Modos de estar juntos: os Lotes Vagos e a invenção do comum, do espaço e do tempo

Abstract

This research is motivated in a dialogue between the Lotes Vagos: Coletive Action on a Experimental Urban Ocupation, from the artists Breno Silva and Louise Ganz, and the concepts of common and community, as Giorgio Agamben have discussed it, as well as others that touch the formulation of those ones, such as what is called improper, time, space and invention. The project happened in Belo Horizonte (2005/2006) and Fortaleza (2008), this last one being our main object, composed with seven occupations. Lotes Vagos proposed the temporary occupation of urban vacancies. As a method, the artists made an agreement with the owners of the lands meanwhile opened the invitation to any propositions. In many possibilities of interpretations, Lotes Vagos made evident the public character given to a private space. In others, the project presents an invitation to open up a space to a reinvention of the self. During this investigation, it was possible to understand that whatever, concept developed by Agamben, the one who, in anyway, matters, is the main participant of the propositions on the urban vacancies. It became clear, also, that both artists and whatever user made the action happen.