Nomadismos urbanos: caminhadas, imagens e montagens

Abstract

This dissertation is a synthesis of theoretical studies, practical experiences of research, cataloging and production of photographic images and composition of “montages”. The “montage” of images is understood as a methodology, way of thinking or way of knowing, which goes back to the historical, philosophical and urban work of Walter Benjamin, especially the book Passages, in which the fragment and composition of textual montages are affirmed to the detriment of notions such as “understanding” or “interpretation”. Based on the creation of experimental modes of research in the city, this dissertation discusses methodological and epistemological aspects of working with images, emphasizing the need to review the form of the “scientific text”. Returning to a set of visual narratives and textual fragments, the author focuses on urban experiences in which walks, routes, parties or detours by artists or ordinary citizens, produced in different historical times, are associated with subjective states of numbness or drunkenness. . The images and narrators presented experience their bodies and the city in different ways through the ingestion of psychoactive substances such as alcohol, hashish, amphetamines or crack. It seeks to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue between the fields of Visual Anthropology, Urbanism and Art, affirming critical thinking and practice in relation to the control regimes of urban space, cities and the forms of subjection of their inhabitants.