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:
PETER PÁL PELBART — Professor of philosophy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. His published works include Ensaios do assombro (2019). He is the Portuguese translator of the oeuvre of Gilles Deleuze. Coeditor of n-1 edições publishing house and coordinator of the Ueinzz Theater Group, formed by psychiatric day patients from the A Casa hospital.
LISETTE LAGNADO — An independent critic and curator. She curated the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Como viver junto (2006), and the 33rd Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2013). She was director of the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, between 2014 and 2017, and is a member of the curatorial team for the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020).
Mediator:
ANA PAULA COHEN — An independent curator and author. In addition to co-curating the 28th Bienal de São Paulo (2008), her most recent curatorial projects include exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum (Israel) and Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada). She is creator and coordinator of the graduate course in curatorial studies and practices administered at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, in São Paulo.