“Intensified” Studies of an Art-investigation

Artistic Residencies and Authorial Productivity in the Fear of Helplessness

Abstract

This essay deals about regimes of practices that some artists adopt when they reside outside their usual places. In these decontextualized reside, they share with other people a creative process to form a transversal work mechanism whose possibilities, flows and forms are permanently updated and sustain their work in dialogue with momentary groups. Residing here and there sharing art-life segments constitutes a work format that many art residencies currently develop. In this article, various nuances of residence are reviewed through a methodological proposal of art-research whose interdisciplinary incursion "intensifies" (Viveiros de Castro) studies on sixteenth-century authors (Boucheron), with the aim of accounting for the timelessness of certain difficulties that artists, and their works in progress, go through for the maintenance of authorial autonomy when, in dissent to what has been instituted (Tatián) are crossed by the fear of helplessness (Safatle). The discussion on the professional status of the artist and authorial autonomy is dealt in many art residencies, spaces of help that allow contemporary arguments to be raised about art-life and the inseparable relationship with the socio-political issues that cross it (Heinich, Bourdieu).