Lugar e convívio como prática espacial e tessitura cênica: as performances urbanas do Coletivo Contraponto (MG)

Abstract

This thesis deals with the overlapping of the place and coexistence, taken as spatial practices, in that they participate in the engendering of the scenic texture, with urban performances of the Coletivo Contraponto MG as object of study. Two fields were then investigated in imbricated form while feeding each other: the theoretical practice and the artistic practice. The first focuses on four main themes. We start by drawing a possible genealogy of artistic practices that are done as spatial practices, focusing on site-specific art. Then we try to outline the tensioning factors of site-specific scenes in which place and coexistence, of any scenes material condition, become scenic texture. The third deals with thecontingent factors of coexistence and the status of the viewer / participant. Finally, we look at the issue of spatiality, unfold in the discussion of the spaces and the actions like inscriptions in urban and coexistence as spatial practice. In the segment relative to the artistic practice, wefocus on a study in the way a performance infiltrates the city tissues, in order to raise a scene made from interstices. By establishing nomads and an open territoriality, we work with place and coexistence, using strategies of approximations and negotiations with urban textures andappearances. As compositional elements we use landscape formation, situations and duration sharing. The place shows with physical and contextual features, while the interaction is seen in practices of living, of watching/participating and of practice constituted by its own performance.