Other “encruzas” for public art

elements of amerindian and afrodiasporic cosmovisions in the weave between alternative temporalities, communities with multiplicities and different teachings

Abstract

The paper seeks to broaden the ways in which the field of public art has been thought of in
the last two decades on Brazilian soil. Usually, the debate happens through foreign
bibliographies, with examples of artistic projects that take place in a different kind of
public space than the one we find in Brazil. On the one hand, the idea of nation presents
markers of colonization that are still very present (whiteness, sexism, cisgenerism,
heteronormativity), which seek to annihilate differences, but which are in collapse. On the
other hand, the Amerindian and Afrodiasporic cosmovisions present in this territory can
bring other perspectives and paths to take this crossroads in new directions. Learning with
the trans people, in the intersectional struggles, with the teachings of the terreiros, in the
Queer/Cuir culture, with the circularity of the various circles, to be able to review concepts
such as site specific or community based art. Finally, there is a brief report of a teaching
process with Japira Pataxó teacher in the arts course classes at UFSB, in Porto Seguro,
Bahia.