Pivô Research 2023: Study Program

Pivô Pesquisa is Pivô’s residency program. Active since 2013, it has had the participation of about 300 residents, prioritizing and respecting gender, ethno-racial, socioeconomic, and territorial diversity. Over the years, it has accumulated significant experience in forming artists and art researchers through critical monitoring of projects, encouraging debates, and facilitating the development of research and work.

As a means of continuing its experimental character and generating an even richer space for exchange for the participants and the artistic community in general, in 2023 Pivô Pesquisa is committed to a more transdisciplinary and porous residency format. Besides opening itself to the participation of different art agents, enriching the debate about the field, and strengthening the creation of a space for conviviality and collective learning, it proposes the public study program Knowledge in Conviviality: what I don’t see also exists, which comprises a set of conversations and classes with national and international guests around different understandings and ways of understanding the world, seeking to generate a space of conviviality between these different pieces of knowledge.

To think of poetry as a celebration of the earth and the cosmos, as Dénètem Touam Bona proposes; to understand outer space as something ancestral, as Fabiane Borges suggests; to understand “dissidence as a way of inhabiting theory and the world”, as val flores teaches us; to place our attention on non-human politics of life and the possibility of queer virology, as Juliana Fausto and Gabriel Alonso bring us; to construct another artisanship of affections, as Geni Nuñez enlightens us; to manage silences to write, as Tatiana Nascimento enseña us; to be the leftover of the jaguar, as Célia Tupinambá affirms; these are only some of the routes of conversation that enchant the first semester of the study program.
The program lasts 8 months, starting in April and ending in November 2023. It is organized biannually, with activities directed to residents and open to the public, free and paid. The schedule for the second semester will be announced soon. Among the confirmed guests, we will have: Ana Lira, Jorge González Santos, Igor Simões, and Manuel Callahan.

Study Programme Knowledge in conviviality: what I don’t see also exists
April to November, 2023

Semester #1

ALREADY HAPPENED

5th April > Conversation with Célia Tupinambá and Fabiane Borges
Activity open to the public
Venue: Pivô
7pm

Célia Tupinambá: Artist and teacher, directed the documentary Voice of Indigenous Women (2015). Since then, she continues working in the audiovisual area, creating videos along with the community’s youth group. She directed the exhibition Kwá Yepé Turusú Yuriri Assojaba Tupinambá / This is the Great Turn of the Tupinambá Cloak, in Brasília (2021).

Fabi Borges: Fabi Borges researches Subjectivity, Art and Technoscience. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology (PUC-SP, 2013), with a doctoral internship at Goldsmiths, University of London (2011-12). She organized different books, such as Poéticas Cosmopolíticas, Circuito, 2019. Hiperorgânicos, Reconexões Ancestrofuturistas. Rio Books, 2019. Desterros, Terreiros, Circuito.

May 04 > Conversation with Juliana Fausto and Gabriel Alonso.
Online activity
7pm

Juliana Fausto: Juliana holds a PhD in Philosophy. She is the author of The cosmopolitics of animals (n-1 editions, 2020), she is dedicated to animal studies, feminist studies, and arts, with a focus on the socio-environmental catastrophe known as the Anthropocene.

Gabriel Alonso: Artist and researcher, he graduated from ETSAM (Madrid), Technische Universität (Berlin), and Columbia University in New York at MS-CCCP. In his works, he investigates contemporary connections between fiction and materiality in order to blur the binaries between the real and the imagined, between the human and the artificial, and between the natural and the cultural.

16 and 18 May > Workshop with Tatiana Nascimento
Activity for residents

June 7 > Conversation with Geni Nuñez and val flores, moderated by danie sepúlveda valencia
Online activity
7 pm
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Geni Nuñez: Guarani indigenous activist, writer and psychologist. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Psychology and a Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences (UFSC).

val flores: Independent researcher, writer, teacher, activist for sexual dissidence and performer. Her theoretical and poetic work is situated at the crossroads between feminist and queer pedagogical practices and artistic practices, interrogating writing and bodies in (un)learning situations.

danie sepúlveda valencia:Erorist, educator, cultural programmer and independent researcher, Daniel promoted the Permanent Circle of Independent Studies, a platform for counterpedagogical research which, among other projects, created the continuous training course Less Foucault, More Shakira.

28 June > Masterclass with Dénètem Touam Bona
Online activity
7 pm

* Registration is required. It will be available via Sympla 10 days before the event. Follow Pivô’s Instagram.