Thematic visits with the Bienal education team

On December 9 and 10, there will be a series of thematic visits proposed by Bienal’s education team, wich consists in tours of the exhibition with specific focuses developed by the mediation team based on the research and interests that emerged during the training course.

Go to the Mediation Space (green floor), near the entrance to the exhibition, to register 1 hour before the start of the visit. Subject to capacity (group of up to 20 people). The theme visits happen every Saturday and Sunday until the end of the exhibition, at 11 am and 3 pm.

Duration: 2h

November 4 (Saturday), 11 am
Encruzilhadas e ancestralidades [Crossroads and ancestry]
mediation: Leonel Vicente Mendes
The visit aims to discuss similarities and differences between elements present in the symbols and objects of some ethnic groups, mainly from Guinea-Bissau, and works featured in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, such as those by Ibrahim Mahama and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro. Rites and ceremonies will be discussed, such as weddings, funerals, celebrations and other events, which aim to create a link between materiality and collective spirituality.

November 4 (Saturday), 3 pm
A 35ª Bienal através dos sentidos do corpo [35th Bienal through the senses of the body]
mediation: Anali Dupré, Andre Pereira de Almeida e Giuliana Takahira
Among the various choreographies of the impossible at the 35th Bienal, we find works that provoke, challenge and stimulate different senses, such as those by Ayrson Heráclito and Tiganá Santana and by Daniel Lie. Smells, touches, sounds and visualities blend together in a diverse and accessible exhibition. In addition to the works on display inside the pavilion, Ibirapuera Park also acts as a trigger, proposing other explorations through trees, grass, branches, land and water. Based on these stimuli, the action seeks to combine the internal and external spaces of the pavilion, inviting visitors to a sensory activity.

This visit is recommended for ages 15 and up, and is aimed primarily, but not exclusively, at blind and partially sighted people

November 5 (Sunday), 11 am
Aqui, onde deságua o rio [Here, where the river flows]
mediation: Camila Padilha Gomes
The presence of the pavilion in Ibirapuera Park conflicts with the main characteristic of the ground on which we stand: a concrete cube floating in a wetland area. What colonial apparatuses were set up here to turn this marshland, once part of indigenous land, into a landscape? Can looking back at the park create communications with other times in the territory we are in? With other beings who lived here? And with the works that make up the 35th Bienal today? Based on the choreography of the Sapateiro river, which fills the Ibirapuera lakes, we will dialogue with the works, such as those by Edgar Calel and Rosana Paulino, to discuss how interventions in space condition the movements of our bodies.

November 5 (Sunday), 3 pm
Vadiação do impossível [Loitering the impossible]
mediation: Bruno Costa dos Santos, Kennedy Maciel da Silva e Rose Mara Kielela
Capoeira, liberation struggle, war dance, mandinga of enslaved people yearning for freedom. The berimbau, berimbau de barriga or urucungo, an African instrument now associated with capoeira in Brazil, historically associated with storytelling and its use in fairs and trades on the African continent and Afro-diasporic countries. The mandinga, the secret, what is said through movement, through the gaze, through song, that which subverts, does not allow itself to be captured and keeps alive the wisdom generated in the roda, passed down from generation to generation. Articulating these elements of capoeiragem and their stories, we will pass through the works relating them to the musicality and history of capoeira, especially Capoeira Angola, in a conversation between different Afro-diasporic traditions and arts, through a musical procession that will form the basis of the dialogue between visitors and works.

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Thematic visits with the Bienal education team
35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
November 4 and 5, 2023
Saturday – Sunday, 11 am and 3 pm
mediation space, green floor
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
Av. Pedro Alvares Cabral, s/n
São Paulo, SP
free admission