A QUESTÃO DO ESPAÇO E A ENUNCIAÇÃO DO SUJEITO NO TRABALHO DE DANA AWARTANI / The issue of space and the enunciation of the subject in the work of Dana Awartani

Resumo

O presente artigo analisa a questão do processo colonial e de subalternização problematizado na obra “I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I’d forgotten you. I was dreaming”, da artista saudita Dana Awartani. Misto de site specific e registro fílmico de performance, o trabalho dialoga com a insurgência de novos sujeitos na produção de arte contemporânea, denominados por Gayatri C. Spivak de “sujeitos subalternos”, e com as mudanças ocorridas entre as décadas de 1960 e 1990 em torno do conceito de site specific, como teorizado pela crítica de arte  Miow Kwon.

Palavras-chave: Site-specific; Performance; Sujeito; Subalternidade.

Abstract

This paper analyzes the issue of space and the colonized subject in the work “I went away and forgot you. A while ago I remembered. I remembered I’d forgotten you. I was dreaming”, by saudi artist Dana Awartani. Mixed with site specific art and filmic performance record, the work dialogues with the insurgency of new subjects in the production of contemporary art in contexts against hegemonic and critical subalternity, as well as with the changes that occurred from the 1960s to the present day in around the concept of space specificity.

Keywords: Site specific art; Performance; Subject; Subalternity.