Spatial Practices in the City: The Kidnapping of an Arts Organization

Abstract Spatial practices and resistance processes play an important role in the organization of a city. In this context, we propose a study aimed at understanding the spatial practices of ruptures imbricated in the process of resistance manifested in the kidnapping of an arts organization, the April Exhibition (Salão de Abril), which is the most important art exhibition in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. To this purpose, we used a mobile ethnography approach to single out some of the spatial practices regarding the arts organization under study. The main results reveal a network of rupture practices, which is intertwined with resistance processes in a dynamic of constitutive mutuality. This network highlights the kidnapping as a bridge to reach and include different spaces of the city that had not been practiced by the former organizers. Thus, the research contributes to an enlargement of the interlaced debate of practices, space, ruptures and resistance in the contexts of the city organizing and the Management and Organizational Studies.

空间实践与抵抗过程在城市治理中发挥着重要作用。在此背景下，本研究旨在探析与某艺术组织被夺权事件中所体现的抵抗过程相叠合的断裂性空间实践，该艺术组织即巴西福塔莱萨市最重要的艺术展——四月展（Salão de Abril）。为此，本研究采用移动民族志方法，梳理出所研究艺术组织相关的若干空间实践。主要研究结果显示，存在一套断裂性实践网络，该网络与抵抗过程以构成性互构的动态逻辑相互交织。该网络凸显出，此次夺权事件成为连接并纳入此前主办方未曾涉足的城市多元空间的桥梁。据此，本研究有助于拓展城市治理与管理及组织研究语境下，关于实践、空间、断裂与抵抗的交叉性学术讨论。