BORGES, Vera. Collaborative art: a localized observation of theaters and its publics. []. , 22, 2, pp.453-476. ISSN 0873-6561.  https://doi.org/10.4000/etnografica.5655.

The opening of art and its structures to local communities has been helping to further the public’s involvement in culture and in the decisions made about it. Cultural and artistic activities are now experienced as local heritage and they represent a great deal of collaborative work that goes beyond the more institutionalized recognition logic of culture. In this article, we analyze three artistic contexts of collaborative art with the aim of extracting the meaning of what is locally relevant to these people. The dynamism of cultural structures, their artist-directors, teams and publics, their spontaneous and informal networks, proximity and involvement all warrant more in-depth fieldwork. Accordingly, we try to shed light on the missions of each structure and community by means of ethnographic observation. This reveals the diversity of routines and rupture in their day-to-day artistic work, practices and collaborative interactions. We see that the structures which call for the local population’s participation provide the public with contexts of conviviality which can enhance the well-being of a small circle of local inhabitants.

: theater; collaboration; public; ethnographic observation.

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