A insistência do resto

Abstract

This paper reflects on the performativity of the matter when it no longer has a function within productive cylces. The condition of waste makes the matter a hindrance to capital, and hence it is either put far away or reinserted within the productive cycle as a developmentist promise of making environmentally healthier the economic system. While reckoning with Turvações Estratigráficas, installation by Yuri Firmeza exhibited at MAR – Rio Art Museum, I wonder what happens when the matter insists in becoming waste. That sheer insistance is also a motto to think of notions such as dispersive spaces, contact zones, geographic narratives of things, and the refuse in the reurbanization process of Rio de Janeiro’s dock area aiming at the Olympic games period.