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Estética da Ginga: A Arquitetura das Favelas através da Obra de Hélio Oiticica
Estética da ginga – A arquitetura das favelas através da obra de Hélio Oiticica goes from a transcendental gesture [the rising of the artist, Hélio Oiticica, to favela's hill] to perform a mapping in three fields: artistic, architectural and, by extension, the sociocultural.
The book pursues an interdisciplinary frontier, narrowing notions of art, architecture and philosophy.
The life and work of Hélio Oiticica serve as a living model for this aesthetic in which the "ginga", dancing, covering and uncovering his body of dancer, artist, slum inhabitant, the artist evokes at the same time the samba of the "favelas", the "favelas" themselves, and shows us that the origin of the artwork changes every moment in the life of a city, a group, a man, in a sort of ephemeral joy.
The book pursues an interdisciplinary frontier, narrowing notions of art, architecture and philosophy.
The life and work of Hélio Oiticica serve as a living model for this aesthetic in which the "ginga", dancing, covering and uncovering his body of dancer, artist, slum inhabitant, the artist evokes at the same time the samba of the "favelas", the "favelas" themselves, and shows us that the origin of the artwork changes every moment in the life of a city, a group, a man, in a sort of ephemeral joy.
- GenresUrban Planning
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
About the author
Paola Berenstein Jacques
22 books7 followersPaola Berenstein Jacques é professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais da Universidade Federal da Bahia. É pesquisadora do CNPq e coordena o grupo de pesquisa Laboratório Urbano. É autora de Les favelas de Rio (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2001); Estética da Ginga (Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2001); Esthétique des favelas (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003); co-autora de Maré, vida na favela (Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2002) e organizadora de Apologia da Deriva (Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2003), Corps et Décors Urbains (Paris, l’Harmattan, 2006), Corpos e cenários urbanos (Salvador, Edufba, 2006) e Corpocidade: debates, ações e articulações (Salvador, Edufba, 2010).
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Paola Berenstein Jacques works as a professor at the Architecture and Urbanism as well as the Visual Arts graduate programs at the Federal University of Bahia. She also works as a researcher for CNPq [National Council of Scientific and Technological Development], coordinating the Laboratório Urbano [Urban Laboratory] research group. She is the author of Les favelas de Rio (“Slums in Rio” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2001); Estética da Ginga (“The Aesthetics of Sway” -Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2001); Esthétique des favelas (“The Aesthetics of the Slums” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003); co-author of Maré, vida na favela (“Maré, Life in the Slums” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2002), and the organizer of Apologia da Deriva (“An Apologetics of Drifting” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2003), Corps et Décors Urbains (“Urban Bodies and Decorations” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2006), Corpos e cenários urbanos (“Urban Bodies and Sceneries” – Salvador, Edufba, 2006), and Corpocidade: debates, ações e articulações (“Corpocidade: debates, actions, and articulations” – Salvador, Edufba, 2010).
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Paola Berenstein Jacques works as a professor at the Architecture and Urbanism as well as the Visual Arts graduate programs at the Federal University of Bahia. She also works as a researcher for CNPq [National Council of Scientific and Technological Development], coordinating the Laboratório Urbano [Urban Laboratory] research group. She is the author of Les favelas de Rio (“Slums in Rio” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2001); Estética da Ginga (“The Aesthetics of Sway” -Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2001); Esthétique des favelas (“The Aesthetics of the Slums” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2003); co-author of Maré, vida na favela (“Maré, Life in the Slums” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2002), and the organizer of Apologia da Deriva (“An Apologetics of Drifting” – Rio de Janeiro, Casa da Palavra, 2003), Corps et Décors Urbains (“Urban Bodies and Decorations” – Paris, l’Harmattan, 2006), Corpos e cenários urbanos (“Urban Bodies and Sceneries” – Salvador, Edufba, 2006), and Corpocidade: debates, ações e articulações (“Corpocidade: debates, actions, and articulations” – Salvador, Edufba, 2010).
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June 2, 2020
Jacques falando do Helio Oiticica:
me: I sleep
Jacques announces espaço-movimento
me: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠
me: I sleep
Jacques announces espaço-movimento
me: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠
May 4, 2026
O mato só existe entre espaços não cultivados. Ele preenche os vazios. Cresce entre, no meio de outras coisas. A flor é bela, o repolho é útil, a papoula enlouquece. Mas o mato é transbordamento, é uma lição de moral. (p. 141)
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