"Constructing Masculinities Otherwise" Public Talks

Based on the call "Decolonizing Knowledge, Constructing Masculinities Otherwise", which mobilizes the work of the GlobalGRACE program in Brazil, the Brazilian team invited Andreza Jorge and Simonne Alves of the Maré-base dance collective, Mulheres ao Vento (Women of the Wind), together with the Dance Company Passinho Carioca, represented by Ayesca Mayara and Daniiel Ritmado, to open a dialogue about art as a transformative field of social relations and of the denaturalization of the intersectional norms, standards, and pacts of gender, committed to the protagonism of peripheralized subjects and territories. With the mediation of GG Brazil researcher, Andréa Gill, they spoke to the processes of the 2020 GlobalGRACE Artistic Residency, and shared some reflections on their collective production of the videodance "Na Manha" and how it approaches artistic and political debates on masculinities. The 2021 cohort of the Free School of Arts (ELÃ) is part of of the Brazilian actions of GlobalGRACE, carried…