The fifth Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil assembles unpublished essays, excerpts from works and a manifesto around a thematic axis that relates to the feminine and its reflections on culture and intimacy. The “scandalous lucidity” in the face of the mother’s death, which is at the origin of Flávio de Carvalho’s Série Trágica, is at the core of the essay by Eliane Robert Moraes, and of Pas pu saisir la mort, by Sophie Calle, interviewed by Lagnado. Simone de Beauvoir's questions in The Second Sex (1949) are contrasted with the Declaration of the Women's Assembly at the 2009 World Social Forum, which attaches feminism to the “struggle against the globalized patriarchal capitalist system.” The political role of art teaching is addressed in the interview by the Colombian artists Beatriz González and María Angélica Medina with María Inés Rodríguez. Colonial identities are the topic of Christine Meisner's work and the preface by Lucas Bambozzi and Daniela Castro.
Editor: Lisette Lagnado
Editorial Coordinator: Ana Pato and Solange Farkas
Graphic Design: Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
Collaborators: Women's Assembly, Christine Meisner, Daniela Castro, Eliane Robert Moraes, World Social Forum 2009, Lisette Lagnado, Lucas Bambozzi, María Inés Rodríguez.
Edições Sesc-SP and Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2009, 144 pages, Portuguese/English, width: 18.5 cm, height: 23.5 cm.
ISSN 1983-3881.