International Seminar «KNOWLEDGEandARTS»

as Research

Presentation

«KNOWLEDGEandARTS» as Research is an initiative promoted by NECTS (Science, Technology and Society Research Group), aiming at the organization of a series of events focused on aesthetic-expressive activities/demonstrations (for the time being, with a scenic/performative/visual emphasis), among other knowledge bases.

This initiative is integrated within the diversity of debates incited by CES around the problematic of cognitive citizenship and cross-disciplinary/interfacial concepts of knowledge production and legitimation. Its main goal is to improve and diversify those debates, based on an integrated and involved experience, in order to facilitate the adequacy of formulation of results from certain Social and Human Sciences’ studies and their expression/communication, namely promoting the possible horizontality between experience, social change and corresponding analysis.

We also aim at fostering the base conditions for the creation of mediation, articulation and cooperation circles between fields of Knowledge, Culture and corresponding multiple modes of communication, mobilizing the different Sciences, Knowledge Bases (traditional/modern and computerized/manual), Arts and Societies as an educational project, for a creative citizenship, social change and social fairness-beauty.

The future program of «KNOWLEDGEandARTS» as Research, from July to October 2010, will include an Internation Seminar and two Advanced Training sessions.

Design and organization: Berta Teixeira; Supervision: João Arriscado Nunes

«KNOWLEDGEandARTS» as Research International Seminar

Cognitive Citizenship: Arts and Knowledge as Research in Contemporary Knowledge Societies

With 10-15 minutes interventions, guests are expected to reflect on their work paths and processes (research-production), originating the following questions: Can artistic production be considered and acknowledged as a research (within scientific-academic models)? How can artistic fields contribute to the different fields-areas? Can artists and specific knowledge practitioners participate in research teams whose study object does not relate to the artistic fields or, even, to those knowledge sets? What are the agendas on citizenship, sustainable development and their connection to arts-knowledge? These are some of the initial questions to explore in order to tighten the relationship between arts, competences and production/legitimation of knowledge in general.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

Monday, July 12th

09h30m Opening Session
João Arriscado Nunes (Professor, CES-UC Researcher)

10h00m/13h00m Session I (with courtesy break)
Pedro Sena Nunes (Film Director, Documentarist, Professor)
Mirian Tavares (Researcher, Professor at University of Algarve; CIAC – Research Centre in Arts and Communication)
Maria João Brilhante (Researcher, Professor at University of Lisbon and Head of National Theatre D. Maria II)

Discussion

15h00m Session II (with courtesy break)
Josette Féral (Researcher and Professor at Theatre School of University of Quebec University - Montreal, Canada) 21h30m

Screening of the documentary “Há tourada na aldeia (Facing the Bulls Eyes)” by Pedro Sena Nunes (screening venue to be confirmed)

Tuesday, July 13th

10h00m/13h00m Session III (with courtesy break)
António Pedro Pita - Researcher, Professor at University of Coimbra and Head of Regional Directorate for Culture (to be confirmed)
Tiago Porteiro - Actor, Stage Director, Researcher and Professor at University of Évora
Renata Lima - Capoeira Performer, Choreographer and Professor at the Faculty of Physical Education of Federal University of Goiás/Brazil (to be confirmed)
José Simões de Almeida Júnior - Stage Director, Researcher, Titular Professor at the University of Sorocaba/SP Brazil
Fernando Matos Oliveira - Professor at the Faculty of Arts of University of Coimbra, Artistic Studies, member of Theatre Critics’ Association, and member of the editorial staff of Sinais de Cena journal.

Final Discussion and Closing of Seminar

CLOSING LUNCH

«KNOWLEDGEandARTS» as Research organizes, within the International Seminar, two Advanced Training Sessions.

Registration

Set price: 10 Euros

Limit of participants: 15