Body-happening: A Counterpoint To The Body Formed In Our Schools

Abstract

This essay intends to stablish a dialogue between life and art conceptions, and the formative context that have been built through history, particularly at educational institutions. Building on Foucault's critique to "docile bodies" and disciplinary institutions, we developed the concept of "Stagnant Body" and propose, through an improvisational approach in art - such in dance experience of the authors as in Henri Cartier-Bresson's work, perceived here as a sensitive "moments" photographer -, the possibility to have the "Happening-Body" as aim in one's formation.