A Performative Urban Intervention: displacements of a buffoon

Authors

  • Andre Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira Fundação de Apoio à Escola Técnica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - FAETEC/RJ

Keywords:

Buffoonery, Urban Intervention, Performativity, City, Anti-tourism

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the Bassibus action, created and performed by the contemporary buffoon Leo Bassi, who travels through themes and problems that affect the place of the city and its inhabitants. An action that parodies the touristic activity, Bassibus promotes with its participants a dynamics of occupation of the city and questioning about the forces that affect it. It is concluded that this Bassi’s praxis creates an artistic phenomenon that touches the political as an intersubjective process of reconfiguration of the perceptible and the thinkable, carrying a call for confrontation and resistance, both to the artist and to the spectator/participant, in the face of capture devices and expropriation of desire.

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Author Biography

Andre Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira, Fundação de Apoio à Escola Técnica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - FAETEC/RJ

Performer, professor e pesquisador. Doutor (bolsista CNPq) e mestre (bolsista CAPES) em artes cênicas pelo PPGAC/UNIRIO. Desde 2011 é professor de artes visuais da Fundação de Apoio à Escola Técnica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - FAETEC/RJ.

Published

2022-09-27

How to Cite

Ferreira, A. L. R. (2022). A Performative Urban Intervention: displacements of a buffoon. Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies, 9(2), 1–22. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/85412

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Section

Contemporary topics

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