RELATIONSHIP TECHNOLOGIES: ARTISTIC DEVICES TO CREATE PARENTAGE BETWEEN SPECIES

Authors

  • Graziela Brum da Silva Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55028/7aqsdj21

Abstract

This critical-creative essay is born from the encounter between a woman and a rosewood tree (Aniba rosaeodora), named Aniba, in the Amazonian territory of Campo de Heliantos (Alter do Chão, Pará), and from the gesture of creating a kinship with her. Mobilized as technologies of relation are the ethnographic diary (inspired by the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik), the monotypes (unique impressions between skin and bark), and the photoperformance (the female body as a support alongside the tree). Through these artistic devices, a transcorporeal bond is established and the term transtemporal — of thickened times — is evoked, seeking to open, for both tree and woman, new ways of existing and relating in the face of a present in ruins. The violent past of the decimation of 2,000 specimens of Aniba rosaeodora (floricide) for the benefit of the European perfume industry is ritually and poetically re-inhabited, so that from this dwelling another relationship with the future may emerge. Against this arbitrary context, the artistic devices do not claim to heal, but to rebuild new knowledges, new ways of being and connecting. Engaging with Donna Haraway and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, the text affirms affective writing and artistic practice as modes of producing existential territories of subjectivity and kinship with the more-than-human, while refusing both anthropocentrism and the colonial romanticization of the forest.

Published

2026-09-10