Metamorphosis: between life and art, with Ailton Krenak and Márcio Abreu

29/01/2022, sábado, 19h

To think of metamorphosis is to gaze life in its continuity and transmutation over time. It’s to remember that in all existences, being it stone, water, butterfly or body, there’s a route and an intelligence of its own being shown in the fluidity of shape, in the relations and in the production of different significance. From this discussion and for this meeting that unites two artist intellectuals, Ailton Krenak and Márcio Abreu, we propose to think about how the construction of meanings in art and life takes place through the transformation and friction of form and content.

With Ailton Krenak (MG) e Márcio Abreu (PR)
Mediation: Carla Ávila (MS)

Ailton Krenak (MG)

Ailton Krenak is one of the biggest political leaders and intellectuals emerged during the great awakening of the indigenous peoples in Brazil, which happened from the late 1970s on. He’s also a researcher and author of texts published in compilation books in Brazil and abroad – among them, Ideas to postpone the end of the world, the best-selling Brazilian book at the International Literary Festival of Paraty (Flip) in 2019.

Márcio Abreu (PR)

Márcio Abreu is an artist, playwright, director, actor and curator, born in Rio de Janeiro. His research and creations cover the languages of theater, dance, performance, literature, audiovisual and the possible intersections between these fields. Among his most recent creations are Without Words (2021), Why don’t we live? (2019), Others (2018), Preto (2017), Us (2016), BRAZIL PROJECT (2015), Maré (2015).

Carla Ávila (MS) 

Carla Ávila is a choreographer, director, performer and a professor-artist. Holds a Doctor’s Degree in Education from University of Campinas (Unicamp) and another one in Arts from University of São Paulo (USP), she performs actions in the field of memory, orality and ancestrality in performing arts, art/education, corpography, Brazilian dances, poetical immersions and “artivism”. Carla is a professor-artist in the Performing Arts graduation, a collaborator at the Indigenous Intercultural Graduation – Teko Arandu from the Federal University of Grandes Dourados (UFGD) and artistic director of MANDI’O Group Performing Arts and Afro-Amerindians Culture.