Line of research: Art, Subject, City
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3987389036459602
email: victorjunger@gmail.com
Research Project
Art in Relation to the Common: Cartographies for Human and Citizen Formation
Regarding the crises and impasses of contemporary times, the project proposes to investigate Art in its relationship with the common for the regular, formal or informal formation of citizens. Formation that, in the political citizenship’s exercise, in the participation in city affairs, presupposes the renegotiations between human, interspecies and cybernetic communities, the deterritorializations between city, countryside and forest, the decodings between race, gender and class in the face of the violent flows of capital accumulation. For, the regular, formal or informal formation of citizens is committed to contemporary crises and impasses to the extent that, through them, the common is constantly reconfigured in the sharing of spaces, times and bodies. Art thus participates in such reconfiguration by differentiating, in the sensitive, the ordinariness of everyday life and the specificity of artistic productions, in an exercise of fictionalization reaffirmed by territories, codes and subjects. At the same time, it mobilizes interventions in the unified fictionalization of these same territories, codes and subjects, problematizing the meaning of their functioning for the collective realization of the common. However, the effects of its interventions are not limited to a dissenting staging in the face of the simplified arrangement of everyday life, nor to a voluntarist denunciation of the factual exercise of power. There are interventions of Art that, in their relationship with the common, in frank dispersion throughout the city, promote formative effects in the communication flows of the mainstream media and digital networks, in the implementation of curricula by schools and other learning spaces, in the consolidation of heritage by museums, biennials and educational sectors, in the commercial transactions practiced by art fairs, galleries and auction houses. Art happens to be understood collectively in the dissent of its dispersion and, thus, realized in the multiplicity of relationships for the common. In this sense, the project seeks to outline its condition of multiplicity based on cartographies that, beyond their institutional or market commitments, in the face of contemporary crises and impasses, can inform training processes relevant to current social challenges. The recognition of such processes whose developments problematize and respond to humanitarian, environmental, political, artistic and epistemic issues can strengthen the recognition of Art for the common good and favor the sharing of its contributions, especially with educational institutions that, within the scope of Basic Education, are primarily responsible for the human and civic formation of the population.