Barcos possíveis: a travessia das imagens

Abstract

One day, walking by the center of the city Recife, I received a payroll loan advertisement from a small bank. Without any intention that wasn't to throw away that paper, I started to fold it into a boat. A little paper boat, the only folding I learned in my childhood. Days later, I found the boat in my bag and realized it had a name in its hull, "consigned". From this chance, in 2018, the series Barcos Possíveis 1 starts, an extensive fleet of little paper boats with pamphlets collected specifically at Conde da Boa Vista Avenue, famous commercial and business route in the city. An investigative path is inaugurated, the Boats poetics, that proposes - the purpose of every boat - crossings. Starting from the images - representative, imperative and pedagogical - that compose the urban visuality from a permeation regime, the Boats act like gaze displacement artifacts towards the surface of the city, constituting some kind of archive and thus enabling passive moments of learning. But the crossings, in the Boats poetics, seek to access, beyond the margins of possibility and impossibility, a Third Margin – as Guimarães Rosa proposes – or a heterotopia - as appointed by Foucault. The paper folding is, in this way, a metaphor for the folding of reality itself and everything in it that is given to us as possible. The reverberations of the Boats and the foldings led to developments that are welcomed in the creation process, understood as a chance to raise issues that awaited the ideal climate conditions. That is the case with the performance Oficina Rápida e Gratuita de Como Fazer? Barcos de Papel 2 , developed in 2019, seeking expanded meanings for education through a Pedagogy of Drift, thus exposing issues inherent to the pedagogical projects of participatory art. This text works as a narrative and construction of crossings that result from an a/r/tograpic investigation, making constitutive aspects of the work resound in the writing.