Engajar-se artisticamente: o ser humano como ponto de partida da mudança

Abstract

Art needs human engagement to be engaged. It does not exist without the human, but from human existence and engagement. Art by itself, but arm in arm with those who persevere in it and with it can transform the world or not. It does not exist to change, be it nothing or everything; it just exists as it is. These are the actions of the human being, which, when crossed by art and based on it, can transform, change, modify and have the world as an object of change, transformation and not constancy. We are phenomena capable of socially and politically deconstructing what is established and building what will become, because shaking the internal system of what already has life can remodel other paths and provide new horizons. The means do not exist without an end, nor without a beginning. The set of our actions in the world always exist in relation to the possibilities that surround us. Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness notes that we have internal intermediations and that they only exist because of what he calls situation. It refers, according to Sartre, to our facticity in existing and our freedom to be and it is in this sense that Roquentin, a character in Nausea, another work by the philosopher in question, when he finds himself overcome by Nausea, asks the waitress play a song that you like, and thus, rediscover yourself and your humanity through music. To paraphrase Eduardo Lourenço, when he draws a parallel between being in front of our own window and walking down the street: we are what we do and only others know that. I ask: Can art be a space for mobilization for non-institutional political action? I answer: it depends, as it depends on the amazement of those who absorb the art, as well as on what will be done from that thauma. Art can only cross us, but also become a becoming with a purpose: to change the world.