O processo de artificação em Juazeiro do Norte - análise do Centro Cultural Mestre Noza

Abstract

This research’s main goal is to show a specific craftsman group’s situation of Juazeiro do Norte, a transition situation, a process of values, rationales, attitudes and practices transformation of the members of Centro Cultural Mestre Noza (CCMN), one of the most representative places for the Ceará Cariri’s artistic practice, which is placed on Juazeiro do Norte. This transformation takes place with some member’s distinctive posture. They feel like artists, not as craftsmen, they see their work as art, not as handicraft, as they had crossed an imaginary border to follow the social change. A change of a social coercion and restriction and, therefore, a value hierarchy and a global organization modification. Thereunto, different ways of data collection were used, mixing the scientific research’s qualitative and quantitative nature, although qualitative methodology was preponderantly used. The analysis of this research is composed with documents, interviews, autobiographies and photos. The data is watched through different sociological theoretical contributions. The results demonstrate how social and historical features and an individual external constraints are relevant on the process of artistic production. It shows, as well, the individual’s analyzed capacity of self regulation, that sometimes follow the social rules, and sometimes don’t, a mixture of adequacy and transgression. It is possible to see that, between the external coercions and self regulation of the analyzed individuals, there is a singular artification process. It can be concluded that this process tends to conciliate world visions, as in the case studied between art and handicraft, a typical fact of Centro Cultural Mestre Noza, that, many times, translates and represents the ethos of Juazeiro do Norte social relations.