Species of spaces: notes on a potential exercise

Abstract

This article discusses the documentary 'Species of spaces', produced at Nomads.usp, the Center of Interactive Living Studies, in 2015, relating it to the homonymous novel by French writer Georges Perec and the principles that guide the actions of OuLiPo, the Ouvroir of Littérature Potentielle. Perec and the members of OuLiPo refer on the ideas developed in France in the early Renaissance and consolidated in the first decades of the twentieth century that question the classical forms of literature and propose the construction of writings in the manner of a wordplay, exploring different linguistic devices to express contents often trivial or deliberately misunderstanding. The video production falls within the Center interest for investigating possibilities of using documentary film as a means of reading and expressing urban realities.