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Accepted Paper:
Paper Short Abstract:
This paper is structured around reflections addressing the trajectories of two artists: Ventura Profana and Tourmaline. In their works, counter-narratives and counter-visualities unfold in ways that oppose hegemonic discourses around the very notion of art and the notion of knowledge production.
Paper Abstract:
As a result of post-doctoral research in anthropology, this paper is structured around reflections developed from critical dialogues with decolonial theories, addressing the trajectories of two artists: Ventura Profana (born in Salvador, Brazil) and Tourmaline (born in Boston, USA). In their works, counter-narratives unfold in ways that oppose hegemonic discourses around the very notion of art, weaving narratives about the realities experienced by trans people and travestis in Brazil and in the USA. I seek to address some of the narratives of these artists around their processes of creation the production in their artistic works, taking into account that what they engender is evident as an specific form of production of situated knowledge, that is, they work to materialize systems of knowledge or epistemes through investigations in the field of art, visualities and multimodality. Their actions are developed in very exclusionary institutional contexts, both inside and outside the institutionalized "art world" (museums, galleries, temporary exhibitions, art criticism) and also in their daily experiences, expressed in social, gender and racial inequalities that also stand out. Thus, investigating their epistemologies and visualities, I approach their actions in the face of the structural and epistemic violence they experience, tracing here a critical path around the current insertion of trans people and travestis in institutionalized spaces in the field of art, in dialogue with theorists, such as Jovanna Cardoso, Keyla Simpson, Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus, Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos, Megg Rayara Gomes de Oliveira, Letícia Carolina Pereira do Nascimento, Tiffany Odara, among others.
Doing social justice and undoing inequalities through creative practice research: art, agency, and activism
Session 2 Thursday 18 July, 2024, -