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Arts & Communication Performance arts, public space, and early childhood

6. Rediscovering the landscape an ecosystem, as a set of situations and a field of forces.
Oiticica observed this as the passage from architectural
Late morning. The sun peeks through the trees, space to experience within architectural space.
gradually warming the room. In the middle of the
garden, colorful overlapping rugs mark the meeting In the same way, the inhabitable and performable
place. In the background, a musician coordinates space proposed by Núcleo Quanta encourages the free
the soundscape. Two dancers stretch, and suddenly, participation of spectators (children and adults) who
a child runs. From that moment on, a new game become entangled in a play in which multiple relationships
takes place, from the perception of the environment can be created within a performative system. In this system,
to the permissiveness of the action. A little boy all the parts present are equivalent to the enjoyment and
crawls, two sisters pretend to be butterflies, and invention of the scene. The artistic action contaminates the
others follow the movements of ballerinas while a spectator, who, in turn, contaminates the artistic action,
little boy snuggles up to suckle on his mother’s lap. much like an organism.
An actor appears, waving white plastic clouds, and Integrating the play space with the garden landscape
children and adults alike experience the movement adds another element to this scenic ecosystem, expanding
in the air. The wind sways the leaves, which fall over the spatial dimension and the possibilities of sensorial
the scene, and the light traces mosaics of shadow experience for the participants in the scene:
over the carpets.
By constructing the scenic space, Núcleo Quanta Landscape is between space and site; it is the
subject’s experience of the world that they
reveals an environment in which children’s potency is experience, reconstruct, and re-signify. (...) It
realized through play while at the same time stimulating concerns the experience of the senses, of thought,
the relationship between all the participants in the scene and of esthetic reception in play with materiality,
(artists and spectators), as we are in Figure 3, above. with the terrain .
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To achieve this, it reflects on the systemic relationship
between inhabitants of the same environment and weaves EmQuanta takes place as a phenomenon that is linked
the scenic space as a dwelling place within an ecosystemic to the audience’s body, to the play in the scene, and to
relationship, in which all the elements are in a dynamic the space occupied in a relational way. Its surroundings
relationship: Light, materialities, constructions, sounds, welcome the subjects and the relationships that take place
visualities, movements, and performances, forming a with its natural materialities: Wind, light and shadows,
scenic ecosystem. textures, aromas, and temperatures. This gives rise to a
poetics that integrates humans and nature, represented by
When investigating his concept of environmental art, the space of a garden, as we are in Figure 4 below.
Hélio Oiticica sought a work that would be achieved by
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expanding the sensations evoked by bodily experimentation This experience of the senses can be seen in the bodies
in environments that would allow spectators to actively that are willing to encounter the landscape scene, shy at
participate. The environment would, thus, act, much like first, but who allow themselves to be bathed in the sun,

Figure 3. EmQuanta: artistic action in the garden of Alvaro Guerra Public Figure 4. EmQuanta: artistic action in Aclimação Park, June 05, 2022.
Library, June 25, 2022. Photo by Wilson Julião. Photo by Wilson Julião.

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2024) 7 https://doi.org/10.36922/ac.1668