Name: Felipe Xavier

Position/Professional Category: PhD Candidate (FCT/EUTOPIA scholarship)

Research project title: Precarious Forms: A Study on the Aesthetics of Instability and Insecurity in Contemporary Art (1989-2019)

Supervisor: Margarida Brito Alves (IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) Advisors: Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans, Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel); Sonja Lavaert, History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy, and Ethics (VUB)

Thematic areas: Contemporary Art; Aesthetics; Critical Theory; Precarity

Position within IHA: RG Member [Contemporary Art Studies]

Contact: fxmlima@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 0816-C42D-47CD

ORCiD: 0009-0009-2335-514X

Biography

Felipe Xavier is a researcher and visual artist. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. through a cotutelle between the Art Studies and Archaeology program at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Art Studies – Art and Mediation program at NOVA University Lisbon.

Xavier is affiliated with and conducts research at the Histories of Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture (VISU) group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Institute of Art History (IHA) at NOVA FCSH. He holds a master’s degree in Multimedia/Culture and Art from the University of Porto and a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication/Audiovisual from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

His research focuses on the intersection of contemporary art, aesthetics, and politics. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis, “Precarious Forms: A Study on the Aesthetics of Instability and Insecurity in Contemporary Art (1989–2019)”, supported by the EUTOPIA scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group