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<p>The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the discourses expressed between Jaider Esbell’s Brazilian artistic sculptures and the monuments of the urban space. Based on J. Lotman’s notion of semiotic boundary space of culture, the analysis focuses on the controversial discursive relationships, such as intelligibility and unintelligibility; translation and untranslatability, and so on, observed from the historical tensioning of cultural languages. This analytical path leads us to intercultural relationships in which artistic languages in semiotic boundary spaces manifest the Aesthesis condition that has given the theoretical foundations for the Decolonial studies and the arising of a new episteme in the understanding of intercultural relationships. Thus, the semiotic concept of boundary space allows us to analyse various discursive relationships in historical-political contexts in the contemporary debate.</p>
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The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the discourses expressed between Jaider Esbell’s Brazilian artistic sculptures and the monuments of the urban space. Based on J. Lotman’s notion of semiotic boundary space of culture, the analysis focuses on the controversial discursive relationships, such as intelligibility and unintelligibility; translation and untranslatability, and so on, observed from the historical tensioning of cultural languages. This analytical path leads us to intercultural relationships in which artistic languages in semiotic boundary spaces manifest the Aesthesis condition that has given the theoretical foundations for the Decolonial studies and the arising of a new episteme in the understanding of intercultural relationships. Thus, the semiotic concept of boundary space allows us to analyse various discursive relationships in historical-political contexts in the contemporary debate.

Semiotic Boundary Spaces: An Exercise in Decolonial Aesthesis

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The main purpose of this essay is the analysis of the discourses expressed between Jaider Esbell’s Brazilian artistic sculptures and the monuments of the urban...

Semiotic Boundary Spaces: An Exercise in Decolonial Aesthesis

Published Online: Oct 02, 2022

Page range: 77 - 87

Received: Feb 01, 2022

Accepted: May 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0018

Keywords
Semiotic boundary space, Discursive relationships, Modelling semiotic systems, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Decolonial Aesthesis

© 2022 Irene Machado, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Semiotic Boundary Spaces: An Exercise in Decolonial Aesthesis

Published Online: Oct 02, 2022

Page range: 77 - 87

Received: Feb 01, 2022

Accepted: May 01, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2022-0018

KeywordsSemiotic boundary space, Discursive relationships, Modelling semiotic systems, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Decolonial Aesthesis

© 2022 Irene Machado, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Semiotic boundary space, Discursive relationships, Modelling semiotic systems, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Decolonial Aesthesis