Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Dora Longo Bahia
2023-2024
Home institution
Universidade de São Paulo
Country of origin (home institution)
Brazil
Discipline(s)
Arts and arts studies
Theme(s)
Contemporary violence & Justice
Democracy, Citizenship, Governance
Visual Arts
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Dora Longo Bahia is a multimedia artist living and working in São Paulo, Brazil. Her artistic work is focused on her predicament as an urbanite dealing with subjects like violence, sex and death, through painting, photography, sound, video and set design. She completed her PhD on Visual Arts at ECA-USP, where she currently works as a professor at the Department of Visual Arts. She participated in several exhibitions, amongst them: 2017, 35 o Panorama da arte brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; 2012, Eloge du Vertige, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; 2011, MDE11, Shifting Constructs, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; 2008, 28 a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo; 2005.
Research Project
Art after the supersession of art
In recent years, numerous authoritarian regimes have been installed, reminiscent of the dictatorships of the mid-20th century. These governments have not been able to manage the pandemic effectively, and their actions have shown an irresponsibility for the health and safety of their citizens. As a result, various collective initiatives have emerged to protest against these governments, drawing on aesthetic strategies that can be related to the actions of groups of artists and activists from the 1960s.
New aesthetic strategies must be developed to reflect the social, economic, and political changes that have occurred over the last 60 years. Dora Longo Bahia aims to investigate the social role of the contemporary artist, having as a starting point the supersession of art claimed by the Situationist International. The similarities and differences between groups as the SI and Provo will be highlighted and related to contemporary artist initiatives.
Research Interests:
Art and activism; aesthetic strategies of protest; Situationist International legacy; contemporary authoritarianism