How to resist and fight against the paralysis. Against the designified life. To inhabit other worlds, to discover new lands and partnerships.  We were never catechized. What we really made was Carnaval.

With: Etienne Minoungou (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), Gabi Gonçalves (São Paulo, Brazil), Marc Streit (Zurich, Switzerland), Lúcia Camargo (São Paulo, Brazil) and Vincent Gonzalvez (Paris, França)

Moderator: Tamara Gómez Mauri (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Etienne Minoungou is a comedian, director, playwright and African cultural entrepreneur based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. His career: After studying sociology at the University of Ouagadougou and a few years as a teacher, he chose to devote himself entirely to theater. After having been artistic director of the Théâtre de la Fraternité in Ouagadougou, he founded the company Falinga in 2000. In 2002, he launched in Ouagadougou the first residencies of writing and creating pan-African theatrical: Récréâtrales. This Festival has become one of the most important spaces of theatrical creation in Africa.

Gabi Gonçalves is a  cultural producer, member of Corpo Rastreado , which moves a poetic-artistic frame in the city of São Paulo. Graduated in dance by Unicamp, Master in Communication of the Arts of the Body and PhD in Communication and Semiotics (PUC – SP). Coordinator of events such as: Virada Cultural Paulista (2009 and 2010), MITsp (2014 and 2015), Contemporary Festival of Dance (since 2016) and creator, in partnership with Natalia Mallo, of Risco Festival. Until May 2019, she was manager of the Center of Reference of the Dance – CRD – SP, where she initiated a program of “continuous” training in dance within the New Circuit of Afetos Project, focusing on the development of artistic residences. In February 2019 he held the Second Latin American Dance Encounter – Geopoéticas do Sul, whose main theme was Artistic Residencies.

Marc Streit was born and raised in Bern, Switzerland and completed his studies in Management before he earned his MA in Curatorial Studies at the University of the Arts in Zurich. He has been working as cultural entrepreneur, facilitator and artistic advisor and organizer for several institutions and organizations in research and realization of artistic projects. His collaborations include institutions in Europe, the US and more recently Brazil: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, Festspiele Zürich, Message Salon Zürich Dance Festival Steps by Culture Migros and Council Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, San Francisco Counter -Pulse, San Francisco swissnex, Los Angeles Native Strategies, Queer Biennial of Los Angeles and Atos de Fala, Rio de Janeiro.

Lucia Camargo is a curator and cultural manager.  She has worked in the artistic direction of the São Paulo Municipal Theater, Guaíra Theater (Curitiba /Paraná), Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte / Minas Gerais), also at the State Secretary of Culture of SP as Secretary Assistant  and at the Secretariats of Paraná and Curitiba. She is currently coordinator of the Cultural Extension and Special Projects departments of t SP Escola de Teatro- Centro de Formação das Artes do Palco (SP Theater School – Center for the Stage Arts Education).

Vincent Gonzalvez é chefe das Residências Artísticas na Cité internationale des arts (Paris), fundação privada reconhecida como de utilidade pública e plataforma transdisciplinar, transnacional e transgeracional que hospeda mais de 1200 artistas por ano. Desde a sua criação em 1965, a Cité Internationale des Arts recebe artistas de todo o mundo em residência em dois locais complementares: os distritos de Montmartre e Marais, em Paris. Anteriormente, Vincent foi coordenador do programa de pesquisa da École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts (2007-2011) e chefe da divisão de artes visuais e arquitetura do Institut français, Paris (2011-2018).

 

Vincent Gonzalez has traveled with the partnership of: