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pay homage to those who knew how to express something when nothing could be said. under the care of Luiz Antonio Oliveira (Avenida Guilherme Maxwell, 26, Maré,
What is happening now is an ardent aftermath of how deeply the damage left by the years Rio de Janeiro, CEP 21.040-212). It’s a beautiful initiative, I’d like to, but Peter’s
of the military regime has been aggravated by the precarious character of democratic personal autograph in the book prevents me. I think I’ll buy another one to send.
institutions that have not been as revised and strengthened in the last three decades as For at least 20 years I have been following the performance scene, I have watched dozens
would have been necessary. In this sense, the AI-5 has not yet finished, and it seems that of them, including Abramovic’s historic “The Artist Is Present” at MoMA in 2010, but I have
its effects will be felt even more in the coming years. It seems that one has lost the veil never made one. Taking the book to vote was one of the most free moments of my life.
of morality, which still required some discretion from the most perverse reenactments of To use my body as resistance and to realize that so many others were in the same tune.
authoritarian state violence. The first to enter the line of fire will be precisely those for Now, when I see someone on the street walking with a book, and this situation has been
whom the idea of redemocratization was always between legend and hyperbole: blacks, very recurrent, including a lot of people reading a book while walking, I get the feeling

natives, LGBTQ+ and miserables. For this reason, the persistence of struggle and resistance that the 28th day is not over yet, and that performance is not closed yet. In fact, I’m sure
will have in them their root, their motive and their knowledge. it will be continued.

PAULO MIYADA IS A CURATOR, ART CONTEMPORARY RESEARCHER AND CURRENT FEATURE ETHICS&AESTHETICS | PAGES 36 TO 41
ART SPEAKS LOUDER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF AT TOMIE OTHAKE INSTITUTE
FEATURE ELECTIONS 2018 PERFORMANCE | PAGES 34 AND 35
THE BIGGEST PERFORMANCE OUR CONTRIBUTORS CHOOSE SOME WORKS, REFERENCES OF AESTHETIC AND
ETHICAL STRENGTH IN BRAZILIAN CONTEMPORARY ART
IN BRAZIL’S HISTORY
BY ARTE!Brasileiros
OCTOBER 28, SECOND ROUND OF ELECTIONS. THE SAME DRAMATIC DAY THAT
ELECTED A PRESIDENT FUELED BY FALSE INFORMATION WAS THE SCENE OF Identidade ignorada | Carlos Zílio
THE GREATEST COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE COUNTRY’S HISTORY: BY NAIANY REAL
HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - IT’S AN INACCURATE MOVE - LEFT Carlos Zílio was born in 1944, in Rio de Janeiro. A psychologist from UFRJ, he became a doctor
HOME TO VOTE WITH A BOOK IN HAND. in Arts by the University of Paris VIII during his exile in the 1980s. Prior to that, between 1960
and 1970, he actively participated in the opposition to the dictatorial military regime installed
BY FABIO CYPRIANO in Brazil through an engaged art and political militancy. In his work Identidade Ignorada
(Ignored Identity, 1974), Zílio approaches the disappearances during the military dictatorship
IT IS NOT KNOWN WHERE THE IDEA CAME FROM, it must be said that the singer Criolo was the first to in Brazil. The image however becomes current and pertinent at a time when diversity and
suggest - he went to vote with Grande Sertão: Veredas, by Guimarães Rosa - but the fact is identity struggles are fought and censored by the state and conservative social groups. In
that the book ended up becoming the silent symbol of who opposed the candidate for guns. the last 20 years, a culture of recognition, valorization of the other, inclusion and respect
In the 70s, Marina Abramovic summarized in three directions how a performance for individuality and the diversity of social groups, has made enormous advances in Brazil
should develop: no rehearsal, no fixed duration, no repetition. What she and and in the world. Gender issues and different political positions found space in democratic
the artists of that time wanted to do was avoid representation and staging, society. Today, the (re)ascension of conversational and extreme right thoughts question
creating actions that were real experiences, making art an experience without contemporary behaviors, using authoritarian and reductionist discourses.
mediation. The voting with books was an action that obeyed all these principles.
I felt the need to go out with the book, not really knowing what to do with it in the Marcados | Claudia Anjudar
course of the voting, but as soon as I approached the college where I voted in BY MARCOS GRINSPUM FERRAZ
Vila Madalena, in São Paulo, I realized that many others were with me. The sense of For the doctors who accompanied Claudia Andujar in the Yanomami territories in the early
complicity was intense. I did not talk to anyone, it did not seem necessary, but I gave 1980s, the photos should be simple records of the inhabitants of that Amazon region. Since
and received affective looks, confident smiles, positive head-counts. It was exciting. the Yanomami Indians did not have proper names, the numbers on the plates hanging on
There were no exaggerated gestures, everything was measured, like a choreography their necks would serve as identification so that the professionals could do the necessary
that, even without being foreseen, occurred naturally. As in a chorus, after all, the public health work. Given growing contact with the white man, vaccination became urgent
impression was that along with Peter Pal Pelbart’s Capital Life, the book I chose, I so that epidemics would not decimate the Yanomami. For doctors, “it should be a click and
was not isolated but participated in a symphony for the affirmation of humanistic it’s over,” as Andujar told us years later. “But for me it could not be so.” In fact, the “Marked”
values and the rejection of fascism. Walking with a book became a transgressing act. series is much more than an identification work. The gestures, expressions and looks of
Each and every one I met carried the book in a way. Some holding the book in the chest, the Yanomami, captured by the Andujar camera, reveal not only the artist’s ethical but
making it clear who was paying homage, others with a rose in the middle of the publication. aesthetic work, her ability to present objective and subjective worlds, to capture subtleties
Many posted the photo on social networks, some with the voucher, others in the family. and violence, hopes and tragedies, bodies and souls . No wonder the photos included so
As in the performances of the 70s, a photo with the book became the record of an action many exhibitions over the decades, including the São Paulo Biennial, became part of the
that can not be forgotten and that comes to have as much importance as the action itself. collection of the photographer’s pavilion in Inhotim and turned into a book. “Marked” - to
As there was no rehearsal, each did as he could and as he wanted, totally performative. live or die? - reveals an Indian world that, always threatened, appears to be at greater risk
Someone even created the hashtag #bibliografia28outubro2018, I believe it was Daniela when an elected president says he is against land demarcations and promises to end the
Name or Jorge Menna Barreto, to mark the Instagram and Facebook posts of who participated “coitadism” of minorities. Against such violence and ignorance, it is worth remembering
in the performance. There are many marked, unknown and famous, especially actors the words of the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro: “We must learn to be Indians,
and actresses like Denise Fraga, who voted with Bertolt Brecht’s Complete Works, Silvia before it is too late. Learn how to live in a country without destroying it, how to live in a
Buarque was with Raízes do Brasil, by her grandfather Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, or world without destroying it and how to be happy without needing a credit card. The meeting
Deborah Secco with A vida como ela é, by Nelson Rodrigues, to cite only three cases. with the Indian world takes us into the future, not into the past. “ In images, Claudia Andujar
Someone even proposed that the books should be donated to the Maré Museum, seems to make this same statement.

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