Ana Bigotte Vieira
Culture — Power, Mediations, and Arts
Contact:
anabigottevieira@gmail.com
Biography
Ana Bigote Vieira graduated in Modern and Contemporary History (ISCTE-IUL). She specialised in the fields of Contemporary Culture and Philosophy (NOVA FCSH), and in Theatre Studies (University of Lisbon). Between 2009 and 2012, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Performance Studies of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
Her PhD thesis “NO ALEPH, para um olhar sobre o Serviço ACARTE da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian entre 1984 e 1989” received an Honorable Mention in Contemporary History from the Mário Soares Foundation. This research regards the performative role of Modern Art Museums, focusing on the cultural transformations that Portugal went through after entering the European Union – and the way in which they find, in the body, a particular ground of expression.
She is a member of the group Culture, Identities and Power of the Institute of Contemporary History, where she co-organised, with Luís Trindade and Giulia Bonali, the cycle “When Where the 80s?”. She is a co-founder, publisher, and curator of the platform baldio |Performance Studies, and a playwright in theatre and dance. She received a Dwight Conquergood Award at the Performance Studies International #17, Utrecht. She is a member of the BUALA Association. Along with Sandra Lang (CH), she has organised a series of discursive and performative events regarding the relationship between art and politics. Currently, she is developing, with choreographer João dos Santos Martins, a project of collective historicisation of dance in Portugal “Para uma timeline a haver”, that has the form of an installation/exhibition.
Research fields
- Theatre
- Performance and dance studies
- Cultural history
- Contemporary philosophy
- Frontier studies
Selected publications
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte & André Silveira, “Lourdes Castro and Manuel Zimbro | Un Autre Livre Rouge: un autre livre, un autre rouge, un autre autre,” in Art, Global Maoism, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, edited by Jacopo Galimberti, Noemi de Haro García and Victoria H. F. Scott. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte, “Turn, turtle! Uso [Use], Espaço [Space] and Falta [Lack/Missing],” in Turn Turtle, Turn! Reenacting The Institute, edited by Elke van Campenhout. Berlin: Alexander Verlag, 2017. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte & Ricardo Seiça Salgado, “The 60s, TDR, and Performance Studies: from a 2009 interview by Ana Bigotte Vieira and Ricardo Seiça Salgado, revised in 2014 by Richard Schechner,” in Performed Imaginaries, by Richard Schechner. Abingdon: Routledge, 2015. [link]
- Vieira, Ana Bigotte. “”I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet… but your kids are gonna love it”,” in L’Internationale Online – Decolonising Museums, 71-95. Ghent: L’Internationale Online, 2015. [link] 🔓
Main projects
- Co-coordinator, with Maria João Brilhante (CET — University of Lisbon), of the project “ARTHE — Archiving Theatre” — Hosted by the Centre for Theatre Studies and the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/ART-PER/1651/2021). [link]
- Co-coordinator, with João dos Santos Martins, of the project “A Timeline To Be: periodization and collective mapping concerning dance as an artistic practice in 20th century’s Portugal” — With the support of the Sá da Bandeira Theatre, Viriato Theatre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the DGARTES. [link]
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
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Event Details
Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop
A dietary mainstay in non-European societies and a cornerstone of dishes like Northern Italian risotto, rice has diverse culinary significance. However, the timing of its introduction to Northern Italy remains unclear. Examining this event offers insights into the process of integrating new crops into both diet and cultural imagination. This talk is about the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Bringing together the history of knowledge and environmental history, in this talk I will reflect on how rice was appropriated by several actors, and on how these appropriations were intertwined with perceptions and constructions of the landscape and material environment. By interlacing narratives of rice cultivation and of the landscapes rice forms, alongside discussions of infrastructural development and knowledge systems, I will also delineate the progression of interactions between humans and their environments, as well as the evolution of water management practices, scientific advancements, medical understandings, and political-economic ideologies across different historical periods. Additionally, the talk will highlight how resources were conceptualized in the early modern period, reconnecting to contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and on the agency of non-humans.
About IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar:
Lavinia Maddaluno is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, working on David Gentilcore’s ERC project The Water Cultures of Italy 1500-1900. She is a historian of science interested in exploring the nexus between humans, nature and economy in early modern Europe. Lavinia has just completed her first monograph Science and political Economy in Enlightenment Milan (1760-1805), forthcoming with the Voltaire Foundation in autumn 2024. She is currently editing a book on rice in the Mediterranean with Rachele Scuro and a special issue on Water Knowledge with Giacomo Savani and Davide Martino. Lavinia has held multiple fellowships since the end of her PhD (Cambridge UK, 2018), from a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, to a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and a joint Warburg/I Tatti Fellowship in the History of Science. More recently, she has been Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondazione Einaudi, working on a new project on rice-related knowledge networks between France and Italy in the Enlightenment.
Attendance is free.
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(Tuesday) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
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