Arte Cítrica
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Special Issue: Diaspora
v.1 n.1, 2026
Because art in displacement does not vanish: it transforms.
The Diaspora Special Issue is born from attentive listening to voices that create outside their place of origin, yet never outside themselves. This edition is dedicated to reflecting on Brazilian musical diaspora — not as absence or rupture, but as a field of reinvention, living memory, and sensitive movement between territories, times, and identities.
Here, music emerges as a gesture of permanence in motion. A way of inhabiting the world between languages, geographies, and histories, carrying ancestries, affections, tensions, and reinventions. Diaspora is not treated as exile, but as process: a state of expanded listening, where displacement sharpens vision, hearing, and thought.
In this edition, we bring together artists, researchers, and scholars who investigate music as a historical, political, and poetic experience — shaped by migrations, erasures, resistances, and creations that resonate far beyond national borders. These narratives reveal how Brazilian musical practice, in diaspora, continues to generate meaning, belonging, and transformation.
In this issue:
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Voice, Time, and Displacement: Paths of the Brazilian Musical Diaspora
The Guest Editorial presents the authors of this edition, weaving a sensitive panorama of the research and reflections that compose this special issue. -
Malês and the African Diaspora: Resistance and Art as Memory
Percussionist and Master in Humanities Lara Tannus offers a deep analysis of music as root, ancestral memory, and a force of resistance within the African diaspora. -
Musical Diaspora: Notes on a Listening in Motion
Historian and master’s student Priscilla Barbosa shares the paths of her research, reflecting on listening as a practice in transit and on Brazilian music produced outside the country. -
Maria d’Apparecida: Interpreter of Carmen and Brazilian Popular Music — 100 Years
PhD, journalist, and writer Mazé Torquato Chotil delves into the trajectory of Brazilian opera singer Maria d’Apparecida, revisiting her life, work, and historical importance. -
Long Before “Tia Amélia”: Amélia Brandão Nery Touring the Americas
Musicology doctoral candidate Thiago Leme Marconato revisits the importance of composer and pianist Amélia Brandão Nery and her fundamental role in disseminating Brazilian music abroad. -
A City in Tune: The Curitiba Music Workshop
Visual artist, historian, and Master in History Tathy Zimmermann reflects on the 43rd Curitiba Music Workshop (2026), considering the city as a sonic territory and a meeting space between traditions and contemporaneities. -
Interview with Composer and Flautist Letícia Malvares
A conversation about creation, artistic trajectory, universal music, and musical production in dialogue with the world. -
Citrus Modes
We inaugurate a new section dedicated to musicians, albums, and musical productions, expanding modes of listening and appreciation within Arte Cítrica. -
VitrinArte
We continue inviting readers to visit our first virtual exhibition, Citrus Territory, available in the dedicated section of the website — a space where images, ideas, and experiences continue to coexist.
The Diaspora Special Issue does not seek to map everything, nor to close meanings. It proposes coexistence between voices in transit, listening in formation, and histories that continue to move. Here, music is traveling memory, resonant body, and expanding thought.
An edition to listen to with attention.
To recognize that, even far away, art continues to create home.
And that this territory — citrus, multiple, undisciplined — continues to expand.
#3 Insurgence of the Word
v.1 n.5, 2025
Because literature is never neutral, it is always an act of insubmission.
An edition that celebrates literature as an act of resistance. Between silences, fragments, and powerful voices, each text sparks insurgency, inviting you to think, feel, and question.
In this edition:
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The Eternal Quest for the “Self” in Clarice Lispector’s Stories
Dive into Pri Fernandes’ analysis of Lispector’s stories, where the “self” is built amid silence and shards of memory.
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Redeeming Medea
Philosopher Laurene Veras offers a critical reading of Euripides’ tragedy and its reinterpretation in Lars Von Trier’s work, reflecting on power, gender, and resistance.
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What is Art? Part II – When Art Escapes Its Frames: Ruptures, Rebellions, and Sensory Revolutions
Historian and artist Tathy Zimmermann revisits the avant-garde, experimentation, and multiplicity of artistic creation, traveling through the 20th and 21st centuries.
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“I Am the Monster” – Hilda Hilst’s Poetics for Children
Author and professor Carla Viccini explores Hilst’s work, revealing how childhood imagination transforms into art that touches, provokes, and questions.
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Interview with Barbara Lia
We talk with the writer and poet about her work, creative processes, and the insurgency of the word in every literary gesture.
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Art in Action
Beyond the texts, the edition features artists who gift us visual creations, performances, and images that dialogue with each literary reflection, completing the mosaic of the insurgency of the word.
An edition to read, feel, and let every word cut, move, and transform.
#3 Insurgence of the Word
v.1 n.4, 2025
Because literature is never neutral, it is always an act of insubmission.
An edition that celebrates literature as an act of resistance. Between silences, fragments, and powerful voices, each text sparks insurgency, inviting you to think, feel, and question.
In this edition:
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The Eternal Quest for the “Self” in Clarice Lispector’s Stories
Dive into Pri Fernandes’ analysis of Lispector’s stories, where the “self” is built amid silence and shards of memory.
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Redeeming Medea
Philosopher Laurene Veras offers a critical reading of Euripides’ tragedy and its reinterpretation in Lars Von Trier’s work, reflecting on power, gender, and resistance.
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What is Art? Part II – When Art Escapes Its Frames: Ruptures, Rebellions, and Sensory Revolutions
Historian and artist Tathy Zimmermann revisits the avant-garde, experimentation, and multiplicity of artistic creation, traveling through the 20th and 21st centuries.
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“I Am the Monster” – Hilda Hilst’s Poetics for Children
Author and professor Carla Viccini explores Hilst’s work, revealing how childhood imagination transforms into art that touches, provokes, and questions.
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Interview with Barbara Lia
We talk with the writer and poet about her work, creative processes, and the insurgency of the word in every literary gesture.
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Art in Action
Beyond the texts, the edition features artists who gift us visual creations, performances, and images that dialogue with each literary reflection, completing the mosaic of the insurgency of the word.
An edition to read, feel, and let every word cut, move, and transform.
#3 Insurgence of the Word
v.1 n.3, 2025
Because literature is never neutral, it is always an act of insubmission.
An edition that celebrates literature as an act of resistance. Between silences, fragments, and powerful voices, each text sparks insurgency, inviting you to think, feel, and question.
In this edition:
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The Eternal Quest for the “Self” in Clarice Lispector’s Stories
Dive into Pri Fernandes’ analysis of Lispector’s stories, where the “self” is built amid silence and shards of memory.
-
Redeeming Medea
Philosopher Laurene Veras offers a critical reading of Euripides’ tragedy and its reinterpretation in Lars Von Trier’s work, reflecting on power, gender, and resistance.
-
What is Art? Part II – When Art Escapes Its Frames: Ruptures, Rebellions, and Sensory Revolutions
Historian and artist Tathy Zimmermann revisits the avant-garde, experimentation, and multiplicity of artistic creation, traveling through the 20th and 21st centuries.
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“I Am the Monster” – Hilda Hilst’s Poetics for Children
Author and professor Carla Viccini explores Hilst’s work, revealing how childhood imagination transforms into art that touches, provokes, and questions.
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Interview with Barbara Lia
We talk with the writer and poet about her work, creative processes, and the insurgency of the word in every literary gesture.
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Art in Action
Beyond the texts, the edition features artists who gift us visual creations, performances, and images that dialogue with each literary reflection, completing the mosaic of the insurgency of the word.
An edition to read, feel, and let every word cut, move, and transform.
#2 — Depths of Art
v.1 n.2, 2025
An edition that dives where light does not reach: where art beats, bleeds, and plays.
What will you find in our pages?
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Manifesto of Playful Philosophy
Angélica Sátiro invites us to play with ideas — to think as we play, to play as we philosophize. Because philosophy can also be chalk lines on the pavement. -
What is Art? Part I – A Journey from Antiquity to the 19th Century
Tathy Zimmermann, artist and historian, crosses centuries of debates, salons, and ruptures to remind us: there is no single answer, but a kaleidoscope of meanings. -
Interview with the Ideosphera Collective
Anarchic, untamed, incendiary art. A collective born from basements, shards, and cracks — proof that art can be comet, ruin, and explosion. -
Art as Catharsis
Katia Velo writes about the alchemy of pain and beauty, reminding us that to live is, always, a creative act.
An edition to let yourself be pierced by: between laughter and wounds, kites and clenched fists, art as balm and fire.
Special Dossier “I’m Still Here”
v.1 n.1, 2025
An edition that breathes cinema, memory, and resistance. Walter Salles’s film, winner of the 2025 Oscar, serves as a starting point for an intense dive: Eunice Paiva, her path marked by pain and courage, and the fight for truth that still resonates today.
What will you find in our pages?
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Eunice Paiva: when cinema breaks the silence
Filmmaker Ermeson Vieira Gondim opens the issue by analyzing how silence can be shattered by the camera. -
The artists are still present (and here)
Filmmaker and visual artist César Meneghetti reminds us that artists are — and will always be — on the frontline against erasure. -
We need to find a way, my friend
Philosopher and writer Laurene Veras connects Erasmo Carlos’s song to the brutal contrast between celebration and violence, showing how the smile, even in dark times, is a gesture of resistance. -
Eunice Paiva and the wounds of memory: an essay on resistance and freedom
In the historical section, visual artist and historian Tathy Zimmermann draws the portrait of Eunice Paiva, who transformed mourning into activism for human rights and Indigenous peoples. -
Interview with Moara Tupinambá
The artist shares her vision on how to reverberate Indigenous ancestry through creation and struggle. -
I’m still here: history and music intertwined
As a vibrant closing, singer and historian Priscilla Barbosa guides us through a soundtrack that amplifies and deepens the narrative — where music and memory merge in resistance.
An edition to feel, remember, and never forget: art as a flame kept alive against silence.
Issue Zero
v.1 n.0, 2025
Zero. The starting point. The fertile void. The blank canvas that already contains all possibilities. It is in this space between fear and ecstasy that Arte Cítrica is born: as invitation, as discovery, as transformation. Zero is seed, is potential, is what flourishes in multiple directions.
In this issue
The debut of Arte Cítrica dives into works, ideas, and crossings that explore zero as origin, absence, and promise:
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The body as object: Marina Abramović and Rhythm 0
Philosopher and psychoanalyst Gustavo Jugend analyzes the Serbian artist’s brutal performance and reflects on violence, objectification, and the “Lacanian zero” as a symbol of the non-existent that paradoxically exists. -
The Panels of Saint Vincent: the enigmatic painting of Nuno Gonçalves
Text by Tathy Zimmermann on the controversial Portuguese polyptych that resists time and interpretation. -
Interview with Christopher Zoellner
The artist and designer talks about his experience in Taiwan and how his graphic and textile art transforms surfaces into visual narratives. -
From zero: Brazilian music in diaspora
Historian and singer Priscilla Barbosa writes about the program Más Allá de la Bossa Nova and the creative power of Brazilian music produced abroad.
