The seminar “Brazil in Dialogue” aims to share current research on Brazilian art with the public at Freie Universität’s Institute of Art History. Papers will be presented by young researchers who are part of, or connected with, the Institute’s research group “Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art” (especially the subgroup “World Art and the World of Art – Then and Now”). Papers, commentaries and presentations by internationally renowned experts will enrich the discussions and build awareness for the problems examined. The event addresses epistemological questions from a historical perspective, looking at three key areas: 1. How has documentary material from Brazil and Europe been dealt with in the past, and what kind of fixations and stereotypes have been formed? 2. Which current concepts of transculturalism can be made fruitful for the research on Brazilian art? 3. How does the increasing international importance of Brazilian art since the beginning of the 20th century relate to the academic research done on it? Also included in the seminar’s program is the screening and discussion of films made by, and informing about, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica.
Conference language: English
Further information on https://www.netvibes.com/brazilindialogue#Deutsch
Audio documentation
Thursday, 21.5.2015
Moritz Wullen (Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) – Opening (mp3, 3 mins.)
Gregor Stemmrich (Berlin) – Introduction (mp3, 11 mins.)
Roger Buergel (Zurich) – And How Does Knowledge Come into Display? A Few Lessons Drawn from Lina Bo Bardi’s Short-Lived Museum of Popular Art in Bahia – Keynote Part 1 (mp3, 23 mins.), Part 2 (mp3, 29 mins.)
Panel I Challenges of Transcultural Practice in Art History
Andreas Valentin – Introduction Panel I (mp3, 4 mins.)
Susanne Neubauer – Questioning the Point of View: Ludwig Grote and Brazil (mp3, 28 mins.)
Pauline Bachmann – Neoconcretismo: Translation of Form – Form of Translation (mp3, 26 mins.)
Response: Susanne Klengel (Berlin) and discussion Panel I: Pauline Bachmann, Susanne Klengel, Susanne Neubauer (mp3, 30 mins.)
Miriam Minak – Introduction to the films by Andreas Valentin (mp3, 3 mins.)
Andreas Valentin – Introduction to the films (mp3, 8 mins.)
Andreas Valentin – Introduction to Marcos Bonisson (mp3, 2 mins.)
Response: Jens Andermann (Zürich), Michael Asbury (London), Andreas Valentin Part 1 (mp3, 27 mins.), Part 2 (mp3, 32 mins.)
Friday, 22.5.2015
Panel II Documentaries in Brazilian Art
Susanne Neubauer – Introduction Panel II (mp3, 5 mins.)
Lena Schaeffler – Art by People Suffering from Mental Illness in Brazil – A Case Study (mp3, 26 mins.)
Miriam Minak – Breaking the Frame: Documents Travel from Schwitters to Oiticica (mp3, 26 mins.)
Response: Sabeth Buchmann (Vienna) (mp3, 26 mins.)
Discussion Panel II: Sabeth Buchmann, Miriam Minak, Lena Schaeffler (mp3, 17 mins.)
Panel III Brazil in the International Discussion of Post-1945 Art: Contents, Questions and Exposure
Pauline Bachmann – Introduction Panel III (mp3, 4 mins.)
Irene Pfeffer – Mira Schendels Work in the Current Dialogue. Reception and Contextualization in Art History and Exhibition Practice (mp3, 19 mins.)
Sarah Poppel – In between Modernities: Internationalization and Abstract Art in Brazil 1930s-1940s (mp3, 29 mins.)
Andreas Valentin – Light and Form: Brazilian and German Photography in the 1950s (mp3, 28 mins.)
Response: Michael Asbury (London) (mp3, 27 mins.)
Discussion Panel III: Michael Asbury, Irene Schaeffler, Sarah Poppel, Andreas Valentin (mp3, 13 mins.)
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