Architecture or revolution? A theatrical research project

• Grant number: 16/08240-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Theatre
• Principal Investigator: Felisberto Sabino da Costa
• Grantee: Vicente Antunes Ramos
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work intends to undertake a theatrical research on violence in the city of São Paulo. By violence means here more than crime, death and traffic-accidents. The research aims to see the violence behind the way it has been, and continues to be, the occupation of land in São Paulo, and so it will look in architecture a starting point: it is working with architectural concepts that aims to fomenter a theatrical research. Thus, part of a specific language - the architecture - to reach another - the theater. As a result it is proposed to present a dramaturgical text written in a collaborative process. It is the aim of this research to investigate this text - thematically and formally - as well as this writing process. (AU)