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SIMONETTA PERSICHETTI is a journalist resurgence of attacks on the environment the 1988 Constitution. Today, she defends:
and photography critic. She has a masters and on minorities – blacks, indigenous “Democracy is not just a political regime,
in Communication and Arts (Mackenzie), peoples, the LGBTQ+ community – has but a way of life.”
PhD in Social Psychology (PUC-SP) and marked the last four years, all exacerbated It was with this speech that Weiss set the
post-doctorate at ECA-USP, she teaches at by the pandemic. tone for the opening of the Vii International
Faculdade Cásper Líbero and is a member At the same time, some initiatives that Seminar: Culture, Democracy and
of the Editorial Board of arte!brasileiros . have as a principle solidarity, empathy and Reparation, promoted by arte!brasileiros
In this issue, she analyzes the questionable respect started from these targets, which and Sesc São Paulo on September 22 and 23.
use of high-impact journalistic images in have been weaving forms of resistance, PhD in Law from the University of Tübingen,
exhibitions. creating new cultural practices, new utopias president of the Foundation of the Museum
for the present. To discuss these splits of Applied Arts of Frankfurt and member
VII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR CULTURE, DEMOCRACY and the potential sutures, professor and of the International Advisory Board of
AND REPARATION [PAGES 10 To 23] psychoanalyst Christian Dunker, researcher the Bienal de São Paulo, Weiss has been
ART AND CULTURE and curator Sandra Benites, member of engaging in projects in favor of democracy
in different formats, through literature,
the artistic commission of the Museum
ARE ENVELOPED IN of Indigenous Cultures, were invited. The cultural projects and, more recently, as
DEMOCRACY table was introduced by Paula Macedo co-founder of Netwerk Paulskirche, a
Urgent topics in the Brazilian and world Weiss, PhD in Law from the University of German civil society group that aims to
sociopolitical scenarios were debated Tübingen and President of the Foundation encourage political participation and
during the 22nd and 23rd of September of the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt, create positive democratic practices and
at the Sesc Vila Mariana Auditorium
in São Paulo Germany. Weiss read excerpts from her experiences in everyday life.
books Democracy on the Move. Invited to the event, she read an essay
from THE nEwSroom On the second day, the table had as from her book Democracy in Movement,
its theme The Farce and the Community. released by Folhas de Relva Edições in 2022.
in its seventh eDition, the International Its objective was to rethink the primacy The publication brings together short texts,
Seminar held by arte!brasileiros marked of the individual over the collectivity, a which mix literary chronicles and journalistic
another chapter in our struggle for culture movement exacerbated by neoliberalism, essays, in which Weiss starts from her
and education. With the theme Culture, and to point out that resistance actions personal experiences to comment and
Democracy and Reparation, urgent topics have been developed, inside and outside reflect on aspects of contemporary life. The
in the Brazilian and global sociopolitical Brazil, as a counterpoint. To this end, it essay The Rules of the Game is no different:
scenarios, the 2022 meeting had its first brought together important figures of the writer focuses on her own experience of
in-person edition after two years, due to today in order to deepen the reflection. understanding the Democratic State of Law
the health restrictions of the pandemic. To talk about their experiences, artists, during her time in college, a few years after
With the partnership of Sesc SP, the curators and members of the MAM SP art the end of the dictatorship, and highlights:
seminar had, between the 22nd and 23rd commission were present; the Indonesian “A society cannot live in peace if each group
of September, at the Vila Mariana unit, with artist Farid Rakun, a member of the lumbung plays only for its individual interests, leaving
a captive audience, recurring in our events, collective, responsible for the conception the other participants abandoned”. Here is
formed mostly by students and academics, and execution of documenta fifteen, and the transcript of the essay in its entirety:
in addition to representatives of the most the artist and educator Graziela Kunsch, a The rules of the game [this text is all from
important cultural institutions in São Paulo, Brazilian invited to participate in the show Paula. Our default is to italicize it?]
such as Jochen Volz (general director of that took place until September in Kassel, You know that person who crosses your
the Pinacoteca), Cauê Alves (curator of Germany. In charge of the opening was path and becomes decisive for you to see the
the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo), Professor Ligia Fonseca Ferreira, who world in another way? This experience has
among others. presented a case on the representation exponential power if you are still at a stage in
In his opening speech, Danilo Santos and visuality of the black body in the History your life where, as Paulo Leminski accurately
de Miranda – philosopher, sociologist and of Art, based on the book An African in the describes, “the flavor of the meat / has not
Director of the Regional Department of Sesc- Louvre, by Anne Lafont, which Ferreira has yet been spoiled / by the everyday brine”.
SP – highlighted the partnerships made just translated into Portuguese. My turning point was a professor of
with institutions in the field of culture and The meetings had simultaneous General Theory of Law. He had just returned
public interest, which enable initiatives and translation and were accessible in Sign from a postdoc in Constitutional Law in
events such as the VII International Seminar Language. The Seminar will be made Germany. Idealist, he had the ambition to
. Then Patricia Rousseaux, director of the available online on the digital platforms form a new generation of holistic jurists,
magazine and platform arte!brasileiros, of arte!brasileiros and Sesc São Paulo. interested in the common good, at a
stressed that “we are no longer in a position Read the coverage of the VII International significant moment in Brazilian society:
to exercise only contemplation: art and Seminar on the following pages. the resumption of democracy through our
culture are intertwined in a democracy.” new citizen Constitution, which holds all
The theme of the first day’s table was DemoCraCY in movement the fundamental and necessary rights for
Abyss and Seam, a reference to the Born in 1969, at the height of the civil-military the construction of a just and egalitarian
bottomless pit into which Brazil seems to dictatorship, daughter of an opposition State and society; a phratry, in the voice of
have fallen in the last (almost) ten years, politician, Paula Macedo Weiss was able Caetano Veloso. This professor managed to
since the so-called June Journeys took to experience very closely the process of ignite our group’s imagination and captivate
place in 2013. The vilification of politics, the redemocratization and the resumption of us with the beauty and complexity of the
seizure of power by the extreme right and the full democracy in Brazil with the advent of structure and functioning of the modern
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