Research Groups
Laboratório da Arte Carnavalesca (LAC)
Its objective is to bring together researchers interested in questioning traditional approaches to carnivalesque thought and proposing new focuses capable of placing them under new perspectives in the field of contemporary art and culture. It seeks to encourage discussions that propose new theories of academic thought on issues related to carnival in its broadest sense, including the forms assumed by the festival, its dramatic expressions, its forms of socialization, and its costume and allegorical manifestations.
Members
Felipe Ferreira e Marcelo Campos
LAPA
Laboratório de Artes e Políticas da Alteridade
Morrinho, 2019 (detalhe). Fotografia João Vergara.
Research group certified by CNPq, created in 2018, linked to the Institute of Arts of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). LAPA has two lines of research. They are: Art, politics of alterity and popular culture and Art and ethnic-racial relations. The line Art, politics of alterity and popular culture investigates the exchanges, connections, conflicts and negotiations between the fields of visual arts and popular culture within the scope of the politics of alterity. The research line Art and ethnic-racial relations addresses the connections between the fields of art, culture and ethnic-racial relations, through an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.
Members
Maurício Barros de Castro
Núcleo de Antropologia da Arte (N.A.d.A)
N.A.d.A is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research group. It brings together researchers linked to the Graduate Program in Social Sciences (PPCIS) and the Graduate Program in Art History (PPGHA) at UERJ. Its proposal is to study the relationships between production, circulation and reception of artworks in dialogue with Anthropology. In this sense, this research group seeks to think mainly about the contribution of Anthropology to Global Art History studies. Thus, the group emphasizes analyzing art in its anthropological meanings in the context of globalization and multiculturalism. We investigate how the art system manages links between institutions, spectators and discourses about alterity, mainly in the search for representation of post-colonial discourses, previously marginal to the system.
Members
Marcos Albuquerque, Marcelo Campos e Maurício Barros de Castro
NUCLEAR
Núcleo de Livres Estudos em Arte e Cultura
Ana Linnemann, Bordadinhos Modernistas (detalhe), 2009.
NUCLEAR is a research group that encompasses different academic and cultural actions, namely: development and/or supervision of research in the field of art and culture, involving professors and students from UERJ, as well as researchers from other institutions; conducting academic events, such as seminars, lectures, colloquia, courses, workshops, etc., expanding the exchange of information and experiences; publication, in the form of books, newspapers, magazines and electronic media, of texts on the subject; establishing national and international agreements and exchanges, expanding partnerships with other institutions also dedicated to the field of contemporary art and culture; participation in national and international academic events and publications.
Members
Fernanda Pequeno, Marcelo Campos, Rafael Cardoso, Reginaldo Leite, Roberto Conduru e Vera Beatriz Siqueira
Studiolo
Estudos em História da Arte da Antiguidade à Primeira Época Moderna
This research group is dedicated to the study of the reception of classical tradition, understood as a fundamental strand of Western thought and culture that mediates permanent interrelations between the so-called Classical Antiquity, Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. The group is structured around three fundamental axes: the artistic relations between Egypt and Imperial Rome; the uses and functions of Christian images in Europe between the 13th and 16th centuries; and the artistic-cultural exchanges between Italy, the Iberian Peninsula and the American continent during the Early Modern Period. Despite the diversity of its themes, the group has as a common denominator its connection to contemporary research fronts in the field of globalization, post-colonialism and the transit of artistic languages.
Members
Alexandre Ragazzi, Evelyne Azevedo, Maya Suemi Lemos, Maria Berbara e Tamara Quírico