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In Transit Letters: Between the South Atlantic and the Baltic Sea

Salustiano Trojaborg, Iury LU and Calvet, Ian (2022)
Abstract
In the summer of 2022, Iury started an exchange of handwritten letters with her then supervisor Adriana Schneider Alcure and with PhD candidate Ian Calvet, both artist researchers basedat the Theatre Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The written letters were an attempt to connect personal, socio-political and artistic experiences and scholarship produced in the Global South, especially from Iury’s place of origin, with that produced in Northern European countries where Iury’s, Adriana’s and Ian’s paths of migration at some
point have crossed, namely Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Following the first time Iury and Ian meet in person, they searched for a level of intimacy and affection within their bodies and... (More)
In the summer of 2022, Iury started an exchange of handwritten letters with her then supervisor Adriana Schneider Alcure and with PhD candidate Ian Calvet, both artist researchers basedat the Theatre Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The written letters were an attempt to connect personal, socio-political and artistic experiences and scholarship produced in the Global South, especially from Iury’s place of origin, with that produced in Northern European countries where Iury’s, Adriana’s and Ian’s paths of migration at some
point have crossed, namely Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Following the first time Iury and Ian meet in person, they searched for a level of intimacy and affection within their bodies and in space that allowed them, together with their audience, to improvise and perform their exchange of letters.
Performers: Ian Calvet and Iury Salustiano Trojaborg (Less)
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Decoloniality, epistolary culture, autobiographical memory
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  abstract     = {{In the summer of 2022, Iury started an exchange of handwritten letters with her then supervisor Adriana Schneider Alcure and with PhD candidate Ian Calvet, both artist researchers basedat the Theatre Department of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The written letters were an attempt to connect personal, socio-political and artistic experiences and scholarship produced in the Global South, especially from Iury’s place of origin, with that produced in Northern European countries where Iury’s, Adriana’s and Ian’s paths of migration at some<br/>point have crossed, namely Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Following the first time Iury and Ian meet in person, they searched for a level of intimacy and affection within their bodies and in space that allowed them, together with their audience, to improvise and perform their exchange of letters.<br/>Performers: Ian Calvet and Iury Salustiano Trojaborg}},
  author       = {{Salustiano Trojaborg, Iury and Calvet, Ian}},
  keywords     = {{Decoloniality; epistolary culture; autobiographical memory}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{In Transit Letters: Between the South Atlantic and the Baltic Sea}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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