Arte, Resistência e Educação: cartografias das ações do movimento ELAS (Escola Livre de Artes Subversiva) - movimento de arte ativista que atua na cidade de Fortaleza

Abstract

This research study presents the actions of the activist artistic movement ELAS (Free School of subversive art) in order to reflect about the way in which the process of art, resistance and education takes place today through artists, artistic collectives and movements. It is through cartography that we establish a link between the art in progress, with its resistance to the traditional research methodologies, and the elaboration of artistic practices that are limited by the State and by private companies, that use their power to influence the subject matter and other demands upon artistic experimentation. The following questions are discussed during the entire project: the current relation between art, institutions and the market, how to conceive the resistance to power through the arts, the construction of new ways of existence departing from the creation process, the reinvention of Education, of the critical view of societies of control ( concept introduced by Deleuze), among others. In almost a year of happenings with ELAS, many ideas and problems were reflected upon and a huge amount of art was made, with the intent of making guerrilla, of creating worlds and composing lives, with artistic practices that aim to awaken, expropriating the educational system, in an ethical and social concern with the world that becomes present. And in a certain eroticism of politicalinvolvement, the art produced in collectives ( there was an explosion of these collectives in Brazil during the 90’s) like ELAS, with inspirations originating since the 30’s, has made us look for what can be seen as free, in relations within contemporary society, looking at the way we take care of ourselves through an existence esthetic, denominated by Foucault, and that can also be seen in Hakim Bey’s work in Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ), in the creation of myth, in psychic guerrillas, in actions of theft like the ones of the collective Yomango, in poetic terrorisms; all of these practices that question the power relations, and creative, subversive, new and impacting ways of doing politics and living your own life.