Thought and Song, with Tiganá Santana and José Miguel Wisnik
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- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Saturday, 19:00
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Auditorium 2 Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
10% – Cartão Gulbenkian and Cartão Gulbenkian Mais
Musical conversation between musician Tiganá Santana and musician and essayist José Miguel Wisnik, general curator of the complexo brasil exhibition.
In Tiganá Santana, the composer, singer, guitarist, researcher, translator of African languages and thinker are inseparable dimensions of his creative being. For Tiganá, singing and translating are part of the same ontological exercise, as means of knowledge and interpretation of the world.
In conversation with José Miguel Wisnik, the musician sings and discusses Afro-Brazilian sounds, African and diasporic worldviews, and the profound African presence in the constitution of the territory and the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil.
This event is part of the complementary programme for the exhibition complexo brasil, curated by José Miguel Wisnik, Guilherme Wisnik and Milena Britto.
Biographies
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José Miguel Wisnik
Professor at the University of São Paulo, writer and musician. Author of O som e o sentido – Uma outra história das músicas (1989), Veneno remédio – o futebol e o Brasil (2008) and Maquinação do mundo – Drummond e a mineração (2018). He wrote songs and soundtracks for film, theatre and dance. He was awarded the Jabuti Prize for Literature (1978, 2009), the Kikito Prize at the Gramado Film Festival (1989), the Paulista Association of Art Critics Prize (1991, 1993, 1995), the Order of Cultural Merit (2009) and the National Library Foundation Literary Prize (2019).
Image © Pablo Saborido
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Tiganá Santana
Professor at the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo (IEB-USP), translator and multi-artist. He was the first Brazilian composer to conceive an album containing songs in African languages. His doctoral thesis received the ‘Antônio Cândido Award’ for best thesis from ANPOLL, becoming fundamental to Bantu research in Brazil, based on his dialogue with Congolese thinker Bunseki Fu-Kiau. Having been one of the artists at the 35th edition of the São Paulo Biennial, his most recent productions include curating the exhibition African Languages that Make Brazil, at the Museum of the Portuguese Language (2024/2025), in São Paulo, Nossa Vida Bantu at the Rio Art Museum (MAR-RJ) in 2025; and the release of the music album Caçada Noturna (2024).
Image © José de Holanda
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