Cemflores: poéticas políticas em Belo Horizonte nos anos oitenta

Abstract

Through the research Cemflores: political poetics in Belo Horizonte in the eighties, we aimed to recover the Cemflores group's path, based on the testimonies of its members and the critical-affective contact with the poet Marcelo Dolabela's archive, who kept the remains of that memory for more than forty years. Formed by, as they called themselves, “workers in art”, Cemflores emerged within the Student Movement and they acted in the counterculture scenario in Belo Horizonte, in the 1980s, a period characterized by the process of Brazil's redemocratization. The cemfloristas sought to rethink the praxis of the left-wing tendencies, through the performance of poetic actions. They published magazines and dozens of booklets made in mimeograph, distributed poetry in strikes and acts for Amnesty, held recitals, mail art exhibitions and sound experiences that culminated in the creation of the post-punk style bands Sexo Explícito, Divergência Socialista and Último Número.