Disputed visualities

discussions on the sensitive formation of the person with visual impairment

Abstract

This article proposes to discuss dialogically about the possibilities and challenges in the teaching-learning processes in the field of Art/Education for the formation of the sensitive, in the intersections with the studies of Visual Culture. In this sense, we opted for literature review and art criticism, encompassing theoretical-philosophical formulations especially dedicated to analysis – processes of production, mediation, fruition and interpretation – situated in/in transit with the Visual Arts. Indeed, our dialogues embrace conceptions that map the historical-social construction of visuality, moving away from limitations imposed on the universe of images – their knowledge, actions and affections – in the context of the education of people with visual impairments. Equally instigated by the power of activities that embody aesthetic experiences through visual poetics, we use Marxian studies centered on the fetishism of merchandise and spectacle in order to reflect – and/or at least fray –the hegemonic modes occupied by images in society contemporary capitalist in its contradictions and disputes. With these brief discussions, we consider, in a preliminary way, that in the aesthetic regime of the Arts, the image does not present itself as a double or a translation – as in the case of audio description –, but rather as an organization to be aesthetically established with the phrase-function and the image-function.