Prácticas artísticas colaborativas para empujar el cielo y respirar

Abstract

This article, whose title uses the Brazilian indigenous expression “push the sky”, is a theoretical reflection about the global crisis, accentuated by the pandemic event, and proposes to think, from the scope of art, how we can move forward, better than before. Would collaborative art/socially engaged art and the role of the artist, in this context, act as alternatives to subvert the crisis and transform society? In this way, this article approaches art as a field of doing and acting, far beyond the established theoretical discourses. Thus, we discuss art as a ground for doing, based on Alan Kaprow’s concept of art and life and considerations around contemporary collaborative artistic practices. Throughout this study we intend to problematize the Eurocentric knowledge, which operates in an excluding way, bringing the thought of Brazilian indigenous authors such as Ailton Krenak, Davi Kopenawa, Kaka Werá, Jaider Esbell; in dialogue with the Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui and the Bolivian indigenous sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui. Both authors, of non-Western origin, tension and enrich the discourse around the Anthropocene. This text also uses contemporary artistic references with Brazilian indigenous people to reflect on new paths fostered by collaborative practices in art and its horizontal methods. Among the notes of this study, it was possible to glimpse the artistic field as a potency to create other theoretical and practical conceptions, towards the decolonization of general knowledge, despite all the structural refusal of the global system.