A bioarte do Instituto Oficina Cerâmica Francisco Brennand : um estudo sobre as contribuições para o ensino e aprendizagem nas ciências biológicas

Abstract

Art and Science are fields of knowledge and human production that go hand in hand over time, although they are seen more for their differences than for the possibilities of interactions. Thus, the interdisciplinary relationship between Art and Biology was established as an object of study – configuring the term BioArt, as a factor that promotes biological and artistic knowledge. In this context, the objective was to analyze the contributions of BioArte to the teaching and learning process of Science and Biology at Instituto Oficina Cerâmica Francisco Brennand (IOCFB). To this end, field research was conducted that included two central processes in the construction of the data. One referring to the participation of the Institute's social actors, who underwent interviews; and, the process of capturing photographic images to survey elements of BioArte. Regarding data processing, the interviews were recorded and later transcribed and submitted to Content Analysis from Bardin's perspective. While the photographs were submitted to the analysis of the senses denoted and connoted in the light of Barthes. In possession of the results, it was possible to establish that several elements of BioArte are inherently associated with the IOCFB complex, whether in the territorial and historical aspect and, mainly, in the artistic works displayed in the collection. Nature is a guiding motif of Brennan's art, as well as structuring one of the institution's curatorial axes. In this way, several elements of biology are associated with the complex, whether the representations of forms that allude to the natural world, such as human, animal, vegetable bodies and the metaphors of life that encompass, above all, sexuality and the egg – a key element in art by Francisco Brennand. The IOCFB constitutes a space of wide social, historical and educational value, not limited to the typical knowledge of the artistic environment, but being a fertile field for other areas. In this way, BioArte is essentially imbricated in Brennand's legacy and constitutes an element susceptible to the teaching and learning of biological science contents. Therefore, it is expected, from this study, to foster discussions about scientific education in Non-Formal Teaching and Learning Spaces that are not essentially of the scientific scope.