Phenomenology and carnival production chain

Abstract

Maurice Merleau-Ponty sustained the world engages the body consciousness. 50 years after the publication of his “The Visible and the Invisible”, a group of teachers and artists enrolled on the theory and practice of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival propose a discussion on the reverberation of his Phenomenology on this field, trying to understand how the ideas of this philosopher spread through brazilian artistic movement Neoconcretism and, from this, to the practice and thinking of Carnival and its production chain.