Events reflect on the Festival's history and trajectory
A festival held for the first time in 1983, in the midst of Brazil’s redemocratization period, showcasing the entire video production of that time, which questioned form, language and politics. This is Videobrasil's landmark. Initially dedicated to video (Video Brasil Festival), it later became an electronic art festival (1994) and, since its 17th edition (2011), it became dedicated to Contemporary Art, open to all art practices and supports.
Focusing since 1992, when the partnership with Sesc São Paulo was established, on the geopolitical South art production (including Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania), Videobrasil, in its 30-year trajectory, has made history based on experimentalism and innovation in the field of Arts. It started in 1983 with video, a new and groundbreaking language at that time, and expanded in 1990 to variations such as video installation and visual poetry. Since the 2000s, while expanding its internationalization process, the Festival gradually broadened its scope to different art practices, such as performance, dedicating its 15th edition (2005) to that language, eventually accepting all genres and innovations in Contemporary Art from the South in 2011.
Focus 8 - In the Light of 30 Years, which is part of the 18th Festival's Public Programs, held its first event in November 2013: panel in which pioneer curators and researchers related to two historic video exhibitions were reunited. The last two debates of this Focus, which end the Festival's 18th edition (open until February 2 at Sesc Pompeia), put into context Videobrasil's trajectory by means of its exhibitions and the Southern art scene.
The panel Shows in Context will take place on Thursday (Jan 30), at 8 p.m. The curators Ana Maria Maia and Daniela Labra will discuss the relation between the Festival's exhibitions and Brazilian art shows in the past 30 years, analyzing the period in which video, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, was not part of the mainstream art circuit in Brazil. The event will be mediated by researcher Ana Pato, and held at Sesc Pompeia's Galpão.
On Saturday (Feb 2), the last panel, entitled 30 years: memories and updates, features Videobrasil's founder and director Solange Farkas, who will debate with curator and researcher Moacir dos Anjos, curator Eduardo de Jesus, and professor and journalist Gabriel Priolli Netto, the transformation cycles Videobrasil went through in the last three decades. The event will also take place at Sesc Pompeia's Galpão, at 4 p.m., and will be mediated by Videobrasil's editorial coordinator Teté Martinho.
FOCUS 8 | In The Light Of 30 Years
Shows in Context
Sesc Pompeia, Galpão | January 30 | 8 p.m.
featuring: Ana Maria Maia and Daniela Labra | mediator: Ana Pato
30 years: memories and updates
Sesc Pompeia, Galpão | February 2 | 4 p.m.
featuring: Solange Farkas, Moacir dos Anjos, Eduardo de Jesus and Gabriel Priolli Netto | mediator: Teté Martinho