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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025)
Published December 31, 2025
SYMBIOSES: dynamics between human and non-human in the art

The dossier Symbioses: dynamics between the human and the non-human in art invites reflection on artistic practices that destabilize the centrality of the human subject and interrogate the boundaries between matter, technique, body, and environment. By bringing together contributions that span visual arts, performance, cinema, educational practices, and decolonial research, the collection proposes thinking of art as a privileged field for the emergence of more-than-human relations, in which minerals, plants, territories, technological devices, and non-Western cosmologies actively participate in the production of meaning.

It explores shared modes of existence and forms of aesthetic cohabitation that enact profound epistemological shifts: from representation to presence, from separation to implication, from control to listening. The studies gathered here highlight the political and poetic power of symbioses in contemporary art, pointing to experiences that reconfigure notions of authorship, agency, and the imagination of futures while challenging hegemonic models of knowledge and ways of relating to the world.

     

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Dossiê: Poéticas do envolvimento - volume 7, número 1 (2026)

Dossiê: Poéticas do envolvimento

Volume 7, número 1 (2026)

Pretende-se apresentar um panorama crítico inspirado nas reflexões de Antônio Bispo dos Santos e Donna Haraway para fundamentar o presente dossiê “Poéticas do envolvimento”, defendendo a urgência de superar as lógicas coloniais e cosmofóbicas que produzem desconexão, devastação ambiental e o imaginário do Antropoceno. Em contraposição às narrativas modernas de “desenvolvimento”, afirma-se a potência do envolvimento como modo de existir e criar mundos, reconhecendo que a vida se forma nas interações entre humanos, outros seres e as materialidades que compõem o planeta. O dossiê propõe investigar como práticas artísticas — compreendidas como modos de habitar, de criar relações e de produzir alianças — podem operar essa poética do envolvimento com corpos, espaços, seres e tecnicidades, convidando autores a contribuir com artigos e experimentações que ampliem a conceituação do tema.

 


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November 19, 2025

Editorial

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Editorial
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Artigos

Adriana Vignoli, Christus Nobrega
The Artistic Residency as the Forestation of Creative Processes in Contemporary Sculpture
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Paola María Marugán Ricart, Damiana Bregalda
Reforesting bodies, Reenchanting territories: artistic practices of resistance and defense of life by women in Brazil
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Alessandro Gonçalves Campolina
Symbiotic Corpography: Experiential Learning with Proustian Signs and Huni Kuin Ritual Trance
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Ophélie Naessens
Women and stones: Some artistic rituals for reconnecting with the Earth
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Daiana Schröpel
Observatory of Interspecific Relations in Extreme Contexts: systemic thinking and speculative fiction in prospections about the human and the non-human
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Raquel Nava, Geraldo Orthof
STOMACHS: fragmented bodies and poorly digested ideas
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Lucas Lima Rios Feres, Lucas Brito Lago
How can we learn from places what memory is?: situated artistic practices in the Anthropocene
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Marco Antonio S Cherfêm
Cosmic Poetics: Ethnoastronomy in Contemporary Art
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Guilherme Barbosa Ferreira
Raw matter: reading works of art from an extra-modern perspective
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Paulo Ferreira de Carvalho Neto
The poetics of nature through the eyes of Darli de Oliveira
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Karine Rouquet
Poetics of the chimera: Thomas Cailley's The animal kingdom (Le règne animal), in light of Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Man/Animal in The animal that therefore I am (L'animal que donc je suis’)
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Nevena Ivanova
Artistic Imagination Beyond Technotopic Futures
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Paula Murari
Imaginary human and non-human characters in drawing practice in elementary school
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Curadorias

Nicolas Devigne
Outsider photo
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Entrevistas

Nikoleta Kerinska, Kapka Kassabova
Let’s be us : Interview with Kapka Kassabova by Nikoleta Kerinska
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