Notes on the Contributors

Regina Alfarano is an ATA-certified translator with numerous published translations between English and Portuguese in Brazil and abroad. She works at the University of São Paulo and New York University.

Marilea de Almeida is a historian and psychoanalyst who teaches in the History Department and Graduate Program in History at the University of Brasília (UnB). She holds a PhD in History from the State University of Campinas (2018) and is the author of Devir Quilomba: antirracismo, afeto e política nas práticas de mulheres quilombolas (Devir Quilomba: Territory, Affect, and Politics in the Practices of Quilombola Women) (Editora Elefante, 2022). She coordinates Ebó, a collective exploring Black and LGBTQIAP+ intellectualities and epistemologies for research, teaching, and extension in history, and is a member of the Network of Black Historians.

Iracema Dulley is an anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and creative writer whose work explores how subjects are formed through the entanglement between language, power, and the body. She is the author of monographs On the Emic Gesture (Routledge, 2019), Os nomes dos outros (Humanitas, 2015), and Deus é feiticeiro (Annablume, 2010), and her essays have appeared in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Analysis, Comparative Studies in Society and History, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Africa. She is currently based at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Marlon Miguel is co-principal investigator of the project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus: Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’ at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and visiting fellow at the ICI Berlin. He holds a double PhD in Fine Arts (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis) and Philosophy (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). His current research focuses on the intersection between contemporary philosophy, art, media, and psychiatry. He also practices contemporary circus and does practical movement research.

Carla Guagliardi is a Brazilian artist who has been based between Rio de Janeiro and Berlin since 1997. An artistic educator, she studied at the Visual Arts School Parque Lage and holds a postgraduate degree in History of Art and Architecture in Brazil from PUC-RJ. In the late 1980s and 1990s, she co-founded the Visorama group, fostering critical debates on contemporary art. Between 1986 and 1989, she participated in a collective that ran a free artistic expression workshop at the psychiatric hospital Colônia Juliano Moreira — an initiative linked to Brazil’s anti-asylum movement — where she encountered Arthur Bispo do Rosário and Stella do Patrocínio. Guagliardi has exhibited extensively in Brazil and internationally, engaging with the art circuit through institutional presentations and collaborative projects.

Carolina Rodrigues is an art historian (School of Fine Arts / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts, Image, and Culture. She is also a researcher at the Centre for Anthropology, Heritage and Arts (Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/CNPq). She is currently the general curator of the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum and coordinates issues related to the boundaries of the art system, ethnic-racial relations, territoriality, and gender from the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

Diana Kolker is a museum educator and curator. She is interested in the convergence between artistic, educational, curatorial, and clinical practices. Graduated in history, specialist in art pedagogy and holding a Master’s degree in contemporary arts studies (Fluminense Federal University), she is currently pursuing a training in Schizoanalysis (FLEA). She has been responsible for the political, pedagogical, and artistic project of the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum since 2017, where she coordinates the education programmes and the Gaia Atelier. She has curated several exhibitions, notably ‘Stella do Patrocínio: Me mostrar que eu não sou sozinha. Que tem outras iguais, semelhantes a mim e diferentes’ (Stella do Patrocínio: Show me that I am not alone. That there are others like me, similar to me and different from me) (2022), held at the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum, and ‘Bispo do Rosário — Eu vim: Aparição, Impregnação e Impacto’ (Bispo do Rosário — I came: Apparition, Impregnation, and Impact), held in 2022 at Itaú Cultural.

Anna Carolina Vicentini Zacharias is the author of the book Stella do Patrocínio, ou o retorno de quem sempre esteve aqui (Stella do Patrocínio, or the Return of Someone Who Has Always Been Here) (2024). She holds a Master’s degree delivered by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). She is currently a doctoral student at the same institution and has a special interest in examining the reception and criticism of art produced by psychiatric patients, known as ‘art brut’, a term she works against, with the help of counter-colonial and anti-asylum perspectives.