Contemporânea - Revista do PPGART/UFSM

Editorial

Rosa Maria Blanca — 2022-03-14

To all victims of COVID-19

The Contemporânea - Revista do PPGART/UFSM publishes another issue within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to the efforts of its authors, publisher, Graduate Program in Visual Arts (UFSM) and especially, the team at Journal Center of the Federal University of Santa Maria.
The Contemporânea celebrates its emigration in version 3 of the Open Journal Systems (OJS) system, which updates the journal in the operating systems of international electronic journals.
Producing knowledge, art, research and extension, at a time like the one that crosses the country and the world is not easy. It's a challenge. That is why the launch of an issue is an act of celebration, a privilege for its artists, authors, referees and academic and technical staff.
The articles and essays aim to contribute to the universe of contemporary art, an art that wants to dialogue with the subjective needs of the present, discussing poetic, theoretical, historical, cultural, academic and/or political tensions. This means that the publication bravely crosses a national and global health crisis, making its writings fragile and vulnerable, however, eloquent and consistent, aesthetic and critical, in a time that demands faith and resilience.

Art in motion: nomad subjectivities

Rosa Maria Blanca — 2022-03-14

This article aims to study how movement interferes in artistic practices and consequently in the subjectivity of the artist. It starts from the assumption that the movement of artists in migration, travel or displacement, agency perceptions that conceive a changing subjectivity, as opposed to an institutionalized artistic identity, influencing categories such as gender or national. The concept of nomad is used for the investigation of artistic practices in movement. As a result, the study proposes a nomadic thought to reflect on art in the contemporary world. Categories such as exile, xenofeminism, nomadic and Amefricanity, formulations of artistic projects and of the artists themselves are exposed.

Engraving and the Poetics of Multiple: Dialogues between a Creation Process Contemporary and Post Consumer Culture

Marcillene Ladeira — 2022-03-07

This article presents a clipping of a theoretical-practical foundation in which the word-image “multiple” has established as one of the poetic arguments used in the authorial works of the artist-researcher Marcillene Ladeira. In this course, presents the engrave as a starting point - it is the language, as fed to the consensus of researchers originally reserved this conception. In addition to the process of plastic construction, there is painting and photography, retraction “the real” and submerging in hybrid characteristics. As a reference for artists and works, it has been using: Andy Warhol, with the works “Brillo Box” (1964) and “Campbell’s soup” (1964); Daniel Arsham, with “Eroded Brillo Box” (2019/2020). In terms of authors, we highlight Benjamin (1955), Costella (2006), Entler (2007), Catarxo (2012), Foster (2017). It maintains that multiple - understood as the possibility of reproduction “in a kind of assembly line” - allowed the establishment of fruitful dialogues of thought. In a reading of rapprochement with Pop, but in a different scope, the works in discourse move from the imaginary of consumption to post-consumption, whose poetics established between “art and the environment”, sustained by three key operational concepts: “liquidity”, “respect for nature” and “transience” as living beings. The dialogical relations established in the place of the exhibition have also evidenced as a personal strategy of production and singularity of this doing, under the aegis of the interphase: multiple-place-poetic.

Urban acupuncture: concept and poetics

Marina Costamilan Rombaldi — 2022-03-14

Based on the concept of urban acupuncture developed by Jaime Lerner (2011), interrelated with the research by Caroline Criado Perez (2019) and Amos Rapoport (1977), this article reflects on two artworks carried out in the city of Porto Alegre and its relations with the forces that determine the daily conduct of the bodies in commom collective spaces.

Post-covidean affects: silent retrospectives

Rosa Maria Blanca — 2022-03-07

Through writing, visual associations of a Covidian convalescence are discussed. The main objective is to establish relationships between the different degrees of perception of the world and of itself. The actions and ways of survival at home during the pandemic experienced in the year 2020 and 2021 are also evoked. The foundations of perspectivism of Eduardo Viveros de Castro (2018) and the assumptions of the writing of Marguerite Duras (1993) are used. The result is a perceptual and silent poetics marked by the traces of the visions raised during a Covidian state, retrospectively affective.

Collective Poetic Productions with Participation and Collaboration

Cláudia Zanatta — 2022-03-14

The article deals with a poetic production in contemporary art where participatory and collaborative methods were the basis of a process, which resulted in collective works. The proposal was built from the “Giant Malas Artistic Project”, where the Mala, which is a necklace with 108 beads used in Buddhist meditation practices, was produced in large dimensions from ceramic beads about 7 cm in diameter, reaching approximately 6 to 8 meters in length when assembled. Throughout the project, the relationship between art, spirituality, Buddhism and ceramics was the guiding principle for the participants of the proposal, where manual making and mental presence were transformed into a meditative practice which in the end generated a symbol of collectivity where the spheres made individually connected through a thread giving birth to the Giant Malas. We started with an offer of classes, where ceramic techniques and reflections based on Buddhism were transmitted via YouTube; each participant connected and produced their spheres individually according to their motivation, there was no number or goal to be reached, but an invitation to practice. This process happened along with the period of social isolation due to the covid-19 pandemic, starting in May 2020. He had an expanded time so that many spheres could be made. In October 2021 we had the conditions that made it possible to gather a group to assemble the Malas and carry out collective installations.

Between human and animal – remarks on isolated territories

Mateus Scota — 2022-03-14

Este ensaio aborda as relações espaciais cotidianas a partir dos protocolos de isolamento impostos pela pandemia do vírus COVID-19 ao refletir sobre inversões de perspectiva entre territórios humanos e animais. Observamos como as noções de ocupação, territorialização e transgressão se deram a partir dos corpos de animais “invasores” para questionar como percebemos as justaposições espaciais e territoriais sob uma perspectiva não antropocêntrica? Perguntamos afinal o que o animal desveste em nós e nos revela quando da condição de uma reversão de sentidos sobre o aprisionamento?

Avec vous: um olhar compartrilhado

Flávia Maria de Brito Pedrosa Vasconcelos — 2022-03-14

O presente trabalho AVEC VOUS em formato de narrativas visuais tem uma poética compartrilhada conforme a artista visual Lucimar Bello indica. Emerge de discussões no Grupo de Pesquisa em Artes Visuais e Criatividade - AVEC, cadastrado no Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq, via Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM.

Com base nessas discussões, refletimos sobre o Projeto , contemplado pelo Edital de de 2020 e que no subprojeto Arte Contemporânea na América Latina, Criatividade e Inovação em Santa Maria busca aprofundar o estudo sobre teorias das Artes Visuais com enfoque nas narrativas decoloniais, através de leituras e investigação de dados dos artistas locais da cidade de Santa Maria tendo por objetivo maior visibilidade destes artistas. Como parte para produção das narrativas visuais nos apoiamos na análise bibliográfica de autores que tratam das mulheres artistas e da decolonialidade, atentando para a produção na América Latina de trabalhos em Artes Visuais.

A partir dessas configurações, selecionamos imagens que funcionam como narrativas visuais, percebendo como elas dialogavam de uma maneira que a pesquisa delineava à medida em que as discussões em grupo ocorriam, uma maneira narrativa do olhar, do apreender o perceber em que o trabalho artístico e o processo criador fazem parte de uma experiência produtora de sentidos.

A little pain, a poetic identity

Sandro Bottene — 2022-03-14

From cactus boy to Garoto-cacto. From profession of cactus grower to the cultivation of a poetic identity. From thorn of the cactus to pigmented and artificialized thorn on the skin of the performer. From intimate and subjectivity of the individual artist. From pain and its inherent bond to the body. This visual essay raises these relationships that run through my research in visual poetics. The title of this photo essay “A little pain, a poetic identity”, in turn, proposes to think about such connections, that may or may not be potentiated by the sensation of pain and are gradually unveiled through the creation process