Art, its excluding reason and public policies

• Autor(a) principal: Da Silva Santos, Giordanna Laura
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Brandão, Ludmila, Guimarães, Suzana
• 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/36348
• topic: Art; Coloniality of art; Aesthetics; Decolonial aesthesis; Arte; Colonialidade da arte; Estética; Aesthesis decolonial

Aiming to establish a symmetrical approach to Mato Grosso visual productions for the collection of the Visual Virtual MT site, the project Visual Arts in Mato Grosso: collection, diffusion and criticism was faced with some impasses placed by the category "art". In order to de-hierarchize what the West calls the "artefact" (popular production), "artefact" or "prop" (indigenous productions) to preserve the category, we understand the functioning of art as a device of coloniality that sustains a value (Central European and American) production, and subalternates, in different positions, the production of the rest of the world. This hierarchy necessary for the maintenance of the artistic system, as conceived by the West, is guaranteed by an "excluding reasoning". This text addresses two of the various criteria that operate exclusion within the art category. Next, we rehearsed a critique of public policies in Brazil that ends up reproducing some devices of coloniality precisely by not confronting the categories.