Pós-objetalidade: joia efêmera, escultura gestual e outras interpolações entre corpo e objeto

Abstract

This thesis aims to present the Ephemeral Jewel as a proposal for an expanded concept of jewelry, which focuses on the indexed meanings and affectivity, transposing them to the post-object condition of a jewelry-performance, built from experience with an object-affect. In this context, we discuss objectality, corporeality, the incorporeal, gesture, memory and the intermediary relations, interval and intersections between body and object, dialoguing with Anne Cauquelin, Jean Baudrillard, Vilém Flusser, among other theorists. Based on the (auto)biographical method, which includes the subjectivity of the author's narratives as a subject and creator and of the participants in the reported experiences, the performative experiences of Ephemeral Jewelry, of Gesture Sculpture and related and/or resulting from a qualitative approach, carried out through direct observations, semi-structured interviews, testimonials and, finally, content analysis. In addition, the concept of ephemeral jewelry is developed through the experience of imprinting shapes on the skin, such as a dry relief obtained through the pressure of affection-objects on the body, during a certain period of time, and the resulting marks, prolonged through photographic and videographic records that allow discussions about the space between body and object; the meanings of the interstices; the superimposition of the object on the body as a premise of the jewelry; the duration, as a temporal interval; the objectal condition of the jewel and the proposition of a no-objectality in reflections within a philosophy of objectality and art that point to a proposed theory of post-objectality. Another proposal is that of gestural sculpture, which establishes a connection with the so-called social sculpture by Joseph Beuys. As jewelry is produced in different fields, in terms of artist jewelry, author jewelry and jewelry design, the study does not intend to exhaust the interrelationships between art and design in jewelry. The focus is, above all, in the experience and performative action. In the theoretical panorama, the research fills gaps in the academic literature on the non-objectal and ephemeral result in the fields of art and design, recording its passage through the context of the Covid-19 pandemic (Sars-Cov-2). Under the practical prism, the study contributes to the incorporation of the sensitive and the prevalence of the semantic dimension in the elaborations of objects and the insertion of the subjects, their objects and stories in the artistic action, within the visual arts, providing elements to do it in both fields. It is believed that researchers and agents of art and design can use the results of this research as subsidies for an integrative approach to these areas that accompany changes in society, especially with regard to interactions with objects.