What can we (un)learn from art? Aesthetic-corporeal knowledge and the construction of (an)other knowledge(s)

Abstract

In this research, sustained by art, Cultural Studies, and science, we seek to present a brief epistemological path of the Western scientific constitution and its articulations with aesthetic-artistic knowledge, as well as to propose new possible connections between science and art in a postcolonial and postmodern perspective, of knowledge and aesthetics outside the Eurocentric paradigms, and that accept the political and ethical virtuality in the agency of new subjects and histories. Within this epistemological field, we problematize how aesthetic-corporeal knowledge enhances the production of (an)other knowledge(s). As a reflexive device, we find in the Brazilian baroque art (historical period of colonization) and, more specifically, in the painting of Papa negro (Black Pope), present inside the Church of Santa Efigênia, in Ouro Preto-MG, the materialization of aesthetic-corporeal knowledge as metaphors of transformation, in other words, open paths that allow us to imagine what the world would be like if the prevailing cultural values ​​were questioned and transformed.