The 3rd International Seminar on Arts Research (SIPA) and the 15th SPMAV are organized by students and faculty from the Graduate Program in Arts at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The event is open to researchers, whether affiliated with institutions or independent, as well as students and alumni from national and international Higher Education Institutions.

It encompasses the three research tracks of PPGArtes/UFPel — Arts Education and Aesthetic Formation Processes, Creation Processes and Everyday Poetics, and History, Theories of the Arts and Transversalities — fostering a diverse range of investigations that contribute to the construction of multiple forms of knowledge.

In 2026, the event proposes reflecting on artistic, pedagogical, and theoretical creation processes through the notion of processuality, understanding creation as a network of relationships, temporalities, displacements, and experiences in constant movement.

CREATION AS A NETWORK IN CONSTANT CONSTRUCTION

The Networked Processualities edition of SIPA/SPMAV incorporates the idea of the creative network into the discussion on processuality in art, understanding artistic processes as shaped by multiple relationships with surroundings, subjects, languages, materialities, and experiences. Pierre Musso (2004), in discussing the polysemic nature of the network concept, notes that networks extend beyond metaphors of organisms and life flows to embrace issues of social change, mobility, and utopia. In this sense, the network becomes a vital concept for examining creation in its perpetual motion—open to unfinished states, continuity, and transformation.

The polysemic and open nature of the network concept dialogues directly with creative processes in art by acknowledging a multiplicity of meanings and embracing processuality as a state of openness to what is yet to come. The network thus becomes a way to understand creative processes in all their complexity and to strengthen the event’s primary goal: to build connections, exchanges, and mediations around arts research. Cecília Almeida Salles (2006) integrates the network concept into the study of creation processes by highlighting the connectivity and proliferation of relationships that permeate creative thinking and artists’ links to their environment.

Considering creation as a process also requires contemplating time, memory, displacements, and the relationships built throughout the creative journey. These temporalities are multiple, involving preparation, reflection, back-and-forth shifts, pauses, and maturation—because, as Salles (2006) emphasizes, the time of creation is continuous. Furthermore, the concept of a network presupposes dialogue, contact, and exchange. As Jean Lancri (2002) points out, taking a detour through the “other” is an essential mechanism in arts research, establishing a constant movement back and forth between others and oneself, as well as between practice and theory.

Accordingly, the event invites investigation into the networks of creative processes, addressing questions of temporality, memory, the body, displacement, territoriality, collective, emancipatory, and decolonial practices, ecologies of the sensible, and arts research processes—viewing creation as a complex, evolving network.

Guests

The schedule includes panel discussions with invited speakers of national and international renown, linking UFPel faculty and students to a broader arts research network. Confirmed names to be announced.

Program

The schedule — dates, times, locations, and the distribution of papers across Working Groups — will be published on the official website and social media channels, as well as sent by email to registered participants.

• Panel Discussions: Meetings with guest speakers of national and international prestige, connecting UFPel faculty and students to a broader arts research network.
• Working Groups (GTs): Five working groups dedicated to presenting and discussing ongoing or completed research, available in traditional or propositional formats.
• Workshops: Four workshops with limited seats, open via online application forms and filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Print & Art Fair: The 4th edition of Dobra o Ruído, focused on printed matter, zines, printmaking, and artistic publications held in the hallways of the Arts Center.

• Exhibition and Artistic Showcase: Curated production by Master’s and Doctoral students from PPGArtes/UFPel.

Workshops — Limited Seats

Registration will take place via online forms released at an appropriate date and announced on the event’s communication channels. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Workshop 1: Dance and Technology: Creative Possibilities of Dance for Screen

• Workshop 2: Textile Materialities and Natural Pigments

• Workshop 3: (Dis)Orientation: Routes, Detours, and Encounters in Urban Space

• Workshop 4: Forró for All: Dancing Inclusion

Overview

The Proceedings of the 3rd SIPA / 15th SPMAV — Networked Processualities bring together approved and presented works across the four modalities outlined in the call for papers. They will be made available in digital format on the event’s website and the PPGArtes/UFPel page, scheduled for publication in December 2026. Upon completion of the editorial process, authors will receive access details via email. The opinions and content expressed in the papers are the sole responsibility of their respective authors.

Publication Guidelines

Publication in the Proceedings is contingent upon passing the evaluation process, presenting the work during the event, submitting a final version if revisions are requested, and meeting all guidelines in the call for papers. Formatting guidelines for each category are available in the official event templates on the registration page. Submissions that do not strictly follow the template formatting will not be accepted.

Contact

Questions or additional information regarding the call for papers: sipa.ppgartes.ufpel2026@gmail.com