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The Politics of Silence: art and education at Política do Impossível collective’s poetic

Authors :
Pedro Caetano Eboli Nogueira
Source :
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 2022.

Abstract

The paper aims to think the interweavings between art, politics and education within the action titled Traga Sua Luz, carried out in 2008 by Política do Impossível collective. Intended to question the process of gentrification in Luz neighborhood - located at São Paulo city center -, it consisted of a silent and collective performance in which candles and small lamps were carried and deposited on lands expropriated by the then mayor. Through the theoretical contributions of Walter Benjamin, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roland Barthes and Jacques Rancière, this paper elucidates how the suspension of the merely communicative function of language permeates art, education and a politics of silence.

Details

Language :
English, Spanish; Castilian, French, Portuguese
ISSN :
22372660
Volume :
10
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.fcc7a465536e4f3480775c031bc770fe
Document Type :
article