body and language: between silence and words

with Diana Junkes

Dates: August 14, 21, 28, September 04, 11 and 18, 2025
Thursdays
Hour: 19h to 21h
Duration: 06 meetings
Audience: general interested parties
Investment: R $ 480,00

Online course
Live, via video conferencing platform
Recorded classes available for a limited time only
Course includes certificate at the end

The objective of this course is to present a discussion on the crossings of bodies at the intersection between silence and language, taking both equally as bodies that, in their manifestation, sometimes invade, sometimes welcome the body, provoking displacements, repressions, inscriptions of desire, of lack, of the intersubjective encounter and of the constitution of subjectivity itself.

Articulating works by visual artists, filmmakers and poets, a path of appreciation, analysis and interpretation of artistic and literary productions will be developed as a way of circumscribing the experience of the body in the experience of the word or non-word, of freedom or silencing, of silence as a form of life and affections — without the intention of exhausting theoretical formulations or such complex, delicate and urgent themes.

Through readings and analyses of poems, works of visual art and films, the aim is to build, throughout the course, an understanding of ways of being in the contemporary world, in the “body and language, between silence and words”.

Agenda

Opening

• Women Artists Together: Art in the Age of Women's Liberation – Amy Tobin
• Arts Remake the Word – A Contemporary Art Manifesto – Vid Simonti

Class 01 – Silence, the stone, the feather

• The myth of Echo and Narcissus according to Ovid
• Silence does not sleep: intimate resonance – Magnólia dos Santos (Benguela/Lisbon)
• Between the sensible and the intelligible, the in-between space of pain: A skin and its reverse or “under the curtain of secrets that hides my astral abyss”: Paulo Colina, Jeferson Tenório, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis and Aimé Césaire
• The royal word is never soft: Orides Fontela and Maria Bonomi
• The theft of silence – Marcos Siscar and Georgia O'Keeffe
• The Silence of the Setting Sun: Tenin, Tomie Ohtake; Perfect Days –Wim Wenders
• Silence contains time – Maria Rúbia Sant'Anna
• Meditation on anger – Maria Mercè Marçal (Catalonia)
• Is Pollock's scream a way of silencing?
• Your silence will not protect you – Audre Lorde (USA)
• The Bedside Book – Peter Greenaway

Class 02 – Voluptuousness, Abyss, Enjoyment

• Maria Teresa Horta, Hilda Hilst, Mar Becker: I desire, therefore I am
• You shungas (Japanese erotic painting), Picasso and some Pornopias (Diana Junkes): the celebration of the moment when Eros defeats Thanatos
• Let's be pornographic: Natural love – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
• A burning body – Matheus Gumenin Barreto
• Sapphic Love – Helena Zelic and Tatiana Pequeno
• Teresinha Soares and Gwladys Gambie: bodies and desire float free
• Zanele Muholi – Brave Beauty

Class 03 – Lyricism, love and experience

• Viviane Mosé, Geni Núñez, Renato Noguera – Why do we love them?
• Another night for two, and one day less – Paulo Henriques Brito
• Love is not dissident – ​​Matheus Gumenin Barreto, Ocean Vuong, Tatiana Pequeno, Helena Zelic, Wong Kar Wai
• When you come to see a fire-colored banzo – Nina Rizzi
• Far Away, Here – Maria Esther Maciel; Corsair Soul – Claudia Roquette Pinto
• Funeral Blues: Auden, O'Neil, Neruda, Vinicius
• Landscape with Dromedary – Carola Saavedra
• Representations of love in contemporary art
• In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar Wai

Class 04 – Ruins and fissures, rhymes and textures

• Deep Harvest – Rosa Oyassy
• “I want the rhyme in the tremor” – Paulo Colina and Edimilson de Almeida Pereira
• Aspects of the work of Adriana Varejão, Cildo Meireles and Sebastião Salgado
• Between what shines and what burns – Prisca Agustoni
• Mariana Well – Eliane Marques
• Beatriz, Carolina, Clementina and Conceição: when pain crosses the word
• Poetic disobediences – Grada Kilomba (theater)
• Indigenous and Mapuche poets: silence and song
• Color and pain: Jaider Esbell
• Killable bodies – large urban centers

Class 05 – Wounds: Artists and poets in a state of siege – Brazil and Latin America
• Dictatorships in Latin America – the hidden bodies
• Alex Polari and Cacaso
• Lara de Lemos, Cassandra Rios, Hilda Hilst
• Poetic Production of Araguaia
• Leon Ferrari and Ferreira Gullar
• Women artists in the military dictatorship – bodies on the easel

Class 06 – Fissures: Artists and poets in a state of siege – Gaza and other conflicts
• Representations of the body between trauma and testimony (Palestine, Bosnia, Ukraine, among others)
• Fires – Denis Villeneuve
• The refugee issue
• Environmental racism
• Female artists in the world: Women Artists Together – Amy Tobin
• Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto – Vid Simonti
• Hate Speech – A Politics of the Performative – Judith Butler
• Translated poetry – what poets tell us about the right to literature

Diana Junkes

Diana Junkes was born in São Paulo in June 1971. She is a poet, literary critic, and professor at the Federal University of São Carlos, in undergraduate and graduate courses. At this university, she also coordinates the Center for Studies and Research on Poetry and Culture/NEPPOC-CNPq. She was deputy provost for research from 2021 to 2025 and coordinated the Observatório Mulheres – UFSCar from 2022 to 2025. She worked as a professor and/or visiting researcher at the universities of Yale, Illinois, Buenos Aires, Jagiellonia in Krakow, and Lusíada in Angola. She is currently the coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies. She is the author of “As razões da máquina antropofágica: poesia e syncronia em Haroldo de Campos”, Editora da Unesp/2013, and has more than several articles published in journals with a selective editorial policy, as well as book chapters. As a poet, she publishes in electronic magazines and blogs, and develops performances (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3042B84JxIA). She is the author of “clowns cronópios silêncios” (2017), “sol quando agora” (2018), published by Editora Urutau, and “asas plumas macramê” (2019) and “asfalto” (asphalt) published by Editora Laranja Original and CAIS (Selo de Minas, in press). Her poems have been translated into French (Anthologie Internationale de Poèsie Contemporaine – Brésil, le presses du réel) and in Attaque, into English (Saccades), into Spanish (Vera Cartonera (Argentina) and Poesía (Venezuela).   

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credits: Maria Bonomi, Parole, 1965. Photo: Romulo Fialdini