Simpósios de escultura: processos de interação e produção escultórica na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate Symposiums of sculpture and their provocations in the contemporary art field from an autobiographical narrative. Given that such Sculpture Symposiums gather sculptors in artistic residency during a certain period around the production and public sculptures discussion, and that such action also develops in public spaces, the goal is to analyze how these events constitute themselves as production spaces and artistic training, considering, from the author of the narrative, its potential reverberations in contemporary art scene. This research is motivated in the author experience itself and her inclusion in the Sculpture Symposia circuit. From the experienced meetings; perceptions and unique questions that emerged in this work seek to establish reflections that relate to the spaces caused by these events. Rescuing the experience as a participating artist and as an artist proponent of these Symposia, the text aims to reflect, between images and fragments of memory and the diary of the author; as such events are configured in contemporary society: what aspects are listed as regards the changes that cause the subject involved and the locations where they are performed. Therefore, the theoretical and methodological framework used is constructed from the autobiographical narrative perspective proposed by Hernandez and Rifá (2011). Concerning the Sculpture Symposia were taken as references Bulhões and her various writings that deal reflections on such events, from her experience and Abreu (2006) constituting historical record on them. The writings of the sculptor Francisco Gazitua are highlighted in respect of Symposia in Latin America in the same way, from the subjective perspective. With regard to contemporary art practice seek in Basbaum (2013) skills to think the action of the artist as contemporary circuit agent.