The Conference Acts of Rebellion brings Márcia Tiburi, Marco Martins and others to ESAP

The colloquium Acts of Revolt, dedicated to the performing arts as a form of protest and social change, will be held at ESAP on October 26 and 27, with the participation of researchers and artists from various countries.

Admission is free.

26/10

10h – Opening Session

10h15 – Keynote speaker – Vozes Silenciadas: Contra o Esquecimento – Luísa Pinto (director, Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Portugal)

11h15 – Panel 1 – Protests in Latin America

Iconos y Exilios: El Happening como estrategia critica-política 

Ronit Tal Sultan (Sapir College, Israel)

Cuerpos originarios en escena. Perfomance como herramienta de reivindicación identitaria en América Latina.

Renata Ribeiro dos Santos (Universidad de Oviedo, Espanha)

Escola de Samba Mangueira: ato performativo antirracista

Joaquim Gama (Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Portugal)

15h – Panel 2 – The Prison State

BBB: Performing Bodies beyond Bars

Ece CANLI (The Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho, Portugal)

Prison Theatre and What Incarcerated People Teach Us About Theatre

Ashley Lucas (University of Michigan)

16h20 – Keynote speaker

Não Ficção e Auto Ficção. O trabalho com as comunidades e os profissionais amadores

Marco Martins (director)

27/10

10h – Keynote speaker – Estética e fascismo: sobre a política do grotesco, do ridículo e do cafona – Márcia Tiburi (Universidade de Paris 8)

11h20 – Panel 3 – Aesthetics of Protest

Parties of the Dead

Elena Korowin (Braunschweig University of Arts, Germany)

Rethinking the collective protest body. Evolution in the imagery of the group subject in Chto Delat’s performances through the twenty years of artistic production. 2003-2023

Yulia Tikhomirova (University of Bologna, Italy)

15h – Panel 4 – Feminism Protest

Dancing through the Trap Door: Cassils’ Troubling of Trans Visibility

Karen Stock (Winthrop University, EUA)

The Rosies: riveting women social rights to street performances and beyond

Emmanuel Cohen (Parsons Paris – The New School, France)

16h20 – Panel 5  – Marginalities

Practices of vulnerability in contemporary Italian performing art.

Martina Cavalli (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy)

Performing interventions in social neighbourhoods – The case study of Cultura em Expansão, in Campanhã

Jorge Palinhos (Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo, Portugal)

17h30 – Closing Session