Event Description
In this informal conversation, drifting between Portuguese and English, Ricardo Aleixo will talk about his work, which happens at the intersection of poetry, performance, music, video, visual arts, and dance.
Speakers
Ricardo Aleixo is an intermedia artist and researcher of literature, other arts, and media. Since 1992, when he released Festim – Um disconcerto de música plastica, his debut book, he has released 14 other titles, among them, Modelos Vivos (Ed. Crisálida, 2010) and the most recent, Extraquadro (Ed. Minas/LIRA, 2021). His works mixes poetry, fictional prose, philosophy, ethnopoetics, anthropology, history, music, radio art, visual arts, video, dance, theater, performance and urban studies. His work was recently part of the exhibitions “Praça da Língua e Falares” (2021, Portuguese Language Museum/SP) and “Carolina Maria de Jesus – A Brazil for Brazilians” (2022, IMS/SP). In 2021, he was awarded the title of "Notório Saber em Letras: Estudos Literários," a doctoral-level degree, by the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
Nathaniel Wolfson is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Affiliated Faculty of the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. He teaches Brazilian literature and visual culture in a comparative mode, including exchanges between Latin America, the Lusophone world, Europe and the United States. His research interests include critical theory, literary history and criticism, visual arts and cultures, and media studies.
André Lepecki is Professor and the Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Lepecki works and researches at the intersection of critical dance studies, curatorial practice, performance theory, contemporary dance and visual arts performance.
Cosponsors
This event is a collaboration between the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; and the NYU Department of Performance Studies.