Within Objects and Gestures, the Aesthetics of the Vulgar
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2238-2046.2024.52667Keywords:
Vulgar, Deconstruction, Situation, Counter-hegemonyAbstract
This paper considers the vulgar as a radical aesthetic experience in contemporary times.
The objective is to question the aesthetic and political hegemony that oppresses diversities. To legitimize everyday vulgarity, the argument mobilizes Walter Benjamin’s concept of “profane illumination”, Mikhail Bakhtin's “grotesque realism”, and Susan Sontag's “camp”. As a method, the text critically analyzes Ventura Profana’s work “Tabernáculo da Edificação”. The results show that transforming materialities through performance creates a situation that challenges traditional binaries, such as subject and object, artist and audience, beauty and grotesque, function and form, and sacred and profane. The vulgar reveals itself as a deconstructive strategy that promotes resistance and revolution against hegemony.
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