Corpo e descolonização na arte brasileira contemporânea

Abstract

Starting from an approximation between Vilém Flusser and Donna Haraway, I investigate concepts, practices, technologies and aesthetics that brand, hierarchically organize and explore – in a word: colonize – our bodies. Subsequently, I discuss with Rodrigo Duarte's argument that a certain kind of corporeality that was repressed by several cultures could be understood as an “aesthetic” basis for a political movement of resistance to what Flusser called the programming of humanity by the apparatus, which corresponds, in general lines, to what Haraway called the informatics of domination. I defend the hypothesis of a double subversive possibility based on contemporary Brazilian artistic production that, in different ways, engage the bodies – the body of the artist, the bodies of the spectators/participants/cocreators, the social body – in decolonial practices. Finally, I update these topics considering the current situation of pandemic and social isolation.