Leonardo Bora
PhD in Literary Theory from the Postgraduate Program in Literature Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a period of academic mobility at the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, in Nice, France. He is currently a professor at the Department of Literature Science at the Faculty of Arts at UFRJ, a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Art History at UERJ (PPGHA) and a visiting researcher at the Postdoctoral Program in Cultural Studies from the Advanced Program of Contemporary Culture (PACC) at the Faculty of Arts at 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). Designer and writer, he creates narratives, illustrations and visual projects for various publications and carnival associations.
Research project
Title
Fleshes, Seas, Carnivals: Embroidered Words at the Crossroads
Area of Inquiry and Research
Art and Otherness
Description
The project–given the breadth of unpacified theoretical debates about “colonial archives” (GANDHI, 1998, p. 5) and post-colonial, decolonial, and counter/anti-colonial paths, as well as the nebulous horizons of contemporary Brazil, specifically–intends to rehearse transdisciplinary and interartistic readings emphasizing the spirit of “Pedagogy of Encruzilhadas” (RUFINO, 2019, p. 106). For this purpose, it focuses on narratives and artistic-cultural productions that have put into perspective and re-signified the vast theme of colonization and its consequences, with a particular interest in carnival expressions and the plots of samba schools, on Afro-Amerindian imaginaries and the search for references multicentric iconography. The objective is, from the “sewing” of theoretical “cuts” (or patches), to design new horizons, something admittedly experimental and transdisciplinary: the possibility, in short, of thinking about new maps and new flags – creating a kind of cartography that helps us navigate the work of the chosen artist-narrators.