Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Five publications will be launched during the 19^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil | Southern Panoramas, slated for October 6 to December 6, 2015 in São Paulo. Three of them are linked to the Festival’s themes, acting as printed platforms for this edition’s exhibitions and debates, and as additional environments for the development of its curatorial issues.

A fourth publication celebrates the three decades of Videobrasil’s history, mapping the transformations undergone by video and its convergence with art from the 1980s on.

The final publication is An Alliance of Vulnerable Bodies, the 11^th edition of the annual contemporary art magazine Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil, edited by curator Miguel Angel López and focusing on how feminism, gender issues, post-pornography, queer activism and sexual dissidence are transforming traditional subjects and discourses within art history.

The publications are produced via a partnership between Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Edições Sesc São Paulo, which is part of Sesc São Paulo – the co-producer of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil –, and coordinated by the journalist Teté Martinho.

Find out more about the five publications:

SOUTHERN PANORAMAS | GUEST ARTISTS
Features references about the work and thoughts of Abdoulaye Konaté (Mali), Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal), Rodrigo Matheus (Brazil), Sonia Gomes (Brazil), and Yto Barrada (Morocco), the artists in the Southern Panoramas | Guest Artists exhibit, which is part of the 19^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. Through conversations with the exhibition artists and curators, the publication outlines the research developed by each participant, the ideas behind them, the artists’ connection with the notion of a geopolitical South, and the curatorial themes that run through the exhibition. Images from relevant works and biographical information shed light on the backgrounds and universes of each of the guest artists.

Collaborators
Solange O. Farkas
Bernardo de Souza
Bitu Cassundé
Júlia Rebouças
João Laia

Graphic design
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain

Coordination
Teté Martinho

Design
Carla Castilho, Lia Assumpção | Janela Estúdio

VIDEOBRASIL: THREE DECADES OF VIDEO, ART, ENCOUNTERS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS
The publication revisits the contents and changes that have marked Videobrasil’s 30-year trajectory, transforming a local initiative designed to foster and discuss 1980s Brazilian video into a platform for contemporary art production from the geopolitical South of the world. Projecting forth from the present, it hones in on the artists, artworks and ideas that helped build the Festival’s identity, and sheds light on turning points in its history, such as its going international and embracing all artistic manifestations. In doing so, it ultimately encompasses broader fragments of history: the discovery of video as an artistic medium and matter by international avant-gardes in the 1950s-60s; the ideas that breathed new life into Brazilian audiovisual and art productions of the 1960s and 1970s; the arrival of home video formats in Brazil, coinciding with the desire to renew the language and thematic range of open television in the 1980s; the integration of video artists into the art system, from the 1990s on; and, more recently, the discovery of the tool by artists not necessarily associated with it.

Organized by
Teté Martinho
Solange O. Farkas

Collaborators
Eduardo de Jesus
Gabriel Priolli
Moacir dos Anjos
Paula Alzugaray

Graphic project and design
Celso Longo + Daniel Trench

SOUTHERN PANORAMAS | READINGS - Perspectives for other geographies of thought
Essays and art manifestos that present, advocate, or question the notion of geopolitical South, which pools together regions with shared historical, social and cultural contexts can be found on Southern Panoramas | Readings - perspectives for other geographies of thought. Through the input of theoreticians and sample contemporary artistic and cultural practices, the publication discusses ideas that challenge Eurocentric representations and narratives.

Organized by
Sabrina Moura

Collaborators
Milton Santos
José Rabasa
Arjun Appadurai
Jean and John Comaroff
Joaquín Torres García
Organization of African Unity
Artur Barrio
Cildo Meireles
Rasheed Araeen
Rede Conceitualismos do Sul
Moacir dos Anjos
Anthony Gardner
Charles Green
Geeta Kapur
Néstor García Canclini
Achille Mbembe
Sasha Huber, Petri Saariko and Maria Helena Machado
Ana Longoni

Graphic design
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain

Coordination
Teté Martinho

Design
Carla Castilho, Lia Assumpção | Janela Estúdio

SOUTHERN PANORAMAS | SELECTED ARTWORKS AND COMMISSIONED PROJECTS
The publication catalogues the 60 artworks and projects featured in the exhibitions Southern Panoramas | Selected artworks and Southern Panoramas | Commissioned Projects, both of which are part of the 19^th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. The selection was made from a pool of roughly 2,000 entries. The shows’ curators deliver reviews/synopses of each of the pieces and short essays about the projects, also portrayed in images and sketches. A special segment features pictures of the two exhibitions at Sesc Pompeia and Galpão VB.

Collaborators
Solange O. Farkas
Bernardo de Souza
Bitu Cassundé
Júlia Rebouças
João Laia

Graphic design
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain

Design
Carla Castilho, Lia Assumpção | Janela Estúdio

CADERNO SESC_VIDEOBRASIL 11: An Alliance of Vulnerable Bodies
Curated by Peruvian writer and curator Miguel Angel López, the 11^th Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil looks into how feminism, gay activism, post-pornography, and other body-oriented critical responses are transforming the very discourses of art history and art grammar. The publication combines theoretical essays and visual proposals that revisit queer art initiatives or provide new visions of art history in the light of said critical responses. Features a printed version of Giuseppe Campuzano’s Museo Travesti del Perú, presented by Ángel Lopez at the 31^st São Paulo Art Biennial.

Curator
Miguel A. López

Collaborators
Fernanda Nogueira
Catherine Lord
Paul Preciado
Aimar Arriola
Las Serigrafistas Queer
CUDS
Julia Bryan-Wilson
Ming Wong

Graphic project and design
Luciana Facchini

Coordination
Teté Martinho