Um olhar sobre a performance maiêutica

Abstract

This present study intends to analyze the relations between performance art and semiotics, based on theoretical studies by American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. Identifying these performances as potential communicational manifestations is a way of adding them greater value when dealing with actions full of concepts and contents relevant to the individual involved. For this research the performance of the Cuiabana artist, Raquel Mutzenberg, will serve as an example in the discussions about the importance of the arts in the construction of more critical and questioning thoughts, consequently, being regarded as possible triggers in processes of evolution and improvement of social relations. Thus, we propose a study of the relevance of performance art in the daily life of those who consume them and how these individuals are affected by the way semiotic phenomena appear in such actions.