The guest curators of the 20th Festival conduct guided tours of the exhibition, accompanied by specialists in areas related to its core themes. The tours, which end in open lectures, expand the notion of the search for new worldviews by crossing the boundaries between art and science, recurrent among the works of the 20th Festival.

With the purpose of problematizing contemporary art as a space for listening and acknowledging traumatic historical experiences, the meeting will address processes of perpetuation of violence, the production of a counter-discourse to “official” historical narratives, the issue of representation, and the desire to create memory by restoring, in the present, exterminated histories.

Ana Pato (Brazil) is a curator and researcher with a doctorate from the Universidade de São Paulo’s School of Architecture and Urbanism. She was chief curator of the 3rd Bienal da Bahia (2014) and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. She is the author of the book Literatura expandida: arquivo e citação na obra de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Edições Sesc/ Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2012).

Márcio Seligmann-Silva (Brazil) has a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale and a full professor of literary theory at Unicamp. He is the author of O local da diferença (Editora 34, 2005) and A atualidade de Walter Benjamin e de Theodor W. Adorno (Editora Civilização Brasileira, 2009). He has been a visiting professor at universities in Argentina, Germany, and Mexico.

Through contemporary art, the meeting discusses how constructed space is renewed and behaves under constraints other than those verifiable in environments that faithfully echoed the modern paradigm. More than stressing a peripheral modernity, it is about perceiving spaces conceived through appropriations, resistances, and inventions distinct from the Western hegemonic aesthetic and social project.

Diego Matos (Brazil) is a researcher and curator with a master’s degree and doctorate from FAU USP. He was assistant curator of the 29th Bienal de São Paulo (2010), member of the Research and Curatorship Center of Instituto Tomie Ohtake, assistant curator of the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2013), and Archive and Research coordinator at Associação Cultural Videobrasil.

Guilherme Wisnik (Brazil) is a professor at Universidade de São Paulo’s School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU USP). He is the author of books such as Lucio Costa (Cosac Naify, 2001) and Estado crítico: à deriva nas cidades (Publifolha, 2009). He was curator of the Margem public art project (Itaú Cultural, 2008–2010) and chief curator of the 10th Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo (2013).

Through contemporary art, the meeting discusses how constructed space is renewed and behaves under constraints other than those verifiable in environments that faithfully echoed the modern paradigm. More than stressing a peripheral modernity, it is about perceiving spaces conceived through appropriations, resistances, and inventions distinct from the Western hegemonic aesthetic and social project.

Beatriz Lemos (Brazil) is a curator and researcher. She holds a master’s degree in social history of culture and is the creator of the Lastro – intercâmbios livres em arte research platform. She coordinated the project to catalog the documents and oeuvre of Márcia X (1959–2005). From 2015 to 2016, she took part in the Visiting Curator program of the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts.