An inclusive odyssey grotesque and capacitism: about the artist and teacher Ana Amália

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/2175234615362023e0003

Keywords:

people as a disability, capacitism, grotesque, visual arts, art/education

Abstract

A photo-novel is presented here about the trajectory of the visual artist and teacher Ana Amália, who in 2002 suffered a stroke and became quadriplegic, mute and dysphagic. The objective of this photo-novela is to provoke reflections on ableism, since historically any type of disability has already been treated as grotesque, an issue she points out at the end. Because it is an artistic production, the qualitative research developed in a doctoral thesis carried out by her is associated with the artist's creative process, on which the narrative is structured. To this end, graphic and photographic resources are used with the same degree of importance as words, so that the many communication possibilities of a disabled person like Ana Amália can be perceived.

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Author Biographies

Ana Amália Tavares Bastos Barbosa, Pesquisadora independente

Visual artist and art/educator graduated from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP/SP), in 1991. She also studied History of Art, at Texas University at Austin; Design, at the School of Visual Arts and Lithography, at Columbia University, in New York/USA. He founded the company AEP - Arteducação Produções, in 2001. He holds a Master's (2003) and PhD (2012) in Visual Arts from ECA/USP and completed a postdoctoral degree at UNESP/SP, in 2017. On July 2, 2002, he had an accident cerebrovascular accident and, as a sequel, acquired the locked-in syndrome, that is, she became quadriplegic, mute and dysphagic, but fully conscious and with fully preserved cognition.

Jose Minerini Neto, Pesquisador Independente

2. Professor e pesquisador de artes visuais e educação, é doutor em Artes Visuais pela ECA/USP, com residência no Teachers College/Columbia University, em Nova York. Pesquisador independente. Currículo lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6031242208088301. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9190-6307. E-mail: jminerini@gmail.com

References

BARBOSA, Ana Amália Tavares Bastos. Além do corpo: uma experiência em arte/educação. São Paulo: Cortez, 2014.

MILLETT-GALLANT, Ann. The disabled body in contemporary art. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (tradução de Ana Amália, Beatriz Correa e José Minerini).

Published

2023-06-30

How to Cite

BARBOSA, Ana Amália Tavares Bastos; MINERINI NETO, Jose. An inclusive odyssey grotesque and capacitism: about the artist and teacher Ana Amália . Palíndromo, Florianópolis, v. 15, n. 36, p. 1–36, 2023. DOI: 10.5965/2175234615362023e0003. Disponível em: https://periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/article/view/23440. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.