Social and Environmental Demands Through the Art of TransArchitecture Project: Deterritorializing and Building Networks

Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine Abstract Redefining its objectives based on the current needs for social change, the seismic tremors of contemporary radical art and its approach to the moving contexts of present times can be a political instrument to unveil and struggle for new landscapes. TransArquitecture (2019, in progress), of Brazilian, queer-feminist and post-anarchist artist Adrians Black (pronouns they/their/them), is a set of public and environmental artworks, involving procedures from the field of architecture, performance, transmedia art and new technologies, in addition to collaborative practices and international solidarity. It is situated in the intersectional resistance to the hierarchical structures imposed by the dominant system, which are not only oppressive in a social sense, but also have a catastrophic impact on the world’s ecology. Operating forms of resistance to hegemonic narratives that represent subjects doomed to subalternity and deterritorializing the modern/colonial project of power, knowledge and being, which are linked to rationality, capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, Christianity, white supremacy, the oppression of social minorities, and the destruction of the environment, the project is constituted by political gestures having one of its objectives to support the Brazilian indigenous struggle for territories, autonomy, difference in identities/subjectivities and against the destruction of forests. It is art that supports the resistance of violated, mutilated, and marginalized bodies, but that stand up and force change. This text starts from seminal research on TransArchitecture and traces some approximations of this art program with decolonial, post-anarchist and deconstructivist criticisms, which bring into play fruitful relationships between art (aesthetics) and politics (ethics), found in the texts by Walter Mignolo, Pedro Paulo Gómez, Jesse Cohn, Neala Schleuning, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, and Georges Didi-Huberman.Art Style, Art & Culture International Magazine is an open-access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, art is considered the significance of socio-cultural, historical, and market influence