• Fri 28 05 2021 / 3 – 6 pm •
Times of Hands – and paws and leaves and wings and fins and
by ELEONORA FABIÃO, ADRIANA SCHNEIDER ALCURE
with BRAZZAVILLE ARAGÃO, WANDA ARAUJO, JOÃO CARLOS ARTIGOS, FLAVIA BERTON, LENA MARTINS, LUNA PESCE, HELENA STEWART and STUDENTS OF THE NÚCLEO EXPERIMENTAL DE PERFORMANCE (NEP - ECO / UFRJ)
Based on the device of ‘partilha’, a culture and economy of giving and sharing, the symposium places the focus on hands and their relationship to materials and objects. Various aspects of work, healing, aesthetics, medicine, movement, time, gesture, rhythm and utility will be explored in greater detail. The aim is to think about manual work, taking into account various methods of production and creation, with a particular emphasis on traditional knowledge.
The symposium is preceded by a two-month-long workshop (Times of Hands – and paws and leaves and wings and fins and) with the students of the NEP as well as a seminar (Urban Quilombo, Enchantment, Traditional Knowledge, Manual Labor and Other Economies) in which all contributors take part. The archives and collections that result will be presented in various formats: scenes, objects, academic texts, fictional texts, performances, etc.
Dates: 28 05 + 29 05 | 15:00–18:00 CET | local time in Rio de Janeiro 10:00–13:00
Venue: online via YouTube
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles
Free of charge
We want to share the bright of the day across time zones. Thwarting the dominance of borders and territories in pandemic times we try to foster clusters of solidarity and exchange. Three chapters, three continents, three time zones – keep awake!
PROGRAM
*During the two days of the symposium, participants will drink herbal teas from medicinal and sacred leaves.
Fri 28 05 2021 | 15:00–18:00 CET
15:00 Drums opening for the Orixás
By Brazzaville Aragão, ‘ogan’ (ritual assistant), percussionist, educator and member of the Cultural Center of Afro-Brazilian Traditions Ylê Asè Egi Omim
15:05 A collection of hands and paws and leaves and wings and fins and
Keynote Lecture by Eleonora Fabião, performance artist and theorist, and Adriana Schneider Alcure, theater director and researcher
16:20 Adeluyi = the kingdom has value
Rhythms by Brazzaville Aragão
16:40 Within our reach
A presentation by artisan Lena Martins on the creation of Abayomi dolls and their link to Black movements in Brazil
17:05 Artistic actions
By students of the Núcleo Experimental de Performance (NEP - ECo / UFRJ)
17:40 Live Chat Q&A
Sat 29 05 2021 | 15:00–18:00 CET
15:00 Drums opening for the Orixás
By Brazzaville Aragão, ‘ogan’ (ritual assistant), percussionist, educator and member of the Cultural Center of Afro-Brazilian Traditions Ylê Asè Egi Omim
15:05 Agbo = The circle of life
A Lecture on coloniality, diasporic processes and slave labor by Wanda Araujo, yalorixá (priestess), anti-racism activist, educator and journalist, coordinating the Cultural Center of Afro-Brazilian Traditions Yle Asè Egi Omim
15:30 Blessing, planting, caring and harvesting hands
Video Performance by Luna Pesce, biologist and raw food educator, passionate about non-conventional food plants and medicinal plants
15:55 Muda: hands weaving the impossible
Lectures on the possibility of solidarity economies by João Carlos Artigos, hacker clown, labor Exú, Flavia Berton, manager and cultural producer, Helena Stewart, actor and theater director (Muda Outras Economias)
16:40 Artistic actions
By students of the Núcleo Experimental de Performance (NEP - ECo / UFRJ)
17:20 Live Chat Q&A
A collaboration of Muda Outras Economias, Núcleo Experimental de Performance (NEP–ECo / UFRJ), Ylê Asè Egi Omim
Times of Hands is initiated by Akademie der Künste der Welt (Academy of the Arts of the World (ADKDW) Cologne, in cooperation with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), School of Environment and Architecture Mumbai (SEA), Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM)
