“Ouvir as imagens e ver os sons”: digressões sobre cosmoestéticas

Abstract

This article stems from a critical reflection on Aesthetics through feminist and decolonial perspectives, highlighting Paula Fleisner’s concept of cosmoaesthetics and Monique Roelofs’ theoretical contributions. Roelofs proposes a revision of modern Aesthetics that takes into account relational, racial, and gendered dimensions, while Fleisner develops cosmoaesthetics as an articulation of relational materialities with artistic practices and diverse cosmologies. I aim to enter this debate by developing the idea of a “sound image” inspired by experiences with images, sounds, and Indigenous cosmologies. In these contexts, sound is not secondary to image but forms with it a perceptual threshold of indissociability. In the article, I problematize the term “audiovisual” and revisit the transformation of sensibility through technology, emphasizing that although the technical reproduction of sound has altered our ways of listening, the concept of the “sound image” proposed here goes beyond technological media. This proposal engages with authors such as Tim Ingold, by articulating hearing, vision, and movement in the perception of the world. Thus, the text advocates for a sensitive and philosophical mode of listening that brings together aesthetics, anthropology, and alternative modes of existence, specially those rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems and feminist epistemologies.