Research Webinar Transatlantic Modernities between Brazil and Austria Coordinators:
Prof. Ana Magalhães (Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of
São Paulo) and Prof. Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) Invited
scholars and artists: Claudia Augustat, Ana Avelar, Denilson Baniwa,
Jens Baumgarten, Laura Erber, Dominika Glogowski, Christian Kravagna,
Guilherme Mata, Susanne Neubauer/ Marcelo Mari, Sérgio Martins, Luís
Camillo Osório, Valéria Piccoli, Mariana Sombrio, and Camila Sposati.
Evaluation
and certificate: minimum attendance of 75% of the lectures, and final
report of 5-7 pages on one topic of choice presented along the webinar.
Presentation: Despite the many differences and distances
between Brazil and Austria, the history of these two countries has been
intertwined ever since the beginning of the 19th century. As she arrived
in Brazil, in 1818, to marry the Portuguese Prince, D. Pedro I,
Leopoldine von Habsburg had been prepared to fulfill an important
mission by her father, i.e., create an alliance between the Portuguese
Royal Court (settled in Rio de Janeiro since the Napoleonic Invasion in
Portugal, in 1808) and annex the new Empire into the greater influence
of the Habsburg Empire. Although the project failed and by the 1830s,
the Austrian Emperor gave up any hope of having a territory in the
Americas, such initiative left many significant marks, both in Brazil
and in Austria. This year, Brazil is to dedicate many events to
celebrate the bicentennial of its independence (1822-2022), while
reevaluating the narratives of modernism that have risen from the
so-called Semana de Arte Moderna of 1922 [Week of Modern Art of 1922].
This research seminar will invite scholars and artists to discuss topics
recently explored in the fields of History, Theory and Criticism of the
Visual Arts that have helped to throw new light on the cultural and
artistic exchanges within the transnational encounters between Austria
and Brazil. Some of the topics/themes to be dealt with are: 1- The Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro and the Austrian Expedition of 1818 2-
The so-called Brasilianeum in Vienna (1821-1831) and the voyages of
Johann Natterer in Brazil and Thomas Ender’s watercolours of Brazil 3- Brazilian delegations at the Universal Exhibitions in the second half of the 19th century 4- Austrian artists in Brazil and Brazilian artists in Austria from the 19th to the 21st century 5- Austrian delegation at the Independence Centenary International Exposition, 1922 6- Austrian delegations at the São Paulo Biennial 7- Austrian immigrant intellectuals and artists in Brazil, 1930-1950 8- National Identities and Modernity 9- Indigenous and African-diasporic Cultures and Modernity 10- Women and Modernity 11- Art and Politics 12- Global Art History