‘O sonho não tem relevo’: sobre desobediência, arte impressa e publicação independente contemporâneas

Abstract

The publication of a text or an image many times goes a distance from the institutiona- lized editorial and artistical production. In some contexts the act of publication and the printed object walk in fissures and little convencional ways. Certain publications propose a (re)look to ways of collective production and of a resumption of desire. This thesis has the objective to analyze the exercise of the independent publication as desobedience to the prevailing standards and, for that, analyzes the following aspects: the existence of various narratives and author- ships, the epistemic deviation, the experimentation of languages and the resistance to an acce- lerated production time.The fieldwork consists mainly in the following of publishers and event organizers situated, mainly, in Rio de Janeiro. The proposal of Bruno Latour´s actor-network (2012) guided the participative observation fairs and other events, as well as the realization of interviews and visits to work places. To establish relations between contemporary and other times´s publications and prints, the research with historical arquives proved to be fundamental. The studies and reflections of Fréderic Gros about (des)obedience gestures (2018) and forms to acknowledge deviation, as well as rules and convention, specially in the art world, by Howard Becker (2010), guided the ways of this research. Through the production, circulation, materiali- ty and sharing present in the elaboration of the studied prints, it´s shown distinct ways to relate from those further seen in the ocidental modern society. The power of the analyzed prints rest in the capacity of resistance to the excluding narratives, to the positiveness and smoothness of the relations, the absence of self-care, the acceleration of time; and the establishment of non relacional places.