November 24th
CURATORIAL DIALOGUES
Wagner Morales (Brazil)
Mihnea Mircan (Romania)
Curators Wagner Morales (Brazil) and Mihnea Mircan (Romania) will inaugurate the Curatorial Dialogues of the SESC Videobrasil Meetings with the Acidentes exhibition, in which they assemble recent artwork from the two countries, selected based on the theme of accidentality and its coincidental implications for the history of both countries. “In Brazil and in Romania, both the notion of 'reconstruction' and the conflicted relationships with the past reflect widely in contemporary artistic practice. In that sense, in both cases, the choice of works employs the concept of accident and its features of unforeseeability, wide-scale transformation, chance, and contingency,” Morales and Mircan wrote. After the exhibition, they will discuss the curatorial process that justified it.
Wagner Morales (Brazil, 1971) has been doing audiovisual work since 1995, producing documentary films, fiction, installations, and performances. He directed the Vídeo de cinema series (2003-2005), which deconstructs classic film genre clichés, and the documentary film I Like Girls in Uniform (2005), about US-based artist Coco Fusco.
Mihnea Mircan (Romania, 1976) is an artist, essayist, and one of the leading promoters of the new Romanian electronic production. The curator of MNAC / National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest since 2002, he edited Tura_bar, a contemporary culture parasite-magazine that circulated within important media vehicles, among other publications.
8:00 p.m. Exhibition: Acidentes
Auditorium and Gallery
Sample City, by Calin Dan (2003)
Un chien andalou + Fall, by Ciprian Muresan (2005)
The Trial + The Rain, by Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (2004-2005)
Auditions for a Revolution, by Irina Botea (24', 2006)
2544, by Cristian Pogacean
Deeparture, by Mircea Cantor (2005)
Merréis, by Leandro HBL (10', 2000)
Imprescindíveis, by Carlos Magno (5'22”, 2003)
Roupa para tirar retrato, by Sérgio Roizenblit (2'55”, 2004)
man.road.river., by Marcellvs L. (9'56”, 2004)
Landscape Theory, by Roberto Bellini (3'55”, 2005)
Casco, by Nuno Ramos (28', 2004)
Nanofania, by Cao Guimarães (3', 2003)
Word/World, by Cao Guimarães and Rivane Neuenschwander (8', 2001)
Da janela do meu quarto, by Cao Guimarães (5', 2004)
9:00 p.m. Debate between the curators
Auditorium
* The works of the Acidentes exhibition will remain on display at the gallery of Unidade Provisória SESC Avenida Paulista until November 26.