Jogos com o sonoro, o visual, o verbal: o acaso e o aleatório como objetos de proposições dedicadas ao ensino de arte

Abstract

Playing with sound, visual, and verbal elements: chance and randomness as objects of propositions dedicated to art teaching is the title of this doctoral research developed within the scope of the Art teaching and learning research line, under the guidance of Professor Mariana de Lima e Muniz. The objective of this research is to develop ways of playing with art elements that will be able to disarm senses and dissolve syntactic, formal, and discursive procedures that are superimposed on the real needs of the processes of creation of art languages, as well as to promote the expansion of methodological conceptions linked to art teaching. Matrizes da linguagem e pensamento: sonora, visual, verbal (Matrices of language and thought: sound, visual, verbal), a semiotic theory developed by Maria Lucia Santaella Braga, guides the present research, what can be verified from the title assigned to it. The main procedural and aesthetic references for the creation of such ways of artistic play comprise the operations of chance inscribed in the poetics of the musician and composer John Cage and of the dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. The development of this research comprised the ongoing training process of teachers from the initial five years of Elementary School at a state school in the city of Alfenas-MG, a process that included the development of game variations based on sound, visual and verbal contents present in the spaces and collections of the Museum of Memory and Heritage and of the Museum of Natural History, both belonging to the museum complex of the Federal University of Alfenas – UNIFAL-MG. The analysis of the drawings, collages and videos resulting from these variations was guided by the theory of the Matrices of language and thought as mentioned above. It is hoped that this research can promote an expansion of interaction between teachers in the early years of elementary school and issues related to memory, public heritage and art languages, with a view to a more effective inclusion of these themes in school curricula.