Agito Cultural e arte de enrolar com responsabilidade: memória e etnografia na Baixada Fluminense

Abstract

This paper consists on the retrospective ethnography of Grupo Agito Cultural by establishing relations between the actors and the group, by retrieving representations and reports of the project and also by identifying common and distinct traces in the speech of the members of the group, cultural agents, members of social movements, politicians, partners and the public that attend to these interventions. The main goal to be achieved through this paper is to build a panel with all the representations, whether they are shared by the members of the group or diverge between them, their meaning and values, whether they are common to the group or divergent from the action of the group and from their interactions with their partners and their public. Agito Cultural, the theater company from Nova Iguaçu/RJ performed from 1991 to 1997 and established the public space, such as steets and squares, as their performing place. Agito Cultural has built a partnership with several social movements through their commissioned theater concept. This work collaborates to the reflection on the art contributions as an instrument of critic and social transformation in the Baixada Fluminense, the peripheral region where four million people live now a days. From the theoretical point of view it is possible to conceive yet another reflection: the social sense of the memory and its heuristic possibilities.