KOMBI - Fragments of a tropical imaginary

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KOMBI, Fragments of a tropical imaginary, is an Approach Program between professionals in the living arts, national and international, which aims to create new spaces for communication, connection and circulation.

In the first edition of PAPOS de KOMBI, at FarOFFa on the sofa, we had this meeting, and we had a guiding question every day. Different professionals were invited to answer the following questions:

1 - Is it feasible to think of a new ethics of doing together?

2 - Do we need a new common?

3 - Care, is it a path to possible futures?

For the second edition, at the invitation of JUNTA - Teresina International Dance Festival, the PAPOS de KOMBI come back with new questions, and we invite Ibero-American artists, who are part of a recently launched research of cultural mapping, inspiring practices ( de) (das) (las) artes alive (en) (na) iberoamérica , coordinated by Ricardo Klein, financed by GREC 2020 (Barcelona International Theater Festival) to answer them. We start from the cut of residences, which is a work dynamics very well known and explored by all countries in this context, except Brazil. Bringing this provocation, we seek collectives, groups and artists who focus on this way of doing and creating to answer these questions:

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1 - How to decolonize our interest?

2 - Why are the distances between Latin America greater? Is it possible to think of a Latin American cultural policy?

We are looking forward to the next chats !!!!!

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Welcome to the Kombi!

Between 11th and 13th of August, FarOFFa organizes KOMBI - Fragments of a tropical imaginary, a program to bring together performing arts professionals with the aim of promoting the meeting and opening doors to new partnerships, collaborations and ways of working.

Those interested in participating should register until August 13th - 10 AM (BRT).

The Kombi Program consists of 2 actions:

1 - KOMBI TALKS

Through 3 meetings, we invited performing arts professionals from Brazil and several other countries to discuss and present points of view about their performance in pandemic times and their perspectives in the field of cultural action, alongside with the audience.

08/11 (Tuesday) - 10am to 12pm (Brasilia Time) – Is Cuidadoria* a way to build possible futures?

Confirmed participants: Cecilia Kuska (Buenos Aires - Argentina), Felipe de Assis (Salvador - Brazil), MJ Chung (Seoul - South Korea) and Vanessa Viscarra (Lima - Peru)

Mediation: Pedro de Freitas (São Paulo - Brazil)

*Cuidadoria is a pun with the words curatorship and care in Portuguese.

08/12 (Wednesday) - 10am to 12pm (Brasilia Time)- How to trace a new ethics of making things together?

Confirmed participants: Alejandro Clavier (Lima - Peru), Andrea Caruso Saturnino (São Paulo - Brazil) and Iva Horvat (Barcelona - Spain)

Mediation: Luh Mazza (São Paulo - Brazil)

08/13 (Thursday) - 10am to 12pm (Brasilia Time) - Do we need a new Common?

Confirmed participants: Camila Urioste (Sucre - Bolivia), Carmen Romero (Santiago - Chile), Cordelia Grieson (London - England) Damian Cervantes (Ciudad de Mexico - México) and Gerardo Salinas (Brussels - Belgium)

Mediation: Celso Curi (São Paulo - Brazil)

2 - SHOWCASE OF SPECTACLES

40 shows, of different languages, that present a large sample of Brazilian artistic production and will offer the public a possibility of watching shows in repertoire, as well as historical productions.

Download KOMBI's showcase catalogue in Portuguese (click here) and Spanish and English (click here)