A cidade entre acervos: fragmentos do coletivo Salve Rainha e Torquato Neto em Teresina-PI

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to reflect on the actions carried out by the Salve Rainha collective between the years 2014 and 2018 in the city of Teresina (Piauí) from the mobilization of documentary fragments that refer us to it. The group tensioned the city’s public spaces through interventions in different languages, bringing references and cultural themes as a way of claiming social demands. We seek to understand which vision or understanding of the city was defended by the group throughout its trajectory from fragments resulting from its performance. For this, we organized and systematized the Salve Rainha collection based on the mobilization of documents, conversations with interlocutors and, above all, through the visual sources produced by the collective. From improbable research gestures, with images as guides in this journey, we juxtapose visual fragments of Salve Rainha with photographs from the collection of the poet Torquato Neto in order to recognize survivals between these images that help us to build an idea of a city that crosses this search . With that, we realized how the construction of images by the collective had an inventive dimension as a way of narrating a city imagined in everyday life through the urban practices of a restless and even subversive youth, which showed urgency in occupying forgotten spaces in this.