Roundtable of the Seminars of the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil  | Imagined Communities, held at Sesc 24 de Maio (São Paulo) in October and November 2019.

Debaters:

CLARISSA DINIZ — Curator and lecturer at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. Former editor of the art criticism magazine Tatuí (2006–2015), guest curator of the Centre for Curatorial Leadership, MoMA (2014), and co-curator of various exhibitions, including Museu do Homem do Nordeste (MAR, 2014) and À Nordeste (Sesc 24 de Maio, 2019).

SUELY ROLNIK — Psychoanalyst, critic, curator, and professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, she researches the field of contemporary art and the politics of subjectivization in diverse contexts. Her published works include Transformações contemporâneas do desejo (Estação Liberdade, 1989) and, with Félix Guattari, Micropolítica. Cartografias do desejo (Vozes, 1986). 

JULIANA BRAGA — Historian specializing in museology with a master’s degree in management and public policy. She is head of the Department of the Visual Arts and Technology at Sesc São Paulo, where she has been working since 2000. She coordinates and supervises the Sesc network’s visual arts program statewide.