A poética das encruzilhadas de Arthur Leandro/Tata Kinamboji: Atos de fazer Güera

Abstract

Inside of the line of research theories and epistemic interfaces in arts, fromthe GraduateProgram in Art at UFPA, I propose a cartography that covers part of the life experienceofArthur Leandro/Tata Kinamboji. This is an affirmative work, which brings Exuinfront toopen paths, with the intention of producing knowledge in which I present a conceptual andmethodological proposition that defends the poetics of this man as a crossroads, openinggapsbetween art, political activism in Traditions of African Matrix and the teaching of theartsinthe universities where he taught. I defend the idea of the fight for memory against oblivionabout who Arthur Leandro/Tata Kinamboji was with his poetic crossroads, as a politicizationof the same to mark a place of importance for this person for Culture and the Arts inthecityof Belém, and even in the Amazon . I listen to those who lived with Arthur and whonarratehis way of making art and I look for open possibilities of writing that intersect Arthur'slifeexperience and his Poetics of the crossroads, to say the concept created by himof Art-Güera,as an attitude of resistance to everything that diminishes and conditions life andart intooppression, so I will list four of these acts in the course of the text. At the same time, I evoketheorists who have already thought of the genocide of the black people as a project, relatingthe issue of the whitening of Brazilian culture to the needs of confronting and overcomingtheerasures generated by this attempt, such as Abdias do Nascimento, Luiz Rufino, LuizSimas,Zélia Amador de Deus, Muniz Sodré, among others – mostly black people, of course, tostrengthen an anti-racist way of knowing, with regard to the protagonismof knowledgeproduction by those who experience the hardships of this project firsthand. I connect thisbibliography to my travels, my traffic through the poetic practices of Arthur Leandro, narratednot only by me, not only with my gaze, but with everyone I could find crossing our paths. Ipropose, in addition to my writing, two poetic maps, one visual and one withreports, toencompass the other voices that cross these paths, within the cartographic methodthat thisresearch proposes. Here there is a glimpse of a life and yes, it is epistemology, becauseit isthe production of knowledge, it is poetics and it is a policy of valuing the Afro-Amazoniancultural heritage