During the 18th Spring of Museums, on September 28 and 29, Inhotim will be integrating all its sectors in the International Seminar Transmutar: ways of being in the world, gestures that preserve life. 

The goal is to form a knowledge production network around themes relevant to life on Earth today, with a program consisting of debates, artistic situations and moments of exchanging experiences around topics such as biodiversity, climate, territory and culture, at their intersections with science, the arts and education. 

Thinking about art and nature more broadly invites us to look at ways of being in the world and gestures that preserve life, bringing together voices from different areas of knowledge that amplify and deepen the debate. 

• September 28 ↓

  September 28 

   

  Conference with Stefano Harney (USA) and Fred Moten (USA)*   

  Mediator: Jorge Vasconcelos (RJ)
  September 28, at 11:00 am 

   

  85 spots | Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes | Location: Tunga Psychoactive Gallery [G21] | Parental Rating: Free 

   

  Harney and Moten’s research examines how practices of resistance and solidarity offer new forms of social and intellectual organization, especially within Black and marginalized communities. 

   

  Their inquiries highlight and value informal and unrecognized practices as legitimate and productive forms of engagement and knowledge. This approach proposes a reassessment of the relations between work, education and emancipation. 

   

  *Stefano Harney will participate in person and Fred Moten via streaming. 

   

  Dialogues with Gabriela de Matos (MG) and Paulo Tavares (DF) 

  Mediator: Luciana Oliveira (MG)
  September 28, at 2:00 pm 

   

  40 spots | Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes | Location: Educational Plant Nursery | Parental Rating: Free 

   

  Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares present the Terra project, winner of the Golden Lion at the 16th Venice Biennale in 2023. 

   

  The project focuses on the reality and challenges faced by Indigenous and quilombola communities in Brazil. Terra questions the idea of progress and development, proposing a critical reflection on how architectural and urban practices can contribute to environmental justice and cultural preservation. 

   

  Artistic situation with Joseane Jorge (MG) 

  September 28, at 4:00 pm 

   

  50 spots | Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes | Location: Jequitibá [B9] | Parental rating: Free 

   

  Proposed by the artist, architect and cook Joseane Jorge, the site-specific action entitled Usus Fructus is built from the perspective of enjoying the fruits available in a territory at the time of their occurrence. 

   

  The biodiversity of the Inhotim gardens and their surroundings are the source of a practice of collecting fruits that will be shared in this experience. The action has as a partner the Saracura Três Potes studio and other local collaborators. 

• September 29 ↓

  Conference with Elizabeth Povinelli (USA) and Gladys Tzul Tzul (GUA) 

  Mediator: Fernanda Regaldo (SP)
  September 29, at 11:00 am 

   

  85 spots | Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes | Location: Tunga Psychoactive Gallery [G21] | Parental Rating: Free 

   

  Elizabeth Povinelli, a North American anthropologist, and Gladys Tzul Tzul, a Mayan Kaqchikel intellectual from Guatemala, propose an in-depth debate about the perspective of Indigenous communities that inhabit post-colonial territories and that codify knowledge about nature, history and spirituality through narratives that indicate alternatives to the hegemonic way of life based on the exploitation and destruction of nature. 

   

  Dialogues with Jota Mombaça (CE) and Japira Pataxó (BA) 

  Mediator: Beatriz Lemos (RJ) 

  September 29, at 2:00 pm 

   

  60 spots | Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes | Location: Educational Plant Nursery | Parental Rating: Free 

   

  What epistemologies can we resort to when faced with catastrophic scenarios? Japira Pataxó and Jota Mombaça rely on different languages to reactivate the ideas of resilience and transmutation, topics of this meeting in which two voices who know catastrophe and mourning up close activate a radical imagination in favor of the recomposition of new and possible forms of reintegration with the planet. 

   

  Artistic situation with Labô Young (PA)
  September 29, at 4:00 pm 

   

  60 spots | Duration: 1 hour | Location: Lago Novo (Orange axis) | Parental rating: Free 

   

  Labô Young presents a site-specific performance, taking as a starting point the relation between body, nature and home. Using only plants found at Inhotim, the artist will create before the audience a vegetal garment, like a cocoon, which is home, body and protection. 

   

  The performance unfolds next to the water and constructs images that refer to different possibilities of the notion of transmutation.