{"id":6775,"date":"2026-04-27T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/7\/?page_id=6775"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:24:05","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/7\/glossary\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  • \"\"
    Hendu (listening in Guarani) word brought by Sandra Benites
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Devolver a terra \u00e0 terra [To Return Earth Unto Earth] \u2013 A proposal of H\u00e9lio Oiticica with C\u00e9sar Oiticica Filho
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Opening the event and conversation circle
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Sandra Benites
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
  • \"\"
    Dayana Gusm\u00e3o
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Iazana Guizzo
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Alice Poppe
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Master musician Pedro Lima
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Suellen Cloud and friends
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Public art \u2013 the heart of the Company
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Conversation circle opening ritual with Guilherme Vergara
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Jo\u00e3o Paulo Lima Barreto (Tukano)
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Ana Luiza Nobre and Brenda Vit\u00f3ria
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Caroline Valansi
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Jialu Pombo listens to a reading of words associated with \u201cground\u201d
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Felipe Eug\u00eanio
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Cesar Oiticica Filho listens to a reading of words associated with \u201cground\u201d
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Danielle Pena
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Sign language interpreter Rian Penha Marins interprets words associated with \u201cground\u201d
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    L\u00edgia Veiga plays the conch shell calling people to the conversation circle
    Launch of the 7th edition on October 4th, 2025 and (11-20) conversation circle \u201cArt and Health at the Ground Level\u201d on November 5th, 2025. Both events were held at the Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades: Photos: Guar\u00e1 do Vale<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

    Glossary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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    Affect(ion), <\/em>bahsese (medicinal repertoires in indigenous Tukano culture), continuity, conversation circle, counter-cartography, co(reo)listening, care, crossroads, denunciation, experimentation, favelophagy, forest, ground, guardians of knowledge, <\/em>hendu (listening in Guarani), I can be who I am, landguages, mycelium and mystery, patience, radiochoreography, reparation, rewriting, resistances, respect, sea breeze, security, sunset,<\/em> swinging body, technologies of the earth, territory, viv\u00eancia (lived experience), welcoming<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These thirty word-expression-concepts were edited from transcriptions of the conversation circles held as part of the program launch of the 7th edition of Revista<MESA>Platform <\/em>\u201cBody Ground Heart\u201d. Speakers were invited to bring a word-expression to the circle. The events took place in various cultural and independent spaces in the cities of Niter\u00f3i and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) between September and December 2025:  Auditorium of the Graduate Program in Contemporary Studies of the Arts, Federal Flumiense University, Gragoat\u00e1, Niter\u00f3i; Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades (homebase of the street procession and theater collective Grande Companhia Brasileira de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades), Gamboa, RJ; Casa Resist\u00eancias (cultural center and shelter for LGBT women) Mar\u00e9 favela, RJ; H\u00e9lio Oiticica Municipal Art Center, City Center RJ; and Tropigalp\u00e3o, Gl\u00f3ria, RJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Presented here in an expanded glossary format as a new collective contribution to the 8th issue of MESA<\/em>, these word-expressions are resonant, soulful, utopian, and grounded. Eco-ethical-esthetic reflections, they propose an ecosystem of voices, practices, pathways, and politics for a global alternative, sensibilities to live and act by in this (im)possible world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We are immensely grateful to the authors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Alice Poppe; Ana Luiza Nobre; Angela Mascelani; Anna Carolina Vicentini Zacharias; Brenda Vit\u00f3ria; Camilla Felipe; Carla Santana; Carolina Rodrigues; Caroline Valansi; Cesar Oiticica Filho; Danielle Pena; Dayana Gusm\u00e3o; Diana Kolker; Eloah Van de Beuque; Erika Tambke; Felipe Eugenio; Iazana Guizzo; Jialu Pombo; Jo\u00e3o Paulo Lima Barreto; Jorge Menna Barreto; Kimberly Veiga; Lohana Karla; Lucas Van de Beuque; Maria Carolina; Mar\u00edlia Felipe; Sandra Benites; Sara Ramos; Suellen Cloud; Ta\u00edsa Vit\u00f3ria; Tania Rivera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Special thanks as well to Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades and Casa Resist\u00eancias for their partnership and to Centro Municipal de Arte H\u00e9lio Oiticica, Guerrilha da Paz, Imagens do Povo, Museu Bispo do Rosario and Tropigalp\u00e3o for their support and collaboration as well as to the university initiatives: Floresta Cidade FAU\/UFRJ, PPGCA and LAARTE of UFF and UC Santa Cruz Office of Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Additional thanks to the organizations and authors, as well as the artists, individuals, and institutions who collaborated and\/or facilitated access to images and other audiovisual material for the 7th edition of Revista Mesa<\/em> highlighted here in the Glossary: Ana Luiza Nobre, Ana Julia Souza Teodoro, Carla Guagliardi, Cesar Oiticica Filho, Denilson Baniwa, Erika Tambke, Jorge Menna Barreto e Pedro Leal, Jhony Aguiar, Patricia Ruth, Rian Penha, Suellen Cloud, Ta\u00edsa Vit\u00f3ria, Museu Bispo do Rosario, Pinacoteca S\u00e3o Paulo, Sert\u00e3o Negro and especially to Guar\u00e1 do Vale for his photography of the events at Casa de Myst\u00e9rios e Novidades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Affect(ion)<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    I’d like to speak a little about the process that has brought us all here \u2013 the collective and collaborative making behind the photo essay documenting the LGBT community of Casa Resist\u00eancias [House\/home of Resistences] \u2013 that we are celebrating today with this small exhibition,  opening, and discussion circle. I think what makes this meeting today so beautiful, is to have followed the process, selecting the photographs, reading the text. When Jessica [Gogan] contacted me, I was coordinator of Imagens do Povo [Peoples\u2019 Images], a photography organization based in the Mar\u00e9 favela [in the north of Rio de Janeiro]. The organization comprises several initiatives, one of which is the Escola de Fotografia Popular [School of Popular Photography] where Suellen [Cloud, photographer of the Casa Resist\u00eancias essay] was also a student and whose work is now included as part of the Imagens do Povo archive. When Jessica contacted us, we knew we would need to select a female photographer, and Suellen loved the idea and was very happy with the invitation to accompany and document life at Casa de Resist\u00eancias. The value of these kinds of projects is very much about the commitment to process. It’s not about coming here for a day and a half and doing whatever you want to do. It’s a construction, it’s a dialogue, it’s about truly accompanying. Suellen already knew of the Casa Resist\u00eancias. She didn’t just parachute in. So, she was able to engage in a dialogue and develop a photographic documentation that was woven together with Bia and Kimberly [Beatriz Virg\u00ednia Gomes Belmiro and Kimberly Veiga, Casa collaborators who wrote the text to accompany the visual essay]. Constructing collectively how the text and images would emerge was key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    During this process we exchanged so many ideas, the possibility of the photos being displayed at Casa Resist\u00eancias was always something that motivated us a lot. [During the project I left Imagens de Povo], so, I was no longer in the coordination role, but I continued to accompany the project because we were all very emotionally involved; we were all eager to see what would happen. And Suellen was also happy about it. She’s very sad that she can’t be here today; she obviously would like to be here at this moment, but she’s pregnant and the doctor has recommended rest, but she’s here with us in her photos. She\u2019s part of this energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In choosing the photos we went through various selection processes, thinking about aesthetic issues, of course, but also, very importantly, community ones. For this display we thought about exhibiting images throughout the Casa. We liked the idea, for example, of starting with a collective photo and then also with images of current and potential future leaders of the Casa community. They too may have one of their portraits on the wall in future exhibitions. I think that there is a conversation here between these images. It’s also great today to have a whiteboard mural open to everyone to write on and answer the question from the essay title \u201cWhat is this Ground on Which I Step?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Casa has a history. Mar\u00e9 too. And then there’s this collaboration between Instituto Mesa and Imagens do Povo. Today we are celebrating the fruit of the many years of work behind building the Casa. With our collaboration and this event, we hope that we can contribute and be part of this construction. So, when I began to think of a word, it came to me very readily, which has a lot to do with what we talk about when we talk about popular philosophy, and with this collaborative process that we developed over this past year: the word affect(ion)<\/em>.\u00b2 I think affect(ion) <\/em>is what mobilizes us. Popular photography is very concerned with not taking photographs in the style of photojournalism; it’s concerned with complicit making between the photographer and subject \u2013 a photo in which people feel represented and respected, where there’s a dialogue. So, I think this is very much about the idea of affect(ion)<\/em>. The Casa is a space of affect(ion)<\/em>, of welcoming, of strength, of encouragement, as well as, of course, a lot of activism. But sisterhood is built first through affect(ion)<\/em>. It’s a joy to be here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n