Cozinhar-te: domesticidades e experimentações no III Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas (1980)

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the performance/installation Cozinhar-te, whose experimental and provocative character both aligns and questions the artistic, cultural and political arenas of its time. Conceived by a collective named Grupo Cuidado Louças in 1980, the work consists in the appropriation and displacement of the kitchen space to the III Salão Nacional de Artes Plásticas of 1980, where the group remained during the exhibition period. Its dialogue with the Anthropophagic Manifesto, alignment with the resistance to the civil-military dictatorship and the potential of performance to represent and question everyday practices are some of the work’s facets explored herein. It is particularly interesting to reflect on the questioning of the boundaries between public and private spaces present in the group’s proposal, based on the notion of gender technology. As a result, it is worth highlighting the affirmation of the collective character of Cozinhar-te realized by means of the presentation of Grupo Cuidado Louças and the collaborative process of its execution. In addition, I also point to approximations and distances between arguments existing in the work and other productions interested in thematizing the domestic space, many of which are aligned with feminist criticism.