Perspectivas outras para Belém: Análises autocríticas sobre arte educação no contexto não formal e informal

Abstract

This work presents reflections on how educational processes in Visual Arts can happen through curatorial processes, informal educational practices, and digital cultural mediations, which occurred in the context of a pandemic. To do so, I analyze three exhibitions that took place in 2019 and 2021, in which I actively participated in the curatorial processes and was able to analyze them from the inside out. For this analysis, I used the case study method with an interpretative bias, having the bibliographic research in different sources and the collection of data via participant observation as methodological procedures, which made it possible to interpret the experiences through the lines of the facts that were experienced. For the dialogue I shared the theoretical teachings of Paulo Freire (2019), Carlos Rodrigues Brandão (2007), Timothy Ingold (2010) e Jorge Larrosa Bondía (2002) to understand the different types of education and their different ways of learning; Éder Chiodetto (2013), Felipe Scovino (2016), Carolina Ruoso (2019), Maria Amélia Bulhões (2014), Rosangela Britto e Marisa Morkazel (2020) were responsible for conversing with me about curatorial processes and the art system in their national and local context; Djamila Ribeiro (2019a, 2019b), bell hooks (2017, 2019), Homi K. Bhabha (2001), John Fletcher (2020a, 2020b) e Rafael Bqueer (2020) to discuss identity revisions in the Brazilian art system; Ana Mae Barbosa (1991), Inês Ferreira (2014), Tereza Scheiner (2003), Teixeira Coelho (2004) to analyze cultural mediation through the artwork itself; Edward Taylor (1871), Franz Boas (2010), Clifford Geertz (2011, 1973), John Fletcher (2019) were the authors who helped to outline a brief conceptual introduction to Culture; Evelyne Patlagean (2005), Gilbert Durand (2001), Michel Maffesoli (2001) e Lucia Santaella (1999) composed the concepts about the formation of the Imaginary; and, finally, Oswaldo Francisco de Almeida Junior (2008) and Pierre Levy (1999) to glimpse the communicational and digital universe during the pandemic 2020/2021. I understand this dissertation as a self-critical analysis of professional experiences that made it possible to discuss other perspectives, places, and knowledge for art education, so I wish to have contributed to expand the educational processes in Visual Arts and to have helped to promote the diversification of local thinking about the role of Visual Arts and its importance in the formation of sociocultural perspectives.