ENCONTRO EM CONJUNTO 01
Matias Santiago (Salvador/BA) + Rafaela Izeli (Salvador/BA)
A drill on the beach. Resistance and confusion.
What to do when you only have one sarong?
And when we don’t even have a sarong?
Looking for survival strategies in the desert.
At a time of inevitable global warming, climate emergencies and possible rises in sea levels, we are faced with uncertainty on our beaches and occupying the sands increasingly seems like a practice of resistance. Added to this, there are so many light stimuli to which we are subjected and which continually monitor us – projectors, cell phone screens, televisions and surveillance cameras – and so many state and social machinery to which we must adapt, that our possibilities of resisting seem increasingly obfuscated. Where would our power of imagination be? Even if small, defeated, our tiny efforts make our way of imagining a condition for our way of doing politics. “Imagination is political”, said Didi-Huberman (2011) in “The Survival of the Fireflies”. Imagination as a producer of images to organize our pessimism, protest against the totalizing beams of light and make the fireflies, the small points of hope, share their desires and resist.
When you only have one sarong, what can you imagine?
DATE: 11/07, THU
TIME: 4pm to 6pm
LOCATION: Cabana Corais, Praia da Concha, Itacaré/BA
Matias Santiago
Matias Santiago is a teacher, dancer, choreographer and cultural manager. He holds a PhD in Dance from PPGDança-UFBA, is an Arts Professor at Rede Municipal de Educação de Salvador, a Professor of the undergraduate course in Dance in the distance learning modality at UFBA and is the Artistic Director of Balé Jovem de Salvador.
Rafaela Izeli
Rafaela Izeli is an architect and urban planner, a PhD student in the Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, in collaboration with the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Paris-La Villette, a member of Laboratório Urbano and a member of the collective research Cronologia do Pensamento Urbanístico, since 2017.
