Editorial

Abstract

The Contemporary - PPGART / UFSM Magazine presents this issue, as a proposal of artistic publication, bringing together poetic, essays, and delightfully subjective and aesthetic works.

The work of Rosana Bortolin, presented as a visual essay, exposes a contemporary poetics in ceramics, arising from the subjective potential of the artist. Bortolin intensifies the sensitivity of the feminine in its contradictions, uncertainties, tensions and (of) organic and (un) natural formations.

As a video essay, Contemporânea shows the work of Jessica Becker. Jessica Becker creates an irony from her gesture as an artist. A vertigo develops in a rhythm of (de) construction, exposing the (in) tolerably real process of the demands in the constitution of itself like artist.

Bianca Knaak produces a critical reading of Adir Sodré's work. Knaak's writing, in "Queer Visuality and the Painting of Adir Sodré in the 1980s", imposes itself eminently, conceptualizing with precision and elegance the work of the Brazilian artist. Rather than being a reading, Knaak updates the language of history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts by proposing an authorial writing of (trans) disciplinary content.

Cláudia Zanata, in "Here we are. Where things are touched: an artistic practice with those who seek to root (in displacement) ", proposes a poetics of space. A rotating cartography and in different overlaps contributes to the detachment of the identity perception. The artist proposes approximations and interactions from the possibilities and multiple dispositions of the maps, suggesting aesthetic (in) definable dimensions.

Camila Matzenauer and Gisela Biancalana present "Rubra fluidez: a performance on menarche". Through time as narrative, Matzenauer retakes the experience of self and others, to give body to his feminine performance, without ignoring the cultural construction of the sexed body. His poetics is manifold and assertively particular. Matthew Scota and Rebeca Stumm contribute to the article "Human-animal space in contemporary art: readings by Hal Foster and Isabelle Stengers." Scota analyzes the modes of perception as conceptions of methods capable of influencing the processes of artistic production in contemporary art.

Rita Barbosa Oliveira and Marta Lira study the uniqueness of language in her article "The everyday life in the poems of Adélia Prado and Sophia de Mello Breysen Andresen". The authors reveal feelings that emerge from the everyday life of the individual (s). The everyday as a philosophical and poetic object produces a critical (re) enchantment with life.

In his essay "When in a small neighborhood bookstore lit by a yellow light ... - or wandering in the impossibility of an article of research methodology", Mesac Silveira Junior recounts the interstices of a daydream. An everyday aulic develops in his writing. Navigating between the intimate and the city, Mesac becomes the very subject of his work.