The topics of decolonization, decolonialism, and post-colonialism frequently appear in academic and artistic spaces. But how can we decolonize without altering the vertical structures of power organization, without transforming academic structures that reflect forms of colonial domination, and without questioning the capitalist economic structure that promotes scarcity and thrives on it? A structure that elevates some people at the expense of others? With hegemonic systems of economy and knowledge in place, and as both states and individuals race to be part of their select group, is it truly possible to break free from colonization? These are the challenging questions posed by artist and researcher Marinho Pina in the context of the 8th edition of Conversas (In)seguras. This time, the event takes place at Casa do Comum, continuing the nomadic and transhumance nature that characterizes
these types of gatherings.
Organization: Gustavo Vicente, Maíra Santos & Gisela Dória
Date: November 15th, 6 PM
Location: Casa do Comum
Language: Portuguese
Bio: Marinho Pina, amateur lazy person (with hopes of professionalization). He is a transdisciplinary artist and storyteller in several media: performance, dance, writes, plays, sings, poets, architecture, draws, sleeps, etcetera, even on weekends and holidays. He was a bricklayer and paver, now he wanders around donquixoting, fighting decolonial, descolonials, neo-colonials, anti-colonials, counter-colonials, retro-colonials, what-ever colonials windmills here and there, and he couldn’t find a better place for this than academia(not the gym, forhavenssake). He is also an architect and research assistant at DINÂMIA’CET–ISCTE where he is pursuing a doctorate on Sacred Spaces in Bissau. Raised with stories and laughter, he believes in the freedom and the power of the communion found in active and collective migration between listening and speaking. (Un)safe Conversations began as a series of online conferences featuring artists, academics, and other invited thinkers, focused on artistic studies. This initiative was one of the strategies of the Theatre Studies Center to explore new ways of being and thinking together in the pandemic context while maintaining a stimulating flow of academic discussions. Following the easing of social restrictions, the series adopted an in-person format, preserving the appetite for the bolder and more imaginative side of live conversations. Center of Theater Studies (www.ceteatro.pt) has served as a privileged platform for artistic research and the training of theatre researchers since 1994. It is an organic unit of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon (FLUL), with several of its members affiliated, alongside researchers and collaborators from other universities and schools across the country, as well as PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and theatre professionals.
This work is financed by national funds through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under projects UIDB/00279/2020 and UIDP/00279/2020.
