Ministério da Cultura
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 13 a 23 
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 de 2025 

13 a 23 de Março de 2025

OLHARES CRÍTICOS

THOUGHT-IN-PROCESS

Aging, Desire, and Art: The Elderly Body in Theater and Desire

WITH João Silvério Trevisan and Helena Vieira

In the thought-in-process, artists and guests from different areas meet after the performances to dialogue with the audience about the shows. Writer, playwright and researcher Helena Vieira, curator of this edition of MITsp’s Critical Perspectives, and Brazilian author João Silvério Trevisan meet after the performance of The Secret Life of Old People to discuss aspects of desire in old age and the intersections between the elderly body and the stage.

WHEN AND WHERE

March 22, Saturday, after the performance of The Secret Life of Old People

Sesc Vila Mariana

Envelhecimento, Desejo e Arte O Corpo Idoso Frente à Cena e ao Desejo

ABOUT

João Silvério Trevisan tem 15 livros publicados, entre ficção e ensaios. É autor de Devassos no paraíso, ensaio multidisciplinar sobre a história da homossexualidade no Brasil, e de Seis balas num buraco só, obra ensaística sobre a crise do masculino. Venceu por três vezes os Prêmios Jabuti e A.P.C.A., foi finalista do Jabuti e Oceanos com suas recentes obras auto ficcionais Pai, Pai (em 2018) e Meu irmão, eu mesmo (em 2024). É Doutor Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (MG).

Helena Vieira is a writer, playwright and researcher with a career marked by the intersection between art, philosophy and memory. In theatre, she investigates narrative forms that re-signify the history and experience of dissident bodies, as in Jango Jezebel: Onde Estavam as Travestis na Ditadura [Jango Jezebel: Where Were the Transvestites in the Dictatorship], presented at the Memorial da Resistência in São Paulo. She has published essays in collections such as Explosão Feminista (ed. Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda) and História do Movimento LGBT no Brasil (ed. James Green, Renan Quinalha, Marcio Caetano and Marisa Fernandes). Her thinking moves between philosophy, gender studies and cultural criticism, with contributions to outlets such as Cult, Harper’s Bazaar, Galileu and Folha de S.Paulo.