Colocando os Óculos: Apontamentos Sobre Cosmotécnica do Vestir na Obra Nordeste Futurista

Lara Victoria Sorbille; Ana Carolina Acom

doi:10.21814/vista.6281

Authors

Lara Victoria Sorbille Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2471-5067
Ana Carolina Acom Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7106-0401

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.6281

Keywords:

Nordeste Futurista, clothing technology, cosmotechnics, aesthetics

Abstract

This article analyses the first two tracks of the visual album Nordeste Futurista (Futuristic Northeast) by artist Luana Flores, exploring how clothing and art direction are fundamental elements in establishing the “futuristic” narrative that the work projects onto the territory, challenging stereotypical representations of the Brazilian Northeast. Through the lens of cosmotechnics (Hui, 2020), the study examines how Flores’ work aesthetically dissolves the supposed opposition between ancestral and contemporary technologies in dialogue with quilombola and Indigenous cultures of the region. The analysis focuses on clothing as an element in the construction of an aesthetic discourse that challenges colonial imaginaries of underdevelopment, also appropriating the futuristic imagery of classic science fiction cinema. In this investigation, clothing technology is thought of as “cosmotechnics”, a theory proposed by philosopher Yuk Hui (2020) that refers to technology manifested in different forms, as it always emerges and carries within itself specific cosmologies and contexts, questioning the vision of a single, universal technology that is more or less “advanced”. The article examines the use of wearable artefacts such as virtual reality glasses, woven straw hats and fabrics such as chita (floral printed cotton), demonstrating how these elements carry cultural and historical meanings while at the same time being re-signified in a “futuristic” context. Challenging the neutrality of coloniality of seeing (Barriendos, 2019), we present some visual representations of the Brazilian Northeast that have been historically distorted to legitimise practices of domination. By analysing the aesthetics of the visual album Nordeste Futurista, this study seeks to disrupt the standardised imagery of the Northeast region of Brazil, which dialogues with the underdeveloped imagery of Latin America, emphasising the local cultural potential and the importance of recognising Indigenous and quilombola cosmotechnics in our daily lives and the construction of possible futures.

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Author Biographies

Lara Victoria Sorbille, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

Lara Victoria Sorbille is a master’s student in the Interdisciplinary Programme in Latin American Studies at the University of Latin American Integration, with a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies from the same institution. She participated in an academic exchange programme at the Autonomous University of the Caribbean, Colombia, through the Brazil-Colombia Student Exchange Programme. She has experience in the arts, with an emphasis on documentary screenwriting, multimedia languages, and video performance. She worked as an art researcher in the group Poéticas do ENTRE: Corpo, Escuta e Criação Artística.

Ana Carolina Acom, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil

Ana Carolina Acom holds a PhD in Society, Culture and Borders from the Western Paraná State University. She has a master’s degree in Education from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the same institution. She is a specialist in History and Latin American Studies and in Fashion, Creativity and Innovation from the SENAC-Rio Grande do Sul Faculty of Technology. Co-leader of the Research Group: History of Art and Fashion Culture (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development/Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul). She researches fashion, cinema and other arts from the perspective of aesthetics, philosophy and art history. She conducted postdoctoral research in the Postgraduate Programme in Society, Culture and Frontiers at Unioeste, with a study entitled Fronteiras e Estéticas no Cinema Latino-Americano: Entre Personagens, Traduções e Culturas (Frontiers and Aesthetics in Latin American Cinema: Between Characters, Translations and Cultures). She teaches Philosophy at the Western Paraná State University. She is also a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher with a Capes scholarship in the Interdisciplinary Programme in Latin American Studies at University of Latin American Integration.

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