Dwelling dissent, germinating joy

Abstract

This article presents the artistic work “World Convention of Imaginary Countries” carried out during an artistic residency in the city of Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, at Escola Benvinda, which welcomed part of the students displaced due to the environmental crime that occurred in the city of Brumadinho from the ore dam of mining company Vale do Rio Doce. I worked in this school with the class of the third year of elementary school, in the class of teacher Marcia Costa for approximately one month. The project took place from a series of meetings, in which the fable of a world convention of imaginary countries was sought, a motto to debate already existing conflicts and to stimulate the imagination of other possible futures. Based on these premises, the participating students became responsible for elaborating and representing their respective imaginary countries, as well as their culture, writing, language, flag, costumes, codes, voices, values, desires, among others, placing themselves as protagonists in a process of designing alternative policies for the construction of a new world. Thus, in order to reinforce the social role of the class as an eventful encounter and the valorization of the child as a proposing and creative subject, the work used the fabulation as a mechanism to test negotiation procedures and to stimulate ways of living and interacting. contact from dissent.