Abstract

REIS, Alice Vignoli  and  ALVIM, Mônica Botelho. Small Experimental Exercises in Freedom: Articulations between Art, Clinic and Politics. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.spe, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21iesp1.e9459.

The present work presents a theoretical articulation with an interdisciplinary framework, which brings the art, clinic, and political fields into dialogue. Such articulation was developed during the action research with young people in Rio de Janeiro slums whose central theme was the question of the possibilities of reinventing a strongly fragmented and stratified urban space demarcated by socio-spatial segregation. The observation that the urban fragmentation characteristic of big cities in the context of capitalism produces different ways of life and forms of subjectivation, establishing boundaries of coexistence and affecting the establishment of alterity relationships, led us to think about the possibilities of sensitive reconfiguration of the ordinary world. In this sense, our theoretical-practical explorations took place in this interdisciplinary articulation around the themes of the body, sensitive and intercorporeal experience, otherness, and creation as an invention and reinvention of life, pointing to the intertwining of its ethical, aesthetic, and politics. The article presents, in the foreground, the theoretical framework of the research discussing a phenomenological perspective of subjectivity as corporeity, anchored in the thought of Merleau-Ponty, as well as the clinical work inspired by this perspective in its interfaces with the field of art and its character of political action. From a brief look at the experience with young people in this action research, it is concluded that the dialogue between psychology and art has the power to activate the playful dimension, providing the creation of a common language, allowing the creating of clinical-artistic devices that enable the recreation of the self and the relations of alterity in the experience of urban space, updating possibilities for sensitive reconfiguration. The theoretical body of ideas, inseparable from a practical action of researching with young people, made it possible to create a playful research and intervention methodology in the urban space.

Keywords : ethics; aesthetics; clinic; politics; phenomenology.

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