The ghosts were already sad: a dialogue between Art and Visual Anthropology on life in the face of catastrophe

Abstract

The text proposes, in its first part, a reflective scenario concerning the problem of human catastrophe in the anthropocene logic. The narrative steps run through the territory of the body and the relationships between presence and absence, between human and non-human, between belonging and displacement. This route inspired the territory for the visual essay of the second part, in which we presented four photographs that made up the visual essay called “Desvanecer”, as well as the narrative of the experience of carrying it out. The Bunker Collective presents, through this essay, the way in which it has reflected on current issues, using the bodies of artists placed in relation to one another, and in this case the relationship is overflowing.