From Brazil to Canada, and in Between

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Western art symposium to connect Brazilian artists 
Written by Aimee Grace
Western Gazette

Brazilian art collection inspires new exhibition at Museum London
Written by Jeff Renaud
Western News

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Symposium Schedule

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Friday, March 6

Friday, March 6
Western University, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre - Room 234
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Registration and coffee
9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Welcome and opening remarks

Brazilian Art: Representation

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Moderator: Victoria Wolff, Western University

Speakers:

  • Carla Francisco, Colonialism, Postcoloniality, and the Artistic Field: Rethinking Brazilian Art through the Lens of Power Relations
  • Carolina de Campos Tornich Manoel, Mothering the Image: Afro-Brazilian Artists, Feminism, and the Politics of Creation
  • Juliana Bevilacqua, From Primitive to Modern Artist: Reframing the Sculptor Agnaldo Manuel dos Santos
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Coffee Break

Allyship with Indigenous artists in Brazil

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Moderator: Evan Bowness, Western University

Speakers:

  • Rodrigo D’Alcântara (Zoom), The iconography of Tibira do Maranhão, a Tupinambá transancestor
  • Alexandre Cursino (Zoom), Jenipapo as Resurgence: Indigenous Visual Knowledge and Land-Based learning
  • Daniel Dinato, Brazilian Indigenous Art in Canada: The Cases of Tiuré Potiguara and the Collective MAHKU
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch Break
Museum London - Ivey Galleries, second level

Walkthough of Tropi-X exhibition

with guest co-curator Alena Robin

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Saturday, March 7

Saturday, March 7
Western University, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre - Room 100

Brazilian Art: Interdisciplinarity

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Moderator: Dot Tuer, OCADU

Speakers:

  • Alessandra Santos, Currents in Visual Poetry from Brazil to Canada
  • Gabriel Menotti, Barbarian Currents: a Sociological Approach to the History of Brazilian Media Arts
  • Pamela Block (Nadia Meinerz, and Bruna Teixeira on Zoom), Defiça Portraits: Disability, Art and Communication
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Coffee Break

Tropi-X Artists: A Conversation

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Moderator: Cassandra Getty, Museum London

Speakers: Aline Setton, Bruno Smoky, Ian Indiano
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch Break

Diaspora Art

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Moderator: Anahí González Terán

Speakers:

  • Analays Alvarez Hernandez (Zoom), Latinx Canadian Artists in Montréal Today: New Trajectories and Persistent Challenges
  • Soheila Esfahani, In-between Cultures: Cultural Translation in Diasporic Contemporary Art in Canada
  • Tamara Toledo, The Geopolitical Role of Art within Institutions: Latin American Art in Canada
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Coffee Break
Western University, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre - ArtLAB Gallery

Performance by Mariana Marcassa

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Moderator: Constanza Burucúa, Western University

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