I don’t know what to say, but I really want you to listen to me is a unique edited collection of essays, dialogues and chronicles by artists, psychoanalysts, researchers, and therapists at the interfaces of art and care in the contemporary.  The result of postdoctoral research and the transdisciplinary seminar “Shells, Sieves, Hems: Artistic, Clinical and Caring Practices in the Contemporary” organized by Jessica Gogan and offered in the Graduate Program in Contemporary Arts Studies (PPGCA) at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) in the second semester of 2022, art is here explored as a practice of listening, sieving, and sewing and as a relational apparatus of setting in motion. Offering a plurality of theory, practice, critical reflections and poetic possibilities, the book embraces the generative potential of this setting in motion as the “singular state of art without art”, as Brazilian artist Lygia Clark advanced, an art that manifests in counter movements, gerunds, and the in-between.

Authors: Amanda Soriano, Ana Goldenstein, Anna Carolina Vicentini, Beatriz Galhardo, Bianca Araujo, Bruna Pinna, Camila Huhn, Cezar Migliorin, Chloé Brune, Cristina Ribas, Daniela Avellar, Diana Kolker, Eduardo Passos, Gabriela Serfaty, Gisella V. Mello, Isabela Santilli, Izabela Pucu, Lucas Alberto, Luiz Guilherme Vergara, Marcelle Ferrete, Mariana Guimarães, Mariana Marcassa, Natasha Felix, Rafael Mayer, Rafael Zacca, Sandra Benites, Sara Ramos, Tania Rivera, Tato Taborda, Vanessa Alves e Walmira Oliveira.