BANZO SOUNDS/BANZO LANDSCAPE by Mariana Marcassa

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BETWEEN MUTENESS AND THE WORD:

An English-Portuguese publication by Mariana Marcassa. (Sons de Banzo/Paisagem Banzo)

BANZO is a historical psychopathology, now recognized as a deep depression, most commonly present in enslaved African people and their descendants in seventeenth to nineteenth century Brazil. Since 2012, I have been trying to discuss banzo more deeply as a product of the violence of the enslavement of both African and Indigenous peoples.” –Marcassa

MARIANA MARCASSA is a Brazilian artist who has been developing a performance-based therapeutic research centered on a somatic experience of the voice and sound. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is currently finishing her postdoctoral research at Concordia University.

The double book BANZO SOUNDS and BANZO LANDSCAPE combines her research (Sounds) with a sensorial fiction (Landscape) contextualizing her comprehension of banzo and the phenomenon of voicelessness in which her clinical work takes roots.

Grosse Fugue Publishing/Éditions Grosse Fugue

Editorial Direction and Graphic Design: Enora Sanschagrin, Gaëlle Cordeau, Guillaume Bégin. /// Illustrations by Enora Sanschagrin, based on the works of Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768-1848) in Brasil. /// The covers and front pages were printed by hand by the editors using woodcut and silkscreen techniques.

First Edition, 120 copies, printed in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal in December 2019.

ISBN: 978-1-9992068-3-3