TOWARDS A POETICS OF THE WILD: LINES OF CREATION BETWEEN BODY, SCIENCE AND ART

• Grant number: 24/17255-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Rodrigues de Amorim
• Grantee: Mariane Schmidt da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal is associated with the research project "New approaches in Science and Mathematics at school: itineraries in Art-Education", funded under the Public Education modality (Fapesp/SEduc 15317). The present research aims to analyze which bodies can be composed with collectives of basic education teachers, based on encounters with and between science, art, writing, in multispecies relationships and multiple worldviews. Inventing ways of doing, mapping bodies that can escape the biopolitical controls imposed by science and by the school itself. In all their efficiency, control machines penetrate educational processes, stealing subjectivities, wanting to appropriate life, obstructing the passage of affections, molding for themselves a certain humanity and a certain body. It is urgent to invent modes of resistance and subversion to pierce the machine and create new (im)possible worlds. Cartographing maps based on affections, symbioses between species, alliances between humans and non-humans and Deleuze and Guattari and Krenak and... Experimenting with the production of a Body without Organs with teachers in de-formation movements, wishing to provoke new modes of existence towards a poetics of the wild. Composing with the desire to update connections between science and art, starting from the sensitization of (exhausted) bodies that inhabit the school. Thinking about and with the body. Creating strategies to produce a living body, based on experiments between different knowledges and languages. Creating, collectively and in multiple alliances, a powerful body to exist, resist and reinvent (in) education. Using variant languages and different ways of understanding the world, we open gaps to re-sensitize bodies to perceive biology, the school and the world in a way that enhances life. May the events unfolding in these meetings reverberate more sensitive, ethically and politically implicated gestures and pedagogies, considering the differences and multiplicities of knowledge and existences. Among the specific objectives, we highlight: Collecting/producing powerful protocols of action as devices for thinking/creating a body, seeking alliances with bibliographical references, artists and artistic practices, scientists and indigenous myths that help to conceive these means of action; experimenting with different knowledges arising from varied languages ¿¿and epistemes (scientific, artistic and indigenous), allowing teachers to have access and be able to compose with them in their pedagogical practices, meeting the ethical and political demands required by law in an educational context; fostering discussions about the teaching of science and biology in basic education, problematizing issues such as biopolitics and the non-neutrality of science; seeking and partnering with artists/scientists who give visibility to other bodies, making interrelations between art and science possible; strengthening relations between public schools, universities and artistic and cultural productions; build collective materialities such as works of art, texts, films, performances, among others, with teachers based on the provocations awakened during the research. The methodology is based on the dimensions of research and intervention in the form of meetings between the researcher, partners (artists, scientists, members of indigenous communities) or devices (readings, practices, films, works of art, travel, among others) and teachers of basic education participants, operating from the cartographic method and research-creation. Both open the possibility of composing a research that is done with the subjects and not imposed on them. To construct a research that, when thought together with the multiplicities that it encounters, positions itself in a place of confrontation with the traditional models of research in human sciences that often represent and preserve the unequal power relations that permeate the academic context. (AU)