"Impossible territories": experiments around the notions of “nature” and “artifice” in contemporary artistic practices

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v10i2.28417

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nature, artifice, art, artistic practice, desterritorialization and reterritorialization

Abstract

This article, based on the concepts of territory, deterritorialization and reterritorialization of the french philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, aims to analyze the terms of nature and artifice in their possible relationship with the domains of thought and current artistic practices. In dialogue with these, we will seek to understand how the spheres of production and artmaking exist immersed in a continuum of flows, exchanges, contaminations and interferences between both territories – the natural and the artificial –, becoming, symbolically and conceptually, in an alternative(s) to this historical polarization between terms or, as the french philosopher Clément Rosset would say, – a form of naturalization of man through the denaturalization of the idea of nature.

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Author Biographies

Maria Regina Ramos, Universidade do Porto (U.Porto)

Maria Regina Ramos (1992) was born in Vila Nova de Cerveira (North of Portugal) and has a Master's degree in Fine Arts – Painting, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), with the project “Closer Look: Fragments of a selected landscape – the garden” (2019), public defense in which she obtained the maximum classification of 20 points. As a non-doctoral researcher, recently integrated at the i2ADS - Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society and at Vicarte – Glass and Ceramics for the Arts, she has developed theoretical and practical research work, as well as contributed and collaborated in several publications and research events, with a main focus on the Visual Arts context. In addition to participating in congresses and scientific events, deeply linked to research in Art, she has been developing, as an artist, regular production since 2015, participating in a large number of events, competitions and exhibitions on a national and international level. In terms of thought and artistic practice, her interest has been centered around the fragmentation of the real, in order to question, from concepts such as "desterritorialization" and “reterritorialization”, the perceptive limits of the notion of "territory", linking a phenomenological, kinesthetic and experiential experimentation of a “micro” and “macro” cosmos of an archaeological nature, to a more conventional reframing of the notion of “landscape”. This issue is currently being developed in the Doctoral Program of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, under a research grant from the FCT - National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology.

Teresa Almeida, Universidade do Porto (U.Porto)

Teresa Almeida, plastic artist and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP). She has a degree in Fine Arts - Painting from FBAUP. She did two postgraduate degrees in “Glass and Architecture” and “Glass and Fine Arts” at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London; Masters in Art/Glass at the University of Sunderland, England; PhD in "Estudos de Arte" at the University of Aveiro and Post-Doctorate at VICARTE, both with a grant from the FCT. Since 2006, she has been part of the VICARTE Research Unit (Glass and Ceramics for the Arts), where she participates in several research projects and collaborates with i2ADS, Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society since 2011. She has participated in several international congresses, exhibits regularly in national territory and abroad, namely, Hong Kong, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, USA, Netherlands, Denmark, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Sweden, Finland, among others. She has publications in international journals, book chapters and curated works. She is currently an editorial member of Éter magazine and a member of the ICOM - Glass International Committee. Her artistic work focuses on glass as a plastic material, where environmental issues are addressed.

Domingos Loureiro, Universidade do Porto (U.Porto)

Domingos Loureiro was born in Valongo (1977) and holds a PhD in "Arte e Design" from the University of Porto. He accumulates his activity as a visual artist with his activity as a Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP), in the Department of Fine Arts – Painting. Integrated Researcher at the Institute for Research in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS). He accumulates various charges and functions associated with the Academy and is the author and editor of numerous scientific and academic papers. Award-winning artist, he has exhibitions in several countries such as Portugal, Spain, France, England, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, USA, Brazil, Japan, Germany, Canada and Holland.

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Published

22-11-2023

How to Cite

RAMOS, M. R.; ALMEIDA, T.; LOUREIRO, D. "Impossible territories": experiments around the notions of “nature” and “artifice” in contemporary artistic practices. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 10, n. 2, 2023. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v10i2.28417. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/28417. Acesso em: 23 jul. 2024.

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Dossier: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Field of Art