Page 109 - artebrasileiros-66

via WhatsApp, as revealed by journalist thE MilitarY CouP oF aPril 1, 1964 Another institution whose trajectory
Patrícia Campos Mello, unlike previous inaugurated a long period of authoritarianism, is closely linked to antagonism towards
cases, where Facebook was the most used repression, abuse and violence in the the dictatorship – being even listed by
media for sharing information. country. Officially, the regime lasted 21 the municipality and state of São Paulo
With all this, the debate on the years. But its echoes and consequences as a “place of memory of resistance” – is
control of social networks becomes are felt to this day, intensified by the the MariAntonia Center. On view from
increasingly urgent, considering that it recent authoritarian deviations of the Jair March 19th, the exhibition “Landscape and
is already becoming consensual that Bolsonaro government, which culminated in power: constructions of Brazil during the
Facebook has become a network based the failed attempt at uprising and seizure of dictatorship”, focuses on a fundamental,
on the exploitation of “the human brain’s power on January 8, 2023. The resurgence but less elaborate, aspect of the effects left
attraction to discord”, as points out the of speeches (and actions) of character by more than 20 years of authoritarianism
North American journalist Max Fisher, in authoritarianism ended up expanding the in the country: the form how successive
the book The Machine of Chaos. How social symbolic dimension of the 60th anniversary military governments changed spatiality
media has reprogrammed our minds and of the civil-military movement, further in the country, consolidating a model
our world. According to him, “social media reinforcing the importance of the events of greater regional integration, very
technology has such a powerful pull on planned to reflect and address the deeds centralized planning institutions and
our psychology and our identity, and is so and effects of the coup. intensification of inequalities.
prevalent in our lives, that it transforms the First of all, there is a network of “They acted with a heavy hand, imposing
way we think, how we behave and how we institutions spread across the country a development model at any cost and
relate to each other.” whose primary function is to investigate stifling many voices”, explains José Lira,
Social networks, especially Facebook and and denounce the abuses of the period director of MariAntonia and curator of
Instagram, have become breeding grounds and which are planning major actions the exhibition together with other invited
for criminals, stimulated by algorithms that for this year, with exhibitions, debates researchers and – like him – linked to the
enhance hate speech. Miguel Lago, in an and publications. To this permanent Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of
article in Piaui magazine in February 2023, effort are added occasional exhibitions, the USp. This is a historical, documentary
“Arrest the profiles!” , pointed out how these strongly in tune with the theme, or specific exhibition, which will be divided into four
networks were essential for the 8J: “Never poetic creations, efforts of reflection and main axes, which function as layers of the
before has a Brazilian historical event been regimentation of content that help to same process: the transformation in cities
recorded from so many angles and cameras. illuminate, in historical and conceptual and ways of living, with the emergence
(…) Even before the press and authorities terms, these moments of inflection in of peripheries and the generalization of
understood what was happening, millions of history. This brings about a practical and favelas throughout the world. country; the
Bolsonaristas watched the invasion through constructive effort to remember the past as relationship between industrialization and
the attackers’ cell phones. It’s almost as if a tool – theoretical and political – so that it mining; regional integration and expansion
everything was being done by profiles solely does not haunt us permanently, combating projects, which end up being responsible
with the intention of creating content for denialism and repression. for the material prosperity of the center-
social media.” It is no coincidence that the The São Paulo Resistance Memorial, west and Amazonia and consolidate in the
councilwoman who attacked the Pinacoteca in addition to continuing its normal northeast an agricultural model supported
do Ceará speaks through her cell phone, programming, will expand beyond its by the old oligarchies; and the development
from inside the exhibition itself, as did the limits, holding events in partnership with of highways, roads, as a way of promoting
crazy people on January 8th. other institutions, such as its neighboring national integration and exploitation of
Because it is exactly this mixture of Estação Pinacoteca. On the third floor of resources. In addition to the exhibition,
discord encouraged by social networks and the building occupied by DeOpS, there which also has a specific room about São
campaigns against culture that “defenders” will be a large exhibition of Alípio Freire’s Paulo, a series of events, debates, seminars
of good customs use. If this is a war that is collection, which was recently donated to and intense educational work will be held,
here to stay, it needs and can be minimized the Memorial and which brings together a offering visits to schools and universities,
with some type of control on the networks, series of memories of the struggle, prison enhancing the effects of research that
a more than necessary debate, even more and resistance produced by the journalist, covers many themes. , such as geography,
so now with the sophistication of Generative artist and political activist . The Memorial history, social and natural sciences.
Artificial Intelligence. also forms a partnership with pUC-Sp, which The CCbb will bring, at its four
However, more than some type of control, brings the Resistances exhibition to the headquar ters (São Paulo, Belo
the progressive camp needs to continue museum space , an exhibition that tells Horizonte, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro),
with its actions in the field of culture that the story of pUC and deals with important the Arte Underdesenvolvida exhibition .
values libertarian agendas. Against the moments of the institution’s resistance to According to curator Moacir dos Anjos,
“cabinet of hate” the best strategy is the the excesses of the dictatorship. this is an investigation, from the field of
“cabinet of love” The Pernambuco Democracy Memorial, art and culture, into the challenges of
an institution opened at the end of 2022, also underdevelopment in Brazil and important
CULTURaL WaR/pOLITICS [pageS 32 TO 41] scheduled a series of actions commemorating sections of the exhibition deal with the
the date of the uprising. On April 1st, the effects and resistance to the violence of
REMEMBER NOT democracy square will be inaugurated in the coup and its subsequent hardening,
TO REPEAT Abreu e Lima (pe), the same place where the with Institutional Act no. 5 , such as the
first act of the Diretas Já movement took texts Eztetyka da Fome , by Glauber Rocha,
A series of exhibitions and events recalls 60 place, and an act in favor of democracy and and Brasil Diarréia , by Hélio Oiticica. Dos
years of the military dictatorship, revisiting repudiation of dictatorship took place. In Anjos is also preparing for the Joaquim
traumas and legacies and connecting the the following days, a literary exhibition and Nabuco Foundation, in Recife, a historical
past to recent threats to democracy the Art and Resistance exhibition will open exhibition about the Popular Culture
bY MaRIa HIRSzMaN in the new space . Movement (MCp), which was active in

9