Processos criativos colaborativos no Espaço Coringa: da criação de um grupo à criação em grupo

Abstract

The object of research of this work is comprised of collaborative creative processes developed by the group denominated Espaço Coringa, an art collective that worked for 11 years, from 1998 to 2009. Based on the group s documents and works, this research aims at observing the mechanisms that led to the formation of the group, understanding its ways of acting based on generalizations of its organizational methods, capturing the ways in which the group related to processes of capital valuation and the contemporary art system, systemizing the type of works produced, and which relationships were created with new media in the context of a collaborative production. In this research we seek ways to understand the collaborative creation processes and the very formation of this collective as part of a communicative process, with internal coherence and intentionality, in order to realize a poetic project. We pay special attention to the relationships between individuals, between them and collective processes as a whole, in order to identify which vectors condition these relationships. In our survey we realized that, from specific points of view, the group s collaborative creations offered possibilities of emancipation and increased awareness of the individuals involved, proposing concrete experiences of new forms of sociability. At times, from different theoretical points of view, these same actions appear as ways to undertake the collective work through the contemporary art system. Moreover, we establish here some possibilities of understanding the processes that produce works through collaboration. The methodology adopted consisted of bibliographic surveys, theoretical and epistemological reflections on the object of study, field surveys based on the observation and reading of the works and documents about the processes of that collective. The theoretical framework includes the process criticism of Cecília Almeida Salles, Michel Maffesoli s concept of tribes, Zygmunt Bauman and his discussion on community, Boaventura de Souza Santos and his reflections on social emancipation, Vilém Flusser s concepts of communication, speech, and dialog, Nicolas Bourriaud s relational aesthetics, Hakim Bey s concept of Autonomous Temporary Zone, and Anne Cauquelin and her reflections on the art system. Also, we make use of Julio Plaza s concept of intersemiotic translation, Edgar Morin and his thoughts on interactions, effervescence, and his reflections on culture and complexity, as well as the relationships between art, science, and cognition raised by Jorge Vieira de Albuquerque