Outside institutional spaces, art seeps into daily life and interferes with how people perceive the world. Artistic creation transcends formatted educational practices to become a powerful tool for production of meaning, knowledge, and critical thinking. What places does art occupy today? What uses does the artwork suggest to us?
The Seminar Places and meanings in art: debates from the South, with curation and mediation from Sabrina Moura, looks to expand on key issues raised by the shows that make up the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. In connection with the Southern Observatory study program, initiated in May 2015 in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, the seminar will discuss the expansion of art as a knowledge production field. Over the course of four meetings in October, we will engage in dialogue with thinkers, writers and artists to rethink their traditions, spaces of circulation, narratives, and histories.