SOFIA BOITO - The Headless Mule

The performance-lecture is an experiment that investigates the power of embodied knowledge, presenting a reflection on the place of women in the construction of knowledge in the Western world. Sofia Boito's lecture is supported by the CNPQ.

This performance-lecture is the result of postdoctoral research that artist and researcher Sofia Boito has been conducting at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, with a grant from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The aim is to experiment with other forms of knowledge construction and dissemination, in which aesthetic, bodily, ethical, and logical-analytical dimensions are called upon. This is based on a perspective in which gender, race, and class are considered as producers of specific knowledge.

Sofia Boito is an artist and researcher from São Paulo (Brazil). She holds a PhD in Performing Arts (University of São Paulo - USP, 2018), and developed one year of her doctoral research at Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III (2017). Sofia seeks to create performative processes where hegemonic binarisms, such as art/life, process/work, mind/body, poetics/knowledge are abolished, in order to create artistic strategies to (re)enchant the world. From the perspective of an incarnate subject, the artist frequently addresses, as a theme, her status as a woman, feminism and the contemporary urban condition. As an actress and playwriter, Sofia has created and performed in dozens of plays and performances. She has been in projects in several cities of Brazil, Italy, France, Chile and Sweden. She is also a member of: the feminist artists network Room to Bloom (European Alternatives), the ecologies of Care group, the Sala Preta Revue’s editorial committe. Sofia was a temporary professor at the Performing Arts Department of the Universidade de São Paulo - USP (2019-2021). She is currently conducting postdoctoral research in the Performing Arts program at UNICAMP.