Arte na cidade: sujeitos e narrativas em Salvador

Abstract

The thesis proposes to think about the contemporary production of some authors who work in the city of Salvador and who tension the space of the city and the artistic field as they aesthe-tically and politically occupy the urban space, also expanding and tensioning the margins of literature (GARRAMUÑO, 2014, p. 36). In the act of “going for a ride”, young taggers go out to enjoy the city that they know in detail in order to leave their marks on the walls, surfa-ces and tops of buildings (CALDEIRA, 2014). Wouldn't some of our contemporary artists and writers be doing the same within this logic of an occupation that involves the risk and the desire to construct narratives? In this sense, the thesis also proposes and tries to put into prac-tice a way of repowering theories and definitions and focuses on productions that do not fit comfortably into literature and/or aesthetics. To this end, we take for discussion works such as O livro de água, as well as other interventions by Karina Rabinovitz; Território Movediços e Paisagens Ensolaradas, the narratives of Davi Nunes, Fábio Mandingo and the photographic productions of Helen Salomão and Marcelo Terça-Nada, as well as the poetic production of Alex Simões. Thus, we think about how these productions imbricate themselves with the city, which is also a heterogeneous space, based on artistic practices (poems and narratives, perfor-mances, plays and audiovisual productions) that emerge as resistance in the urban space and also provoke a questioning of the very understanding of literature.