Passibility in the painting gesture

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https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.218346

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Passibility, Painting, Experience, Introspection

Abstract

The concept of experience, as  suggested by pragmatism, forces us  to think about activity together with passibility. The objective of the article is to substantiate the centrality of the latter in artistic creation and to think under what modalities it is experienced empirically by painters in the pictorial gesture. Based on  ethnographic research carried out in a social and psychiatric support institution where there is a painting studio with the aim of empowering its users, we conclude that passibility (i) can turn outwards during the pictorial process, or (ii) towards the interior, giving rise to an introspective  moment that serves as a motto for painting. We thus demonstrate that passivity and activity are intrinsically coupled in painting.

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Author Biographies

  • José Manuel Resende, Universidade de Évora

    Sociólogo, doutorado em Sociologia pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, UNL. Desenvolve desde 2007 uma rede internacional de pesquisa – “Fazer, desfazer e refazer o comum no plural nas socialidades  modernas: controvérsias, vulnerabilidades e reconhecimento”. A partir dele realizaram nove Encontros Internacionais desde 2009 a 2022. Tem um vasto número de publicações em revistas nacionais e  internacionais, capítulos de livro e livros.

  • José Maria Carvalho, Universidade de Évora

    Mestre em Sociologia na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, é doutorando em Sociologia na Universidade de Évora. Tem trabalhado no domínio da Sociologia das Artes, estudando a Literatura em contexto escolar e a criação da Pintura e a da Dança em instituições que acolhem populações em situação de vulnerabilidade, tais como a prisão e centros de apoio psiquiátrico.

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2024-08-19

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Resende, J. M., & Carvalho, J. M. (2024). Passibility in the painting gesture. Tempo Social, 36(2), 217-238. https://doi.org/10.11606/0103-2070.ts.2024.218346