AF Rodriguez/Imagens do Povo, Street Protest in Maré, 2013
Credits & Acknowledgements
Revista MESA
Editors
Jessica Gogan
Luiz Guilherme Vergara
Coordinator
Jessica Gogan
Executive Producer
Sabrina Curi
Editorial Assistant
Taisa Moreno
Site Design
Monocromo
MESA Visual Identity
Dupla design
Press Officer
Bárbara Chataignier
1st Issue: Territories and Practices in Process
Cover Images
José Rufino. Memorabilia (polyptych), 2010. Acrylic ink silkscreens on old lined notepaper combining handwritten statements, impressions, poems, notes, documents, and forms collected from patients, caregivers, staff, and researchers affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center. Prints are overlaid with monotype tempera and acrylic Rorschach-style inkblots created in partnership with the artist, several patients and their families and affiliated ADRC staff. Photo: Richard Stoner
Documentation of the installation TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape by students in the photography course at Spectaculu – School of Art and Technology. Leopoldina station, Rio de Janeiro, September 26th, 2012. Photos: Kelly Malheiros. In partnership with Spectaculu.
Leonardo Guelman. The House of Miracles, 2013
Ratão Diniz/Imagens do Povo, 2009
Editorial
Jessica Gogan
Luiz Guilherme Vergara
Think Piece
Tania Rivera
“Art in the World”
National Case Studies
8th Mercosul Biennial
Essay
Jessica Gogan and Luiz Guilherme Vergara
“A Collection of Multiple Voices: The 8th Mercosul Biennial and Pedagogy in an Expanded Field”
Video
“A Collection of Multiple Voices: Encounters with the 8th Mercosul Biennial”
Camera
André de Oliveira
Editing
Leandro Almeida
Translation
Carolina Alfaro de Carvalho
Encounters with Ernesto Neto’s work TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape, 2012
Introduction
“Creatures made by us”
Essays
Anita Sobar
“Pearl Diver”
Bernardo Zabalaga
“The Body of an Encounter”
Bianca Bernardo
“The Body of Memories: Affective Bonds Stitched in the Time we are Together: Papel Pinel visita oBichoSuspensoNaPaisaGen TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape”
Virgínia Kastrup
“Becoming and Aesthetic Accessibility: A Guided Experience with the Blind and Seeing”
International Case Studies
Deveron Arts
Claudia Zeiske
“The Town is the Venue: Art, Community and Place”
Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Nuno Sacramento
“Makers’ Meal and the Production of the New Common”
Article
Jessica Gogan
“Curare: José Rufino Blots & Figments”
Photo Essay
Leonardo Guelman
“The Unique World of the House of Miracles”
Vídeo Interview
“The Authentic New Carioca” with Jailson de Souza e Silva
Photography: Imagens do Povo
AF Rodrigues
Bira Carvalho
Elisângela Leite
Fábio Caffé
Fagner França
Ingrid Cristina
JV Santos
Léo Lima
Léo Melo
Márcia Farias
Monara Barreto
Naldinho Lourenço
Nando Dias
Paulo Barros
Ratão Diniz
Rovena Rosa
Rosilene Miliotti
Rubia Pella
Thiago Diniz
Veri-vg
Vitor Madeira
Additional Photography
Travessias: Gabi Carrera and Janis Clémen
MAC: Maria Ignês Guimarães and Roberta Condeixa
MAM: Jessica Gogan and Marta Mestre
Camera and Editing
Leandro Almeida
Translation
Carolina Alfaro de Carvalho
Copy Editing
Itamar Rigueira Jr. (Portuguese)
Sherrie Flick (English)
Additional copy editing (Portuguese): Luiza Toschi
Translation
Jessica Gogan (Portuguese to English)
Marise Barros (English to Portuguese)
Steve Berg (English to Portuguese/José Rufino article)
Copyright
Articles are the full responsibility of the respective authors. No reproduction in full or in part is permitted without their permission. All rights reserved.
No copying or reproduction of the images or videos here included in full or in part is allowed without author permission.
Acknowledgements
André de Oliveira, André Dunham Maciel Siaines de Castro, Anita Sobar, Artist Image Resource, Ateliê José Rufino, Automática, Bernardo Zabalaga, Bianca Bernardo, Caliban Books, Carmen Riquelme, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Claudia Zeiske, Dupla design, Embaixada do Brasil em Washington D.C., Erika Tambke, Ernesto Neto, Gustavo Cruz Ferraz, Esther Marco Wenna, Fábio Caffé, Fred Evans, Heather White, Imagens do Povo, Instituto Benjamin Constant, Janis Clémen, Jailson de Souza e Silva, Joana Mazza, John Schulman, José Rufino, Leandro Almeida, Leonardo Guelman, Liane Strapazzon, Maria Ignês Guimarães, Marta Mestre, Mônica Hoff, Pablo Heguera, Curatorial and Pedagogic teams of the 8th Mercosul Biennial and all involved in the project “A collection of multiple voices” (Alissa Gottfried, Alexia Tala, André da Rocha, André Vilmar Mers, Andréa Paiva Nunes Andressa Argenta, Denis Fromer Nicola, Diana Kolker Carneiro da Cunha, Emanuel Silveira Alves, Ethiene Nachtigall, Fernanda Albuquerque, Fernanda Ott, Gabriel Bartz, Gabriela Silva, Greg Pierce, Julia Coelho, José Roca, Liane Strapazzon, Luiza Mendonça, Lucas Brolese, Márcia Tomaseli, Márcia Wander, Maria Aparecida Aliano Marques, Maria Helena Gaidzinski, Marilia Schmitt Fernandes, Marizangela Secco, Marlene Montagner, Mateo Lopez, Michele Zgiet, Oliver Kochta, Paula Cristina Luersen, Paula Krause, Rafael Silveira, Rodrigo Nunes, Roger Kichalowsky, Tatiana Rosa, Tiago Giora), Paulo Hauss, Núcleo de Pesquisa Cognição & Coletivos (NUCC)/UFRJ, Nuno Sacramento, Observatório de Favelas, Papel Pinel, The Andy Warhol Museum (especially Abby Franzen Sheehan, Eric Shiner, Greg Burchard and Tresa Varner), Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói (MAC), Ratão Diniz, Renata Montechiare, Robert Beckman, Roberta Condeixa, Spectaculu, Tania Rivera, Terence Smith, Thomas Sokolowski, Universidade Federal Fluminense, University of Pittsburgh Alzheimer Disease Research Center (especially Jennifer Lingler, Judith Saxton, Leslie Dunn, MaryAnn Oakley, Oscar Lopez and Rick Morycz, patients and caregivers Donna and Lee Strawbridge and Nancy Stabryla and all the team involved Beth Sarles, Lori Macedonia, Patty Henderson and Thomas Baumgartner), Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh Center for Latin American Studies (especially Kathleen DeWalt), Global Academic Partnership Initiative sponsored by Office of the Provost, Global Studies Program, and University Center for International Studies, and School of Medicine (especially Dr. Arthur S. Levine and Margaret McDonald), Virgínia Kastrup and Xico Chaves.
