[Roberto Alencar: the body in transit]
This writing investigates the paths of the artistic composition of the artist of the body-theater, dance, and performance – Roberto Alencar, a Brazilian who was born and lives in the city of São Paulo, who has as an essential characteristic of his work the transit between creation processes and artistic languages.
Alencar is a member of the urban intervention collective GRUA – Gentleman De Rua, directed by Jorge Garcia, Osmar Zampieri, and Willy Helm. He conceived and directed the shows: Um Porco Sentado (14th English Culture Festival), Zoopraxiscópio (18th English Culture Festival) and Alfaiataria de Gestos. Among the professionals with whom he worked in the dance / theater area are: Sandro Borelli, José Possi Neto, Ana Teixeira, Renata Melo, Luciana Brites, Vanessa Macedo, Angela Nolf, Denise Namura, Elisa Ohtake, and Lúcia Romano. As an actor, he worked with important directors of Brazilian cinema and theater: José Celso Martinez Corrêa, Débora Dubois, Marco Antônio Rodrigues, Zeca Bittencourt, Mauricio Paroni de Castro, Hector Babenco, Sergio Rezende, and Helena Ignez, among others.
The study of the movement between languages introduced in the creative process is essential to think critically about contemporary communicational systems and networks, reflecting on the construction of the various communicative objects that act in hybridization, revealing different modes of action and creative tessitures. Considering the paths that indicate the tendency, in some proposals, the porosity between artistic practices and languages, is a way to reveal communicative and creative aspects of the body in contemporaneity. The profusion of proposals and thoughts elaborated about the place and meanings of the body and the construction of image, currently, raise issues that take a central point in our society. Thus, the links between body and communication, body and media, body and creation, body and art, among others, are what move this investigation on the creative processes of artists of the body.
In this book, we analyse Alencar’s sketchbooks and process documents, archives filled with information/memories/experiences that register and reflect on the poetic and practical issues of the artist’s work interacting with others and with the world. For this research, this vast material was presented as a profusion of notes, texts, drawings, sketches, and images that little by little, with the artist’s intervention and assistance, were organized and revealed traces of a powerful and vertiginous artistic process.
Year: 2022
Support: Print / PDF
ISBN: 978-989-9023-06-2 (PDF)
Pages: 244
Dimensions: 215.9 × 279.4 mm
Coordination: Mirian Nogueira Tavares and Cecilia Almeida Salles
Edition: Ana Isabel Soares, Patrícia Dourado, Paula Martinelli and Wagner de Miranda
Esta publicação também está disponível em: Portuguese (Portugal)