From Brazil to Canada, and in Between

Symposium Schedule

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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
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