Balan(s)eio: ephemeral installation with phenomenological character in São João Del Rei

Abstract

This paper presumes a critique of the relationships established in urban spaces with the growing progression of information technologies and contemporary society 's cultures Contextualizes the emergence of the work and the authors and theories that permeated its creation, and then describes the experiment, based on this criticism, by the students of the group Balan(s)eio. The experiment itself consists of exposing a swing in several bridges mapped in the city of São João del-Rei, allowing to observe and analyze the relationship between subject and object and space-time in the places where the object was inserted and from a phenomenological analysis, recreating these meanings. As a conclusion, the experiment and the work suggest an in-depth revision of the relations we establish with everyday places and through an appeal to the poetics of space, relating it to the experience and the knowledge of the site and its surroundings. This paper integrates the Carpet section of the 14th issue of the V!RUS journal which theme is Weaving the City. It prioritizes the actors in the urban scene through reflections crossing the philosophical knowledge by a poetic approach, raising questions about the complexity of the urban space and the relationships involved in it. It lays on a conceptual and experimental work that seeks recurrence in the phenomenology and the senses we attribute to objects and places.