Gélido Sertão, a fronteira como interstício

Abstract

This research establishes a connection between the sertão , an Brazilian backwood, and the Japanese northeast, constituting temporal and spatial relations aligned when crossing the concept of Ma (between). The text builds on the experience of the historian Aby Warburg, proposing an understanding of time as a spiral. To that end, the Japanese dance Butoh and the technique of restoration of broken ceramics, Kintsugi, are presented as spiral time practices, that propose the transposition of cultural boundaries and the valorization of the ruins as potential for transformation. From the word Shizen the limits between being-human and nature are discussed, in order to explore also the transposition of these symbolic limits. The architecture is analyzed from the works of Kengo Kuma and Gordon Matta Clark, creating relationships between the construction of space and the subjective body. The text draws a path in search of understanding the boundaries (which separate times, elements and spaces) as an interval that connects opposites.