Comunicação, Bioarte e Bioidentidades: discursos estéticos sobre as corporeidades contemporâneas

Abstract

The increasing development in science and technology pushes society to live in another manner, bringing technological assimilation to our lives at a time that can be referred to as biocontemporaneity, marked by identity constructions strengthened by the image of the body, that is, bioidentity. This research aims to highlight the biological discourses of contemporaneity, which can be found in the Bioart movement and its close relationship with biotechnology. These methods and techniques are applied in order to build artistic aesthetic applications, linked to the body and its fragmentation, spreading through the social context and creating new possibilities of subjectivity. The triad - arts, science and technology - feeds the questions about the scenario that occupies the body in face of the possibilities opened by it. The hypothesis which guides us, is that the weakness, which shows the body, in this context, as passive matter, simultaneously places it in highlight and crisis, through an emerging questioning on the acquiesce hence the adherence of biotechnologies. Opening in the contextualization of the concept of body in the twentieth century, beside the concept of Biopower, described by Michael Foucault, as well as the description of artistic movements - such as performances and Body Art - and the new media - such as film and photography initiated in this period - and the contextualization of artists and works inserted in a bio-artistic speech, constitutes a panorama in which the body is under a new social and aesthetical perspective.