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ends up not being seen as the basis for a of political upheaval like the one we are
FOR FREEDOM! civilized society, but the exception. experiencing, to find gaps in the social order
In these years, the vocation for where it is possible to resist and re-elaborate
By PATriCiA roUSSEAUx individualism was stimulated: in the way of the rules with which we are living. We have
living, of consuming, of living together, of the possibility to believe that caring for
i write this eDitorial at a critical moment creating. The construction of increasingly the other is a creative attitude, as well as
in Brazil’s recent history. closed social groups, which are fed back by building a collective curatorial project or
On the 22nd and 23rd of September, in the functioning and control of algorithms that encouraging collective works such as those
partnership with Sesc, we presented the determine who is who, who is worth what. presented in documenta fifteen, in Kassel.
Culture, Democracy and Reparation In this tune, art was also captured. Works There, through the concept of lumbung,
Seminar, at the Vila Mariana unit, in São Paulo. have become merchandise and, in a true collective work groups carried the intention
This edition brings some of the central dance of chairs, several of the professionals of denouncing fascism, defending nature,
questions raised by the speakers (the we see today running cultural institutions differences and friendship. This is the task
Seminar, recorded in its entirety, can come from the financial market or the that, more than ever, falls to us now.
be watched free of charge on the digital business sector, with the excuse or the
channels of arte!brasileiros and Sesc from need to ensure that they continue to exist. Collaborators [PAGE 06]
October 30, 2022) and by the collaborators. In this way, a perverse circuit puts in the issue 60 September October November 2022
When the magazine is launched, we will hands of buying and selling something that artebrasileiros.com.br
still not know the result of the presidential should be at the service of everyone. In the Cover: Arjan Martins, sem título [untitled],
elections in the second round in the country. last four years, in which the State has cut 2022 Photo: Pedro Agilson / Courtesy of the
Anyone who knows us knows that we investments, institutions have had to choose artist and A Gentil Carioca
understand culture and art as something to stop part of the participatory initiatives,
totally related to nature, there is no cut curatorial teams, educational programs, ERNANI CHAVES is a Full Professor
counterpoint to it. Art as a reflection of our conferences and performances. at the Faculty of Philosophy at the
time, when contemplation alone is no longer We have reached a new, cyclical impasse. Federal University of Pará. He studies
enough. Now, we have the obligation to think It is necessary to create mechanisms the relationships between philosophy,
about art and culture intertwined in the to encourage plurality in culture, we need psychoanalysis and racism. For this issue
defense of a democratic ideal of coexistence professional advice that is exempt from the of arte!brasileiros, he talks about Achille
and to reflect on how we can contribute, needs of the market. Academics need to Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics,
from our small space, to the overthrow learn management, to direct their efforts so bringing it to the context of Brazilian reality,
of obscurantism and backwardness. It is that institutions strike a balance between marked by slavery and racism.
impossible to declaim about aesthetics and public and private sponsorship. And market
ethics, imagining that we can omit ourselves professionals need to raise funds for this RODRIGO NAVES is a critic, art historian
in an alienated way. to happen, with clear rules. and professor, with a PhD in aesthetics
arte!brasileiros publicly supports the I quote here the philosopher Jacques from the Department of Philosophy at the
vote for the broad democratic front formed Rancière in Hatred of Democracy, written University of São Paulo. He has published
by different coalitions and movements of in 2005: essays and articles in several Brazilian
the popular force, against the candidacy “The laws and institutions of formal and foreign magazines, newspapers and
of the current president Jair Bolsonaro, democracy are the appearances behind and catalogs. In this issue, he writes about the
whose government has devastated us the instruments with which the power of the plastic artist Germana Monte-Mór, who has
during these last four years with proposals bourgeois class is exercised. The struggle an exhibition at Galeria Estação.
that we know well and that, with the greater against these appearances then became the
cynicism, passes behind the scenes laws path to a ‘real’ democracy, a democracy in FABIO CYPRIANO , art critic and
that withdraw investments from science, which freedom and equality would no longer journalist, is deputy director of the
education, culture, health and the be represented in the institutions of law Faculty of Philosophy, Communication,
environment, putting them at the service and the state, but would be embodied in Languages and Arts at PUC-SP and is part
of reelection. the very forms of material life and society. of the editorial board of arte!brasileiros.
After all, what democracy are we sensitive experience”. In this arte! Brazilians, he writes about
defending? “The new hatred of democracy can be government initiatives in the world of arts
As if centuries of social inequality, denial summed up in a simple thesis: there is only in Espírito Santo and makes an analysis
of structural racism, indiscriminate violence one good democracy, the one that represses of the controversies of documenta fifteen.
against entire indigenous peoples were the catastrophe of democratic civilization”.
not enough, from the 1980s onwards One of our guests for the Seminar, the LEONOR AMARANTE is a journalist,
neoliberalism gave way to a new type of philosopher and writer Hal Foster, who could curator and editor. She worked for the
concentration of power, not only economic, not travel and be with us, developed in his newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo, the
but also cultural. Growing offerings of book What Comes After Farce, the idea magazine Veja, TV Cultura and the Memorial
solutions to secure privileges popped up. that this act, this ruse, almost comical and da América Latina. She received the ABCA
Closed neighborhoods in condominiums, burlesque where we are immersed, could be awards for the edition of the magazine arte!
licenses for private uses in places with interpreted as an interlude, an interregnum, Brasileiros (2012) and the Ministry of Culture
a community profile, rejection of others which could give us hope that another of Cuba (2009), for her cultural performance
and attacks on those who think differently, time will come. In his words, “Nothing is in that country. In this edition, she writes
among some examples, ended up creating a guaranteed, everything is a struggle.” articles about the exhibitions Brazilian
hostile environment for public space, which We have the opportunity, in a moment Stories and Jose Claudio : Uma Trajetória.
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