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Encontros is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, it provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Hélio Oiticica is internationally recognized as an artist of the first magnitude. His work and thought continue to influence the best of our cultural production. By bringing together his main interviews and statements in an unprecedented way, this book is a fundamental document for understanding his trajectory and our recent history.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Hélio Oiticica was one of the most powerful thinkers on contemporary art in Brazil. In the essays collected in this volume, Oiticica proposes and performs, as Mário Pedrosa has said, an "experimental exercise of freedom" by presenting his most important creations, such as the Bólides, the Parangolés, and the Penetráveis, which allowed the artist to think in a seminal way about environmental art.

How Hélio Oiticica led Brazilian art's transition from abstract art to performable sculptureOne of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art's unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance. As MoMA's 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica's most revolutionary projects was the Parangolé, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The Parangolé is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it. Dance in My Experience traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist's oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bólides, culminating in the Parangolés. It includes texts by Oiticica and contributions by numerous scholars.