Skin marks: reflections on tattoo, identity, and postmodern schooling

• Autor(a) principal: Baliscei, João Paulo
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Stein, Vinícius, Chiang, Chih Wei
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital do LAV ( Laboratório de Artes Visuais)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revislav/article/view/19673
• topic: Cultural Studies; Post-modernity; Liquid modernity; Cultural pedagogies; Body; Estudos Culturais; Pós-modernidade; Modernidade líquida; Pedagogias Culturais; Corpo

The purpose of this article is to establish relationship between tattoo, identity and schooling. To investigate the proposed theme, we have developed a bibliographical research in which, at a first moment, we problematize the different understandings attributed to the identities of the subjects. In a second moment, we highlight the pedagogical potential of the images in post-modern society, and thirdly, we investigated the tattoo as a visual artifact that marks the identity of postmodern individuals. From these topics, we consider that the daily images exert educational functions. Moreover, we identified that in post-modernity, as in previous times, the subjects used the tattoo to mark membership in certain groups and to enhance the aesthetics and beauty of the body.