Between sound topographies and acts of permanence:

gesture, listening, and memory as living archives in the arts

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33871/21750769.2026.22.1.11697

Keywords:

Gesture, Listening, Memory, Living archive, Contemporary art

Abstract

This text starts from an understanding of listening as an ethical practice of attention and permanence, analyzing how memory, body, and matter are articulated within different temporal regimes in contemporary art. The article examines practices that mobilize gesture as an operator of remembrance, constructed between action, matter, and time, through a theoretically grounded essayistic approach. It draws on references from aesthetics, performance theory, and studies of the sensible to discuss gesture not as an isolated event, but as a procedure that organizes modes of experience and reading. By contrasting performative memory and material memory, the article proposes the concept of the living archive as a situated practice capable of sustaining sensory relations that remain active in the present. It concludes that art produces knowledge not only through representation, but through the reorganization of conditions of attention, perception, and permanence in space

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Author Biography

Jovani Dala , Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Artista visual e doutoranda em Artes pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES). Mestre em Artes pela UFES, é Bacharel em Artes Plásticas e Licenciada em Artes, com especializações nas áreas de educação, patrimônio e paisagem. Sua pesquisa investiga gesto, escuta, paisagem sonora, memória, processos de criação e territorialidade nas artes contemporâneas. Editora executiva da Todas as Artes – Revista Luso-Brasileira de Artes e Cultura e integra grupos de pesquisa e coletivos artísticos voltados às relações entre arte, cultura, paisagem e território.

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Published

2026-07-03

How to Cite

Dala Bernardina, J. (2026). Between sound topographies and acts of permanence: : gesture, listening, and memory as living archives in the arts. O Mosaico, 22(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.33871/21750769.2026.22.1.11697

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 1 (2026): Revista O Mosaico No. 30

Section

Dossiê - Bloco III: Corpo como arquivo e campo sensível (memória, escuta, gesto)

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