Creative Freedom behind Bars: A Dive in the Art of Prisons from Piaui State, in Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.5965/14145731033920200503

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Political theater, Art and Activism, Theater in Prisons

Abstract

Valdsom Braga narrates his experience as Art Director at prisons in Piauí State, Brazil, from January 19 of 2016 to January 19, 2019. He identifies art as a tool for social change and highlights that society should be trained to accept, and not to exclude, people deprived from liberty. Valdsom also compares the situation in prisons to the situation in the state schools from Piauí, where he is currently the Art Director of a project focused on defending life and fighting suicide widely.

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Author Biography

Erica Rodrigues Fontes, Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI)

Graduação em Inglês e Literaturas de Língua Inglesa pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (1999), mestrado em Romance Languages/ Literatura Brasileira pela University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2003) e doutorado em Romance Languages e Performance de Literatura pela University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005). Tem pós-doutorado em Estudos Teatrais pela Ryukoku Daigaku, Quioto, Japão (2020), tendo desenvolvido projeto sobre possibilidades de intercâmbio entre o teatro tradicional japonês (kyogen, comédia) e o Teatro Imagem de Augusto Boal.

References

BOAL, Augusto. Teatro do oprimido e outras poéticas políticas. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2019.

FOUCAULT, Michel. Vigiar e punir: o nascimento da prisão. Rio de Janeiro: Vozes, 2014.

QUEIROZ, Nana. Presos que menstruam. São Paulo: Record, 2015.

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Published

2020-12-23

How to Cite

FONTES, Erica Rodrigues. Creative Freedom behind Bars: A Dive in the Art of Prisons from Piaui State, in Brazil. Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas, Florianópolis, v. 3, n. 39, 2020. DOI: 10.5965/14145731033920200503. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/18885. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

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Vol. 3 No. 39 (2020): Artes da cena atrás das grades

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Interviews

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