Abstract:
An artistic and theoretical investigation on fossil fuels, industrial agencies in nature and their reflections on social structures and power systems. With the goal of inspecting the operation of the arts in the cosmopolitical battles of the present - especially in the new geological epoch called Anthropocene - the article analyses performance and sculpture as practices that could materialize crossings of temporalities and dimensions, reflecting on the encounter between the scales of the human and the planet. Bruno Latour’s Actor-network theory is a departing point for conceptual speculations, developed with the freedom and experimentation that moves artistic research.
Keywords:
Body; Contemporary Art; Fossil Fuels; Anthropocene; Climate Change
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Source: Performance oriented to video, made by the author. 25 min., 2015
Source: artwork made by the author in collaboration with Pedro Urano. Sculpture (wood, glass and bitumen), 22 x 40 cm, 2016. This artwork was done during the PhD visiting period at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, in Stockholm, Sweden, with the Capes PDSE Fellowship. Special thanks to the technicians and professors at Konstfack’s wood and glass workshops
Source: Tempo Fóssil exhibition (Galeria Ibeu, Rio de Janeiro, 2016)