Tag: Arts

Editorial policies for inclusion and diversity in the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença

Part of the cover of Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, vol. 7, no. 2, 2017, displaying a painting of the face of a Black person.

The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença has implemented important changes by adopting Open Science practices with a focus on IDEIA principles, being a pioneer in the area of Performing Arts in Brazil. Prior to this, the journal already followed similar principles, as evidenced by the thematic section “Performance and Ethnic-Racial Relations”, published in 2017. Read More →

Art as a Vehicle and Jerzy Grotowski’s Investigations Beyond the 20th Century

Photograph of Jerzy Grotowski, a white man with medium-length white hair, beard and moustache

The dossier on the director Jerzy Grotowski addresses the relevance of his theatrical practices and transcultural approaches, presenting articles that revisit his legacy to propose new perspectives for contemporary theater. Read More →

Metamorphosis, friction or symbiosis between body and animated forms in the work of Ilka Schönbein

Black and white photograph of the show "Métamorphoses" by Ilka Schönbein, in which slightly macabre-looking puppets and marionettes are on a wooden platform, being manipulated by the artist.

The works of puppeteer and dancer Ilka Schönbein challenge perceptions of life and death, provoking reflections on eroticism and finitude. Her creations reveal a poetic singularity that provokes disquieting strangeness in the relationship between the human and the animate. Read More →

Presence as a research field in the performing arts

A dark multi-level stage with reflections and abstract and colorful geometric patterns inspired by nature projected onto the surfaces.

Throughout its work, the Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença has given visibility to various themes in the performing arts, focusing on the concept of presence. We present articles that discuss this subject in dialogue with philosophy and media arts, going beyond the hic et nunc of the stage event. Read More →

Performing Arts research highlighted on the blog “SciELO in Perspective”

Photomontage of four issues of the “Brazilian Journal of Presence Studies”, showing different covers with different themes and people. In the center, there is a vertical column with three stylized “P*” logos; the logos at the ends are black, while the central logo is white.

The Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença Special Week, taking place this week, will explore themes such as the notion of presence, methodological diversity, and social issues in Performing Arts research. The program includes analyses, discussions and a detailed overview of the journal’s social impact, highlighting its importance and activities within the scope of Open Science. Read More →

The future of RBEP and the field of Arts in Brazil

What is the role of the Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies as a vehicle to divulge arts research in Brazil? What to expect for the future? What are the plans? And, at last, how the Arts area sees the journal in its mission to disseminate knowledge production? Read More →

How to disseminate scientific research in Performing Arts?

The history of art journals in Brazil is recent. This indicates the size of the challenges for quality publishing. How to publish without perishing? What does the publication of scientific output in performing arts mean? How can challenges and difficulties be faced as solutions? These are recurrent issues for journals in search of excellence. Read More →

Decolonial research methodologies on scenic arts

What search methodologies for which objects? The central issue of this article is to know, based on the idea that the methodologies we have come from a colonial matrix, how to create decolonial methodologies for non-colonial objects. How performance gets into this equation? Read More →

Dance, performance and gender

Gender is a fundamental category in art research in the contemporary world. In the same way, it is a founding element of decolonial concerns. This research will question the gender category within the performance and its crossings as an element for the deconstruction of a colonial thought. Read More →

The challenges of an arts journal in the Anglophone world

What are the challenges for a Latin American arts journal in the English-speaking world? How to compete with large publishing corporations? How to keep publishing in open access? How to ensure the quality on disseminating foreign and Brazilian research? Read More →