Line of research: Art, Thought, Performativity
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/0576968930348730
email: isabelafrade@gmail.com
Research Project
THE I IS OTHER. ART AND ALTERITY IN THE OPEN CIRCUITS OF THE CITY
Based on a continuous field investigation which already sums to nearly two decades, the main objective of this research is to identify, within some cultural circuits of the city, rather identified with the various ghettos and territories of subaltern and peripheric groups, experiences of art and culture that could be summed to this perception of alterity and to an ethics of difference: Experiences with theater and visual arts from performing actions in an alternative space, such as a psychiatric hospital; the dance which emerges from territories of the city’s africanities and which translates the contemporary mirrorings of the African diaspora; the cinema and the audiovisual from Rio de Janeiro’s periphery. Productions which reinvent traditional and hegemonic modes of cultural production from their own models of belonging, of diffusion and of reception. Art as education, art and pedagogy, “art as vehicle” which is inscribed on the tenuous frontier between the aesthetic, the ethic, and the political.