Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation
The II Métis International Symposium - Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, whose theme is “Other Us: Poetics of Refusal and Creation”, aims to investigate theoretically and ethnographically the various conceptions of the notion of creation, exploring its polysemy and its relations with memory, in line with the objectives of the Fapesp Thematic Project (2020/07886-8) to which it is linked. Based on the successful experience of the I SIM (2024), this second symposium stands out for promoting the encounter between professionals of different generations and subfields within anthropology and related areas, such as history, archaeology, philosophy, architecture and arts. It also welcomes people from other areas of knowledge, in line with an intellectual and political perspective of establishing intra and extra-university dialogues.
The established outline, the result of reflections that took place in the first edition, is deliberately provocative. That is: it is about starting from the idea of refusal, removing its negative meaning and thinking of it as a creative force that calls for action. This proposition, associated with the "we" (in the double sense of subjects of knowledge and of plot) allows us to shift and deepen the debates on creative compositions, ecologies, materials, time and memory. The reflections thus open paths for contemporary practices and interpretations, sensitive to emerging social and environmental contexts. The II SIM foresees 3 conferences and 4 Cross-Cutting Meetings (ET). The experimental nature of the adopted format, which the idea of “cross-cutting meetings” seeks to translate, aims not only to cross, merge and metamorphose themes and specialties, but also to unfold interests and perspectives, at national and international levels, in order to hold a meeting that contributes to overcoming conventional boundaries of knowledge production in anthropology.
The event will take place in person and will be broadcast on the FFLCH YouTube channel.
EVENT PROGRAM (with transmission links)
06/25 (Wednesday)
USP, Social Sciences Building, room 8
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Welcome greetings. Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (USP), Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques (USP), Jorge Luis Mattar Villela (UFSCAR), Uirá Garcia (UNIFESP) and Stelio Marras (USP)
Lecture. Luisa Elvira Belaunde (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru). Cloths and belts: the art of inhabiting the Kichwa lama house in the Peruvian Upper Amazon
Link to broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/YZBGe4wuzbY
2:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Transversal Meeting 1: Temporalities, waiting, urgencies
Organization. Jesser Rodolfo de Oliveira Ramos (USP)
Mediation. Paulo Teixeira Iumatti (USP)
Conceptions of time weave together multiple creative ways of existing daily; time condenses and expands, according to the perception of its duration and, as a result, we experience the acceleration of urgency, the anguish of waiting and the attention of hesitation. This ET thus seeks to bring together diverse temporalities and geographies, discussing how past, present and future are experienced, especially in situations in which relationships are strained, realities are destabilized and memory is recruited. What is created in the intervals of waiting? What is rejected when one hesitates? What is created amidst the daily urgencies of many of us? How can we meet urgencies without sacrificing attention?
- Juliana Ramos Boldrin (UNICAMP). Between waiting and hoping: the temporalities of urgency in the daily life of a hospital ward
- Luiz Takayama (UFLA). Images of time in Bergson
- Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira (UFOP). Considerations on the temporalities of the contemporary far-right: Bolsonarism and the pandemic urgency
Link to broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/MDaBNbOvBbo
26/06 (Thursday)
FFLCH – USP, Social Sciences Building, room 8
9am - 12pm
Transversal Meeting 2: Subjects, plots, technologies
Organization. Manuella Reale (USP)
Mediation. Uirá Felippe Garcia (UNIFESP)
In what ways - often ambiguous, sinuous or counterintuitive - do collectives refuse and at the same time compose with materials, techniques and technologies? This TM starts from this inquiry to confabulate connections and tensions between material, technological and narrative knowledge, seeking to reflect on modes of knowledge that intertwine with ways of doing, also inquiring how form narrates worlds, and how science and art intertwine. The aim is to undo, therefore, boundaries between knowledge and practices that tend to remain separate – weaving and scientific doing, for example – and also to pay attention to epistemological categories: their possibilities and uses.
- Tone Walford (UCL). Uncommon Knowledge and Common Knowledge: an experiment to intertwine environmental data justice
- Emerson Giumbelli (UFRGS). An Afro-religious ritual in a Catholic temple in Porto Alegre: creativity and paths of memory
- Fabíola Andréa Silva (USP). Ruination and construction in the Itaaka village: an Awaeté counternarrative of development
Link for streaming: https://youtube.com/live/AVajHBIoZR0
2pm - 4pm
Transversal Meeting 3: Earth, water, ecologies
Organization. Gabriela de Paula Marcurio (UFSCAR)
Moderation. Daniela Carolina Perutti (USP)
Works interested in an anthropology of life and ecological practices not only criticize the centrality of the concept of “human” in social theory, but also engage in dialogue with forms of knowledge and actions regarding what we conventionally call “environment,” in the face of the abrupt process of destruction and environmental aggression. Land and water appear as central elements in the struggles and refusals of various collectives, mobilizing a series of elements around these ideas, from forms of conservation in different environments, care and management of natural resources, and the recovery of diverse collectives and subjects that all point to the importance of practices and resistance as forms of ecological creation. Guided by these two strategic images, this ET seeks to relate experiences from diverse ecologies, and to consider multiple human and more-than-human interactions in environments where these elements (and others activated by them) appear as subjects and protagonists in the forms of creation, resurgences, and struggles, capable of establishing life itself in scenarios of composition and coexistence.
- Camila Pierobon (UFRJ). The modern division between land and water and its effects on contemporary urban space
- Fabiana Maizza (UNIFESP). Land policies: dissent and practices of care in the indigenous Amazon
4pm - 6pm
Conference. Pedro Pitarch Ramón (Complutense University from Madrid). Indigenous sensory communication creates beings
Stream link: https://youtube.com/live/
06/27 (Friday)
Sesc São Paulo Research and Training Center (Rua Dr. Plínio Barreto, 285 - 4th floor, Bela Vista - São Paulo)
*You must register on the website ofthe CPF Sesc
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Transversal Meeting IV. Creative trajectories and contaminations
Organization. Joaquim Pereira de Almeida Neto (USP)
Moderation. Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (USP)
With a focus on the transitory and indeterminate states of creations, this ET aims to explore compositions that take place in the course of creative processes; it involves paying attention to the contacts and contagions that are observed along specific paths, and to the mixtures, deviations and risks that are insinuated during creations. The bet is that the emphasis on paths associated with the idea of contamination (potent for allowing us to associate the ideas of propagation and danger) helps us to escape from reifications and dualisms - such as art and crafts, art and science, pure and applied knowledge - also inviting us to reject conceptual and methodological exclusivity. Couldn't the idea of creative contamination function as an instrument to probe associations between knowledge, techniques and disciplines? Wouldn't it have the additional merit of revealing rearrangements, divergences and resistances that accompany creative paths?
- Thiago Mota Cardoso (UFAM). Regenerative compositions: the indigenous art of (re)creating worlds
- Alline Torres Dias da Cruz (UFBA). An intervention in the "aesthetics of fracture": the imagery and sound creation of the short film Descompostura (RJ, 2020)
- Frederico Canuto (UFMG). Architectures of encounter: dust, earth, rattles and ounces
5:30pm - 7pm
Conference. Creuza Prumkwỳj Krahô. Cormã ihcahaj jopên xà: my work as a woman
Scientific Committee
Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques (USP)
Fabiana Maizza (UNIFESP)
Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (USP)
Gabriela de Paula Marcurio (USFCAR)
Jesser Rodolfo de Oliveira Ramos (USP)
Joaquim Pereira de Almeida Neto (USP)
Jorge Luis Mattar Villela (UFSCAR)
Luisa Reis Castro (University of Southern California)
Manuella Reale (USP)
Mateus Oka de Farias (UNICAMP)
Natália Quiceno Toro (Universidad de Antioquia)
Paulo Teixeira Iumatti (USP)
Stelio Marras (USP)
Uirá Felippe Garcia (UNIFESP)
Organizing Committee
Fabiana Maizza (UNIFESP)
Fernanda Arêas Peixoto (USP)
Gabriela de Paula Marcurio (USFCAR)
Jesser Rodolfo de Oliveira Ramos (USP)
Joaquim Pereira de Almeida Neto (USP)
Manuella Reale (USP)
Mateus Oka de Farias (UNICAMP)
Stelio Marras (USP)
Uirá Felippe Garcia (UNIFESP)