Revista Estado da Arte

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.