Doing Away With Borders: Jornal de Borda Goes Beyond the Frontiers of Art

Fernanda Grigolin; Mirna Wabi-Sabi

doi:10.21814/vista.4014

Authors

Fernanda Grigolin Pós-Graduação de Cultura Visual e Arte Latino-Americana, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4305-6912
Mirna Wabi-Sabi Plataforma9p9, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0955-2429

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4014

Keywords:

visual culture, art, life, anarchism, printed publication

Abstract

Artists' publications are often used in contemporary art studies in discussions about the printed page. However, these publications go beyond their nomenclatures and place in art institutions. The boundaries of visual arts are increasingly blurred, and discussions of works of art become more potent when viewed within the broader spectrum of visual culture. Aesthetics have the power to produce knowledge and establish relations with ways of living and being in the world and throughout history. Publications, as such, are social places that can mediate these relationships between people, especially when it involves issues like feminism, capitalism, and decoloniality. The Jornal de Borda — an anarchist visual culture newspaper circulated in Latin America in Portuguese and Spanish between 2015 and 2021 — is an example of artistic expression through printing. It strategizes the name of dissenting bodies — referred to as “corpas” — in the context of art within visual culture; it establishes relations between these bodies and anarchism within the Latin American context; and the aesthetic relates directly to other newspapers from the last century, such as A Plebe, honoring history as it makes history.

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Author Biographies

Fernanda Grigolin, Pós-Graduação de Cultura Visual e Arte Latino-Americana, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Fernanda Grigolin is a transdisciplinary artist, editor, and PhD researcher in visual arts at State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. She has worked for 20 years with publications between production, edition, circulation, and research. She has conducted the Tenda de Livros projects since 2014 and Jornal de Borda, 2015–2021. She received the following awards: Funarte Marc Ferrez of Photography (2012), Proac Artist's Book (2014), Proac Publications (2015), and Proac Visual Arts (2016). Fernanda has published five artist's books and written Sou Aquela Mulher do Canto Esquerdo do Quadro (I Am That Woman on the Left Corner of the Board).

Mirna Wabi-Sabi, Plataforma9p9, Brazil

Mirna Wabi-Sabi is a writer, editor, translator, and publisher from Niterói, Brazil. She is the founder of the Plataforma9 initiative and the author of the bilingual pocketbook Anarcho-Transcreation (Anarco-Transcriação). She is an independent researcher.

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