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Iriane Leme, São Paulo State University UNESP, BrazilRegilene Sarzi-Ribeiro, São Paulo State University UNESP, Brazil
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The contemporary art scene, its exhibitions, publications, and academic debates, has growingly engaged with plural histories, aligning with curatorial, research, and activist efforts connected to decoloniality, postcoloniality, intersectionality, pluriversality, feminisms, anti-racism, queer theory, contra-coloniality and also south-centered, Black, Indigenous, anti-ableist, and LGBTQIAPN+ movements. These revisions and critical interventions are intrinsically tied to broader political struggles for diversity and rights, which, since the mid-20th century, have been marked by organized resistance against the colonial matrix (Akotirene, 2023). Within this context, the discipline of Art History has been subject to increasing scrutiny regarding its methodological frameworks and its role in perpetuating hegemonic narratives that reinforce ethno and eurocentrism and also structural oppressions. As Pedrosa (2018) argues, “the discipline of art history, with its deeply European roots, structures, and model, is the most powerful and enduring apparatus of imperialism and colonization.” In response to these challenges, this study explores alternative transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to reconfiguring these narratives, conceptualized here as Arts’ Histories. Drawing on pluriversal and critical interculturality perspectives (Acosta et al., 2022, Ramose, 2011; Walsh, 2019, 2010), this study seeks to move beyond Western epistemologies by proposing simultaneity as a methodological tool. This approach aims to foster the convergence of multiple artistic temporalities and cultural frameworks, challenging the notion of absolute truths imposed by colonial technologies, embracing a diversity of histories coexisting within a shared epistemic space.
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Conference: ECAH2025Stream: Arts - Teaching and Learning the Arts
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Leme I., & Sarzi-Ribeiro R. (2025) Arts’ Histories: Simultaneity as a Methodological Approach ISSN: 2188-1111 – The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 139-147) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1111.2025.14
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