Cartographying Existential-(A)e(s)th(et)ic Territories: Between (Re)existent Images, Politics and Poetics

In this essay, starting from a cartographic perspective and taking our respective post-doctoral research as a backdrop, we look at the work of the Turkish artist Ugur Gallenkus and grafts from the play Outros, by the Brazilian theater group Galp & atilde;o. From such aesthetic productions, we present the challenge of an ethical-political diagnosis of the present time based on what happens to us. Here, the thought of feminist, black, indigenous, queer, decolonial authors emerges as a guiding and inspiring compass for questioning the colonial, biopolitical and necropolitical devices in vogue. After all, what does contemporary art, as experimentation and process, have to tell and question us? Between presences and absences, said, unsaid and cursed, bodies, images, scenes (d)enunciate the arbitrariness and cynicism of colonial enterprises. We believe that, if the present continues to be marked by necropolitics, in which human contingents are daily and repeatedly thrown to their own devices, art emerges with a resistant ethical-aesthetic-political breath.