ABOUT THE DOSSIER: EVERYDAY ARTISTIC PROCEDURES
ABOUT THE DOSSIER: EVERYDAY ARTISTIC PROCEDURES
This thematic dossier aims to host research focused on everyday artistic procedures in connection with educational and creative processes in the visual arts. It considers the common and resilient intersections that occur between these fields across various territories of investigation. The goal is to gather studies of artistic processes developed alongside everyday practices which, through their relevance in/of education, especially regarding the production of images and/or forms of visuality, are capable of expanding the artistic-pedagogical aspects of the procedures in question.
We maintain that everyday procedures, along with their pedagogical possibilities and transits, contribute to diverse understandings of artistic forms—especially those rooted in the sharing of meaning, a crucial and non-negotiable territory of education. We recognize that practices are never merely reduced to routine pragmatics or to the stereotyping of the ordinary. Rather, they are marked by pleasures and enjoyments that, in opposition to refusal, express the amorphous and extraordinary side of the everyday. The very nature of the everyday contains a rebellious and impertinent insignificance—gestures that resist the boredom of functional tasks. It holds the inescapable desire to defy the dullness of routine.
“The everyday is full of contradictions and ambiguities, for it carries both trivial and insignificant gestures as well as the spark that ignites the most advanced studies in social sciences, politics, and the arts. It is in everyday gestures that we find the simplest and most honest manifestations of everyone and anyone. The everyday is elusive. It evades strict control by the senses and subjectivities. It is deemed irrelevant and meaningless in the face of grand world events and political slogans, as the mundane does not dignify figures of power, nor does it name anything. And it is precisely there that the everyday slips away: It belongs to insignificance, and the insignificant holds no truth, no reality, no secret—but perhaps it is also the very site of all possible meaning.” (p.237)
The constant and resilient effort to engage with daily differences is far from alien to habitual logic. Such effort is often confused with the impulses of daily renewal, in which unfolding images and words amplify that difference. This is where its strangeness and uniqueness reside. Artistic practices seek to “sketch a theory of everyday practices in order to extract from their noise the ways of doing” (CERTEAU, 2000, p.17), making the everyday fundamental for the emergence of artistic and educational processes in the arts. Artistic practices attempt to integrate a constellation of everyday procedures, resulting in fragmentary artistic processes.
In this way, we hope the dossier will gather a range of artistic procedures as diverse and dispersed as the urban and domestic everyday life of the city.
References:
BLANCHOT, Maurice. Everyday Speech. In: The Infinite Conversation: The Limit Experience 2. São Paulo: Escuta, 2007, pp. 235–246.
CERTEAU, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2000.
HUCHET, Stéphane. The Artist’s Society: Activism, Death and the Memory of Art. São Paulo: Editora 34, 2023.
