Throughout its three decades, Videobrasil outlines new contexts for image in motion, culminating in the Festival’s admission of multiple art languages, in 2011. The program's final focus, In the Light of 30 Years, closes the 18th edition, contextualizing the Festival's history in relation of the histories of each exhibit, and establishing a dialogue between key figures featured in the book 30 years.
Videobrasil + Expoprojeção + Zanini
November 26, 8 p.m. — Sesc Pompeia / Galpão
As Videobrasil commemorates three decades of existence, two shows in São Paulo revisit pioneering figures in the history of video in Brasil. Aracy Amaral resumes at Sesc Pinheiros, alongside Roberto Moreira, the project EXPOPROJEÇÃO (1973), the first compiled list of audiovisual productions in Brazil; and São Paulo's MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art) pays homage to its former director, curator Walter Zanini (1925-2013), who in 1976 created the first department dedicated to videoart in a Brazilian museum, featuring Cacilda Teixeira da Costa as one of the coordinators. The panel remembers these initiatives in the light of further evolutions in video.
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About the participants:
Aracy Amaral (São Paulo, Brazil, 1930) Critic and curator, was director at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, MAC/USP, and curator at the 8th Mercosul Biennial and Chile Triennial.
Cacilda Teixeira da Costa (São Paulo, Brazil) Curator and writer, was video art coordinator at MAC/USP and at the 26th São Paulo Biennial.
Eduardo de Jesus (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1967) Curator and professor at the postgraduate program of the School of Communication and Arts at PUC-MG. He co-curated Densidade Local, at the Festival Transitio-MX in Mexico City (2008). Member of the curating board for the Southern Panoramas show.
Roberto Moreira (Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 1962) Curator, teacher and cultural producer, works as Itaú Cultural consultant in the fields of audio, video and film for artists.
Solange O. Farkas Founder of Associação Cultural Videobrasil and curator-general of the 18th Festival. She was the director and curator-in-chief at the Bahia Art Museum from 2007 to 2010, and a guest curator at the biennials of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and Cerveira (Portugal) in 2011.