Decolonial Movements Extension Program: practices, dialogues and the feeling of thinking.
Coordinated by Prof. Cláudia Mortari (History Department).
1st Action – Armazém Coletivo Elza fair, coordinated by Prof. Juliana Crispe.
The Armazém Coletivo Elza fair aims to showcase handicrafts, art, fashion and cultural productions by black and indigenous women, as well as people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The fairs began in 2016 at the ‘Armazém Coletivo Elza’ Cultural Space with the aim of embracing fairgoers who find themselves without an exhibition space or who can’t afford the high prices of the elitist fairs in Florianópolis. Since 2022, the fairs have become nomadic, and the aim of holding them at UDESC is to bring students, teachers and the community closer to producers who carry special knowledge, in the face of two ancestries and experiences. The action is based on transdisciplinarity, interculturality and intersectionality. It is planned to hold three fairs per semester throughout the biennium.
2nd Action – Poetics of Relation Exhibition Circuit Project, coordinated by Prof. Juliana Crispe.
The Circuit of Exhibitions – ‘Poetics of Relation’ aims to promote the circulation and dissemination of post-colonial and decolonial science and culture, with an emphasis on African, Afro-diasporic, indigenous, feminist and diversity themes, through art exhibitions. ‘Poetics of Relation’ recalls the thinking of Eduardo Glissant when he tells us that contact between cultures reflects the effects of colonization in the contemporary world and that all identity unfolds in a relationship with the other. The subjectivities presented in the exhibitions aim to show through art that modernity, defined exclusively by imperialist Europe, has encountered obstacles and has come to an end, opening up space for protagonisms that have been crushed and hidden in our history, reverberating in the now the contaminations of differences and recognizing the abysses placed over these experiences. Rhizomatic, these poetics have their roots in many territories, beliefs, sexualities, uses of the body, and branch out and grow in the encounter with other surfaces, other cultures, rituals, the right to the body, social, educational, cultural and political space.The Circuit’s exhibitions will be held annually and may take place in more than one cultural space per year. The artists who take part will be selected through an open call for submissions and by curators. Black, indigenous, women and LGBTQIA+ artists will be selected; groups on the margins and historically invisible in the arts. The aim is to organize visits to the exhibitions by teachers and students from municipal and state schools.
3rd Action – 3rd International Post-Colonial and Decolonial Meeting (EPD), coordinated by Prof. Cláudia Mortari.
The event, held in person, aims to promote post-colonial and decolonial scientific and cultural production, circulation and dissemination, with an emphasis on African, Afro-diasporic and indigenous themes, intersected with LGBTQIAP+, gender, interracial and class themes. The aim is to encourage innovation, exchange and the production of plural epistemologies and transformative practices in the field of the Humanities, Education and Art among researchers, teachers and students from the undergraduate and postgraduate education network, social movements and black, African and indigenous collectives and artivists. There are plans to hold Round Tables, Contemporary Dialogues (Conferences), Thematic Symposia, a Music Festival, an Exhibition Circuit, a Solidarity Fair and book launches. In line with the event’s central objective of production, enhanced by its international character and the possibilities of circulating knowledge using information and communication technologies, the debates arising from the round tables and contemporary dialogues will be made available virtually through the institutional channel, Youtube Laboratório, making the audience reach much wider.The transdisciplinary event is in its 3rd edition and will be held in the 2nd semester of 2025, in conjunction with other extension programs developed at the AYA.
Extension Program African and Indigenous Histories: views and practices in education.
Coordinated by Prof. Filipe Noé da Silva (History Department).
1st Action – Plural Histories Project, coordinated by Prof. Cláudia Mortari.
It involves the production of short films of between 25 and 40 minutes about local histories in Santa Catarina, with the themes proposed in the program as the guiding axis for the narratives. The main objective is to disseminate historical narratives aimed at a wide audience, articulating knowledge from different fields of knowledge, especially the social, human and political sciences, from the perspective of transdisciplinarity, interculturality and intersectionality. Two short films will be produced and released annually.
2nd Action – AYAcast Project, coordinated by Prof. Filipe Noé da Silva.
It involves producing a podcast of interviews and storytelling. The aim of the interviews (Aya Conversa) is to interview professors, researchers, political activists, artists and artivists who carry out actions in the post-colonial and decolonial field. Storytelling is the production of scripted narratives based on the research carried out by the AYA Laboratory, involving professors, undergraduate and postgraduate students and associated researchers. The main objective is to disseminate historical narratives aimed at a wide audience, articulating knowledge from different fields of knowledge, especially the social, human and political sciences, from the perspective of transdisciplinarity, interculturality and intersectionality. 08 storytelling and 16 interviews are planned.
3rd Action – Jornada das Religiões de Matriz Africana project, coordinated by Prof. Claudia Mortari.
The aim is to disseminate, disseminate and build knowledge about cosmogonies, epistemologies, philosophies and narratives from African and Afro-diasporic histories. The event, which will be planned from the 2nd semester of 2024, will be held in the 2nd semester of 2025.
Olhares, vozes e memórias: saberes africanos e indígenas Extension Program
Coordinated by Prof. Luisa Tombini Wittmann (History Department).
Action 1: AYA Laboratory Portal, coordinated by Prof. Luisa Tombini Wittmann.
This is a permanent project of the AYA – Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Laboratory, which aims to research, collect and make available on a digital platform materials (imagery, sound, audiovisual and written) on African, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous themes. It is aimed at teachers, students, social movement activists and other interested parties. E-mail: ayalaboratorio.com.
Action 2: AYA Collection, coordinated by Prof. Luisa Tombini Wittmann.
This involves the organization, production, publication and dissemination (in online format) of: 2 Ebooks, 1 exhibition catalog and teaching material in the form of workshops on historical sources (imagery and text) on African, Afro-Brazilian and indigenous themes. The main aim is to disseminate the material to teachers, researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students and other interested people.
Action 3: Terreiros de Matriz Africana Repository, coordinated by Prof. Cláudia Mortari.
Its aim is to list, collect and make available on a digital platform materials (images, sound, audiovisual and written) about African-origin religious sites in Greater Florianópolis. This action is aimed at school teachers, students, social movement activists and other interested parties. The repository will be located at ayalaboratorio.com
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