Authors

Denilson Baniwa

Born in Barcelos, in the interior of Amazonas, Denilson Baniwa is an indigenous artist of the Baniwa people. Currently, he lives and works in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. As an activist for the rights of indigenous peoples, he has held lectures, workshops and courses since 2015, acting strongly in the south and southeast regions of Brazil and also in Bahia. He has been in exhibitions at the CCBB, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, CCSP, Centro de Artes Helio Oiticica, Museu Afro Brasil, MASP, MAR, Sidney Biennale, The Getty Museum, and others in Brazil and internationally. In addition to being a visual artist, Denilson is also an advertiser, promoter of digital culture and hacking, contributing to the construction of an indigenous imagery in various media such as magazines, films and TV series.

Durval Muniz Albuquerque Junior

Durval Muniz is a professor at the Federal Universities of Pernambuco and of Rio Grande do Norte. He has published largely on the characterization of the Brazilian Northeast in Brazilian culture in relation to gender issues, history of sensibility and social thought. His book A Invenção do Nordeste is largely considered the most important analysis of the region's imagination.

Flávia Vieira

Flávia Vieira Santos is a member, since 2011, of the faculty of the post-graduate program "Literature, Art and Contemporary Thought" at PUC-RIO. In 2012 she joined the coordination of the same course, where she has oriented monographs on the most varied themes in the areas of Literature and related disciplines. In 2015, she also started coordinating the post-graduation Lato senso "Formação do Escritor", at PUC-RIO, where she also teaches courses. She is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at PUC-RIO, where she teaches courses in Brazilian Literature, Literature Theory, and Arts, with emphasis on Culture and Contemporaneity. She holds a BA in Literature from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2000). She holds a master's degree in Literature Studies from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2003) and a doctorate in Literature Studies from the same university (2008). During her PhD, she had a research fellowship at the Université de La Sorbonne (Paris III). In 2009 and 2010 she joined the Center for Studies on Violence at Fiocruz (Claves).

Jaider Esbell

Jaider Esbell (1979-2021) was an artist and indigenous rights activist. In his works he built connections between the communal ontoepistemological values of his people, the Makuxi, and white-national imaginings of indigenous cultures. Exercising what he called Artivism, Jaider Esbell united artistic creation with the defense of indigenous and land rights. His oeuvre has been consolidated worldwide, with the participation in exhibitions such as the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and the 34th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (2021), and his work is featured in important collections such as the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Laura Harris

Laura Harris is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies and Art & Public Policy Departments in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.  She holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Analysis from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. Her writing, which has focused on experimental aesthetic and social practices in the Americas, has appeared in journals such as Social Text, Women & Performance, Criticism and sx salon.  Her first book, Experiments in Exile: C. L. R. James, Hélio Oiticica and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness, was published by Fordham University Press.

Pedro Daher

Pedro Daher is a current PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine.

Rodrigo Cardoso

Rodrigo Octávio Cardoso is a FONDECYT post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chile. PhD in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas, with a thesis on primitivism and Latin American avant-garde with post- and decolonial perspectives, he has published articles on modern Brazilian poetry, Latin-American avant-gardes and literary theory.

Salloma Salomão

Salomão Jovino is a historian, playwright and artist with a PhD from PUC-SP and is currently a researcher and teacher at the Santo André Foundation and a researcher at the Lisbon University Social Sciences Institute. His work deals with black sociability in the city of São Paulo and the inscription of Afrodiasporic culture in Brazilian history. He has written and directed plays such as A arca de Ébano (2015) and Agosto na cidade murada (2018), and offers consultancy to different black theater companies. Co-editor of Sampa Mundi Magazine and Aruanda Mundi.

Suene Honorato

Suene Honorato was born in Goiânia in 1981. She holds a PhD in Literary Theory and History from the State University of Campinas (2013). Since 2014, she has been a professor at the Literature Department of the Federal University of Ceará. In 2021, she joined the faculty of the Graduate Program in Literature at the same institution, researching indigenous literatures.

Val Souza

Val Souza (São Paulo, 1985) has a degree in Education from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, a master's degree in Dance from Universidade Federal da Bahia, and works predominantly in performance. She came to her artistic practice through the study of philosophy, cultural studies, and a strong interest in the history and iconography of black women, a fact that drives her work. Her practice incorporates photography, video, and installation through an ongoing exploration of self-exposure and subjectivity in the pursuit of empowering the black community and community of color. In 2020 she received the ZUM Photography Grant from Instituto Moreira Salles, in 2022 she was the winner and received an honorable mention in the Creative Life Before colonialism competition from Place Africa/ Black Academy in partnership with Goethe Mannheim, in 2023 she was one of those selected for the new photography program MIS/SP Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo.