THE "SEEING MACHINES" OF JAIDER ESBELL

• Grant number: 22/01933-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2022
• End date: May 07, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning
• Principal Investigator: Ruy Sardinha Lopes
• Grantee: Mariana Abramo Fugagnolli
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Through the recognition of the recent protagonism that brazilian indigenous artists and curator have been performing in the national artistic scenario, the research focuses on one of its exponents, the Macuxi artist Jaider Esbell, with the purpose of better comprehending not only the reasons for that protagonism, but also the specificities and questions raised by his theoretical and artistic production. Notwithstanding his effort on behalf of an artistic "cosmopolitic" capable of tensioning the aesthetic contemporary regimes, the research aims to better comprehend the porosities that exists between those productions and its institutionalization.