Advisor: Otávio Leonídio

Dissertation: Toward a critical counter-operation: destabilizations, fractures and dissolutions of borders in the
art-architecture complex.

Defense date: 30/04/2024

Abstract

In this research, I investigate the relations between what is conventionally referred to as “criti-
cal institution” and artistic and architectural productions, rehearsing a possible alternative to
the hegemonic critical discourse – rooted in the rationality, impersonality and binary of
modern, western and colonial thought. I propose something that revolves around the notion of
“performative criticism”, a “critical counter-operation”, which opposes the idea of “criticism
by judgment”. In this space of experimentation, guided by deconstructivist thinking and radical
queer theory proposes, I launch writing operations that seek to destabilize, fracture and
dissolve the logic of borders, separability and binarism. A series of axioms from the field of
Architecture and Urbanism therefore become the target of this research: thinking|doing, criti-
cism| production, theory|practice, urban|rural, public|private, etc … I ask: what can emerge from
the promiscuous relation between art and architecture criticism and the productions of these
fields when the borderline loses its contours?