Art-action-experience and the reactivation of sensibility in everyday life

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60001/ae.n50.7

Keywords:

Inframince, Infraordinary, Everyday objects, Sensibility, Videoperformance

Abstract

This article investigates a practice in videoperformance, focusing on two works that are part of my doctoral research in Visual Arts, BaldeAção and Sensorial, of 2021 and 2022 respectively. These actions create an encounter between my body and ordinary objects, proposing simple gestures that shift the perception of the banal and interrupt the logic of productive temporality. The text addresses the reactivation of sensibility as a political dimension of artistic practice, articulating concepts such as the Infraordinary, by Georges Perec, the Inframince, by Marcel Duchamp, and Jean-Luc Nancy’s approach to the sensitive body. It also establishes relations with artistic references such as Walter De Maria, Francis Alÿs, and Lygia Clark, exploring how small actions can unsettle routine and reactivate attention and a sense of wonder in everyday life.

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Author Biography

Natalia Schul Pacheco, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Visual artist, Ph.D. candidate in Visual Arts – Visual Poetics (PPGAV-UFRGS) and holder of a Master’s degree in Visual Arts – Visual Poetics (PPGAV-UFRGS, 2021). She works primarily with photo-performance and video-performance, and explores the relationships between the moving body and everyday objects in performative actions created for the camera.

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Published

2026-05-11