Arte Performance: uma análise na obra Reservoir, de Francisco Rider

Abstract

The present research, Art Performance: an analysis in Francisco Rider’s Reservoir, aims to analyze the performatic rite in the Reservoir, by the Amazonian performer Francisco Rider, whose presentation was held during the I Manaus Visual Arts Exhibition and was promoted by the Fundação Municipal de Cultura, Turismo e Eventos (ManausCult), an organ linked to the Prefeitura Municipal de Manaus (PMM). The research has support in the Phenomenology, being this the epistemological paradigm under a qualitative approach. The investigation of the Performance phenomenon in the context of contemporary art in Manaus presents a synthesis of the artistic language with the use of the body in the global, national and local context. Next, an interlocution is made with the paradigm of complexity, allowing to understand the Amazonian multiculturalism in its varied historical and cultural aspects. The Performance Reservoir had its first presentation in Judson Memorial Church (New York, USA) in 2004, space that integrates Laboratory Movement Research. After 16 years, it emerges with new formats in an open environment, occupying for almost an hour, the Dom Pedro II square, in the historic center of the Amazonian capital. The presentation of the Reservoir integrates constitutive elements of an environment that pulsates life, being this the object investigated.