Corpos em trânsito sobre trilhos: experiências estéticas no fluxo da cidade e seus atravessamentos

Abstract

This master's dissertation situates the body in its political and social dimension from the perspective of art. Based on a writing experience (EVARISTO, 2007, 2017, 2019), I propose to investigate and promote reflections that dialogue with thoughts, experiences and confrontations, with the purpose of understanding how these connections can access subjectivities through aesthetic experiences whose production is not detached from historical, political, territorial and affective processes. To this end, I will analyze the relationship between body, city and art in their creative flows and processes through the train artist, intertwining him with the figure of the train vendor. From a perspective in which these subjects are also passengers, I will discuss notions as life trajectory, time experienced in their journeys, territorial disputes and negotiations of the market and/or artistic product. I resort to the notions of body and experiments of being in the world worked by Merleau-Ponty as formative of repertoires of the aesthetic experience itself. In this context, I adopt the notion of aesthetics as defended by Augusto Boal (2009), since I understand art-life-politics as interdependent. The purpose is to weave the semantic and philosophical flow between which is within the poetical and the political of art through what the author defines as the way in which arts can be perceived and thought of not only as arts, but as forms of inscribing the sense of community. This is about a perspective that demands a walk through the city in which “everyday narrative or literary stories are our public transportation” (CERTEAU, 1994, p. 200). The work is affiliated with the Art, Subject, and City Research Line of the Graduate Program in Arts at the State University of Rio de Janeiro