Line of research: Art, Criticism, Creation
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3634320208508286
email: edemagalhaes@eba.ufrj.br
Research Project
AND IN ITS ORIGIN ALL IS RUIN. DECOLONIZING THE FIELD OF ART
The project “And in its origin all is ruin. Decolonizing the field of art” intends to think over and discuss how to decolonize the field of art, and understands that, more than a proposal, this has to be a contemporary demand. For such, a movement rather from its basis is necessary, that is, to act directly on the teaching of and research on art, on the education, both of professors and of artists. And the first question I propose is to consider Brazilian art outside the historical line of Western art. The French Mission established parameters and patterns that should be followed in Brazilian art, having as its main objective to conform the production of the colony according to the pattern of the metropolis, as if the art in Brazil just began from then on. As a result of that mission, the extinguishment of production from that period was promoted, keeping only one antecedent, round the bend or out of the hinges: Brazilian Baroque. Along the project, I propose to think as Rufino does propose: To be on the crossroads, ever open to more than one way, as a goal. Recognizing that the system extinguishes the cultural fundaments of the Brazilian people, founded on an indigenous know-how and a black know-how, which tactics can be employed to modify that extinguishment, instituted all over the country and consecrated in art institutions? Which tactics to be immediately employed to modify the teaching of art, where there are not, not even equitably, indigenous, black and trans professors? Why is the university reluctant to recognize knowledge based on other epistemes? Finally, which ethical issues are involved both in the keeping of the status quo and in the attempt to modify it? It is with these objectives that I introduce this project to PPGArtes.