Leonardo Bora
Doctor in Literary Theory from the Graduate Program in Literature Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with academic mobility period (Sandwich Doctorate) at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, in Nice, France. Currently, he is an adjunct professor of Foundations of Brazilian Literary Culture in the Department of Literature Science at the Faculty of Letters of UFRJ, permanent professor of the Graduate Program in Art History at UERJ (PPGHA) and visiting researcher of the Post-Doctorate Program in Cultural Studies of the Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture (PACC) at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He participates in the research groups Laboratory of Carnival Art (UERJ), Interdisciplinary Center for Carnival Studies (UFRJ) and Carnival Observatory (National Museum/UFRJ). Illustrator and writer, he develops narratives, illustrations and visual projects for various publications and carnival associations.
Research project
Title
Flesh, seas, carnivals: words embroidered at crossroads
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
The project, faced with the breadth of non-pacified theoretical debates about "colonial archives" (GANDHI, 1998, p. 5) and post-colonial, decolonial and counter/anticolonial paths, as well as the nebulous horizons of Brazilian contemporaneity, specifically, intends to rehearse transdisciplinary and interartistic readings inflated with the spirit of "Pedagogy of Crossroads" (RUFINO, 2019, p. 106). It focuses, for such purpose, on narratives and artistic-cultural productions that have perspectivized and resignified the vast theme of colonization and its developments, with emphasis on carnivalesque expressions and samba school plots, on Afro-Amerindian imaginaries and on the search for multicentric iconographic references. The objective is, from the "sewing" of theoretical "cuts" (or patches), to draw new horizons, something admittedly experimental and transdisciplinary. The possibility, in sum, of thinking about new maps and new flags – the making of a kind of cartography that helps us navigate through the work of the chosen artist-narrators.