Vingar
Vingar1
verb. [ Português / Brasil ]
An act of coming to live. A term used to describe the moment when a new plant will be able to sustain itself. An enactment/performance of existence. The will to thrive in a context of adversities. A possibility characterized by uncertainty. A sense of existence as flourishment. A movement that requires care, to thrive. An act of refusal. A term that is used to refer to the possibility of a newborn thriving into a longer existence into childhood. The product of something between selfpreservation and being nurtured. The act of taking vengeance. Vingar, as a traditional term/saying, refers to both people and plants, humans and non-humans. It is at the same time the act to take vengeance on something, and the uncontrolled desire to exist. Institutionally, vingar takes its importance as it takes our gaze to the sustainment of obstacles and adversities (both natural and artificial) that make the possibility of coming to exist harder. What if we look at institutions as places to facilitate the coming to be of something that is already happening, to nurture it, rather than places of guidance and development?
1 An outcome of a collaboration with Coletiva Gira and with the work of the Brazilian writer, Conceição Evaristo. Hear more about it at Mukiá Podcast, a project done with Undercommons Collective.
Bio
Aquiles Coelho Silva
(Rio de Janeiro-São Paulo, Brasil)
Independent researcher and artist Research Assistant of Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva (NYU)
Born and raised in the outskirts of São Paulo, Aquiles Coelhos Silva is a researcher, writer, and artist. Currently, he is a scholar-in-residence at CRACS CoLab at NYU (with Coletiva GIRA). Author of the book Vila Missionária: constituição e desenvolvimento da periferia em São Paulo (2019) (Missionary Village: constitution and development of the periphery in São Paulo), awarded by the Municipal Historical Archive of São Paulo, and the poetry book Notas sobre o cultivo (2023) (Notes on cultivation). His practice explores themes such as urban development, poetry, memory, music, and the relationship between land, space, and race. Aquiles has collaborated with research and art institutions such as the 35th São Paulo Art Biennial, Instituto Pólis (BR), SESC (BR), Cultural Center São Paulo (BR), many of which as a member of Coletiva GIRA and the História da Disputa project. He holds a degree in Economics from Unicamp (2017), a master's degree in Urban Planning from IPPUR/UFRJ (2024), and since 2022 has been working as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva.
Institution(ing)s is a medium-scale collaboration project co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.