Friday, September 2: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Performance: Serious, Serious, Serious -- Marcos Chaves
"Until death stops you being serious." -- Francis Picabia, Cannibal Dada Manifesto. Marcos Chaves invites us for a live, multi-image romp in a conceptual playground of his recent videos, photography, and performance.
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Excursion 1: "Purity is a Myth"
Appropriations, body acts, organic geometry, and even a bit of 101. The resonance of the sentence stenciled on the wall of Helio Oiticica’s 1967 installation Tropicalia is echoed in contemporary performances, aesthetic approaches, and reflections on the role of art in the developing world. Works by Andrea Fraser, Angela Detanico y Rafael Lain, assume vivid astro focus, Brigida Baltar, Edson Barrus, Felipe Lacerda, Marssares, Roberto Berliner, Simone Michellin.

Saturday, September 3: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Perforance: Serious, Serious, Serious -- Marcos Chaves
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Excursion 2: A Useful Landscape
From intimacy in São Paulo’s urban jungle to the cutting edge of technology in Brazil’s interior, the topography of communication is surveyed in experimental documentaries, the poetics of movement and sound, and displaced livestock. Works by Andre Amparo, Colectivo Bijari, Daniel Lima, Edson Barrus, Nicolas Guagnini & Karin Schneider, Lucas Bambozzi, Marepe, Marssares, Rachel Rosalen, and Tetine.

Friday, September 9: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Performance: Kino I – Vida -- Felipe Lacerda
Media artist and editor of acclaimed Brazilian films such as Central Station and Bus 174 (which he also co-directed), Felipe Lacerda’s oberservational essays search for individual utopias in the streets of Cuba and Brazil.
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Excursion 1: "Purity is a Myth"

Saturday, September 10: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Performance: Kino I – Vida -- Felipe Lacerda
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Excursion 2: A Useful Landscape

Friday, September 16: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Performance: SAO – TKO -- Rachel Rosalen
Literally. Media artist Rachel Rosalen joins us for a live performance during a two-day layover from São Paulo to Yokahama, with multi-channel works that meditate on the fissures and intersections between East, West, and South.
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Excursion 2: A Useful Landscape

Saturday, September 17: 7:30pm & 10pm
Live Performance: Pop Will Eat Itself -- Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez
Born in Rio de Janeiro and transplanted to New York, interdisciplinary artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez mines diverse found materials in a live dissection of American pop and visual imperialism, from Warhol to Walmart, signs to insignificance, and fashion to fascism.
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Excursion 1: "Purity is a Myth"