Interação na produção e recepção de obras de arte contemporânea

Abstract

The thesis seeks to identify the social actions present in the reception and production of contemporaty art. According to ethnomethodology, the interaction processes can be classified as both originative and formal, because the phenomenological subject does not perceive itself, it always addresses to someone else. Moreover, social actions and interpretations are guided by methods (implied and expected) shared among agents. Those methods should be investigated in the context of use, the actual circumstances that make them observable and reportable ( accountable ) through operations of visualization and/or concealment, forwardness and/or retention. Ethnomethodology observes the social actions in everyday situations, in which agents make use of the shared knowledge and hope that others do the same thing. It is when one acts without thinking . Works of art are often analyzed by the differences they produce in everyday life, introducing other perspectives to what is usual. We don t deny that carachteristic, but we also understand that art observation belongs to the social world. In everyday life, the agents use action resources to investigate the actual circunstamces, auditors and locations. Therefore, those resources are available to anyone and are taken inside galleries and museums regardless of those institutions, the public and the artists. The actual circumstances of reception (the work of art, the critic s text, the artist s speech, the other visitors actions, etc.) demands of anyone in the observer role procedures similar to those of everyday life. In the interviews with the public and the artists, we tried to identify, through the discourses, which resources and methods are shared with the work, the public, other artists and criticism.