Being Seen, Being Heard: 

A One-Day Symposium 

Sun 27 Nov 10.30am  |  £30/£20 (students) 

Registration fee includes refreshments, lunch and a ticket to Thelma Bonavita’s Eu Sou Uma Fruta Gogoia (I am a Gogoia Fruit). 

A full day of papers, panels, breakout sessions, long tables and debates. 

Being Seen, Being Heard brings together artists, scholars, and curators to explore the ways in which all three are active in shaping the contexts in which artistic work is produced and experienced: that is, how it is seen and how it is heard. How do we decide who gets a voice? How can we influence what is perceived as political? How do new networks and communities take a form? Participants will include John McGrath (National Theatre Wales and author of Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy, and Surveillance Space) and Brazilian artists Thelma Bonavita and Gustavo Ciriaco. 

Symposium co-ordinated by Theron Schmidt: theron.schmidt@kcl.ac.uk

Thelma Bonavita 

Eu Sou Uma Fruta Gogoia (I am a Gogoia Fruit) 

Sat 26 Nov 8pm & Sun 27 Nov 6pm  |  £10.50/£8.50 

What is a gogoia fruit? Where does it come from? Do we know what has passed here? Inspired by Gal Costa’s hit  song, renowned Brazilian dance artist Thelma Bonavita explodes onto the stage with a pop/fashion satire on the Tropicália Movement. Bonavita combines fruit, balloons, wigs and metaphors for the Brazilian cultural imagination to rework well known elements of Tropicália, a revolutionary movement in the Brazilian art of the 1960s. 

UK Premiere. 

Sat 26 Nov: Post show Q&A with Gustavo Ciriaco, free to same day ticket holders. 

Sun 27 Nov: Preceded by a short performance by an early career artist on the foyer stage.