From queer ecology towards haunted aiesthesis: disorientation, care and futurities in the LGBTQIAPN+ artists' moving image from the Brazilian Amazon.

• Grant number: 23/02412-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Video Arts
• Principal Investigator: Larissa Maués Pelúcio Silva
• Grantee: Danilo Nazareno Azevedo Baraúna
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes, Comunicação e Design (FAAC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

How LGBTQIAPN+ moving image artists from the Brazilian Amazon have been imagining queer ecological futures for the Amazon? This project explores the Brazilian Amazon as a potential territory for the establishment of sustainable futures from the perspective of queer ecology, analysing artists' moving image produced by LGBTQIAPN+ artists from this region. These moving image works integrate the ]Archive[ of the UFPA's Amazoniana Art Collecion, which is composed of artists such as Allyster Fagundes, Rafael Matheus Moreira, Luciana Magno, Danielle Fonseca, Orlando Maneschy, Qualquer Quoletivo, Keyla Sobral, Rafael Bqueer, Uýra Sodoma, Keyla Sankofa e Nay Jinknss. Methodologically, I will implement an approach based on queer phenomenology and methodological procedures based on queer oral history, in order to explore the affects that can emerge through the encounter with the moving image works and with the studied artists. My hypothesis is as follows: the LGBTQIAPN+ moving image artists from the Brazilian Amazon have been employing in their work a haunted aiesthesis, here understood as a queer ecological practice, that aims to disorientate modes of conviviality between the human and non-human, to develop practices of care of the region, and to imagine queer futures for the Amazon. It is expected that the results of this research can act as theoretical reference for future research in the fields of queer studies and the visual arts in the Amazon, a relationship scarly explored in academia. Accordingly, I hope to demonstrate the importance of analysing and dissemniating these artworks for the understanding and overcoming of the Amazonian ecological challenges. Some of the scholars approached in this research include Ailton Krenak (2021), Catriona Sandilands (1994, 2010), Gil Vieira Costa (2014), João de Jesus Paes Loureiro (2014, 2015), Larissa Pelúcio (2016, 2014), Nicole Seymour (2013, 2022), Orlando Maneschy (2013) e Wendlin Küpers (2020).