Felipe Ferreira
He holds a degree in Performing Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1993), a Master's in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGAV-UFRJ, 1996), a PhD in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGG-UFRJ, 2002) with a sandwich scholarship at the Institut de Géographie-Université Paris IV-Sorbonne and a post-doctorate in Letters at the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is the leader of the research group Laboratório da Arte Carnavalesca (“Carnivalesque Art Lab”) and creator of the Carnaval Reference Center. He has experience in the areas of Arts and Culture, working mainly on the following topics: carnival, popular culture, popular art, parties, Rio de Janeiro and “samba schools”. He is a member of the Estandarte de Ouro jury, adviser of the Samba Museum and is part of the International Network of Investigators in Estudios de Fiesta, Nación y Cultura (Studies of Party, Nation and Culture). Author of several books on carnival, among them “The Golden Book of Brazilian Carnival”, “Inventing Carnivals”, “Carnivalesque Writings”, “My Carnival Brazil” and “The Stage of Dreams”.
Research project
Title
Carnivals, traditions, resistances and consents
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
Dialogues and tensions between actors and processes present at the emergence and continuity of the different forms and carnival practices in Brazil and in the world, starting from theoretical references linked to the concepts of text, in the sense used by Cultural Studies, with special interest in the different discourses that establish the senses and visualities of the carnival actors, highlighting the contingent character of the tensions that stabilize their meanings in space/time.