paulo, Goethe-Institut and Associação Cultural Videobrasil
Observatório do Sul (Southern Observatory) is a research and debate platform that is simultaneously part of the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil — Southern Panoramas — program and Goethe-Institut’s Episódios do Sul (Episodes of the South) project. It is a study group devoted to inquiring into the contexts and uses of the notion of “global South” within the realms of art and human sciences. In addressing this concept from a critical and historical perspective, we will explore practices, policies and actions established by various initiatives and agents (networks, research laboratories, cultural institutions) that operate from this geopolitical and symbolic field.
The Southern Observatory program is structured into four meetings, focusing on the thematic sections that comprise an anthology of texts set for release in October 2015, as part of the 19th Festival publications. The sections are: “Geopolitics of Knowledge,” “Documents and Manifestos,” “Regionalisms and Decentralizations” and “Counter-narratives”. The discussions brought by the study group will feed the seminars that comprise the agenda of the 19th Festival, which will take place from October to December 2015.
Slated to be held from May to August 2015, on dates yet to be confirmed, at the Goethe-Institut headquarters in São Paulo and at Sesc Pompeia, each of the four meetings will feature 12 speakers, eight of whom will be guests and four of whom will be selected via this call for entries.
Entries will be accepted from all interested parties. The requirements are as follows: availability to take part in the program’s four meetings (all of which will take place in São Paulo) and advanced English-speaking skills. The selected entrants will be required to write a critical review of one of the meetings.
To apply, you must fill in the online form by May 5, 2015. The four selected participants will be announced by email on May 15, 2015.
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