Caminhar, perceber, parar, experienciar: as feiras dentro da Feira de Arapiraca - AL

Abstract

This paper will deal with the fair as a space of perception of sensitive knowledge and has, as its main objective, the identification of the spatiality of the fair through experience. I seek to pursue the experience of the fair, to follow some ways of doing the Arapiraca fair, which express themselves in the daily experience, in their gambiarras and habitual ways of organizing, living and creating the spatiality of this place. I try to find singularities of this hybrid, alive, pulsating space that provide visibility to processes that constitute different dimensions of the city and resonate in the relationship between it and the street market. The fair requests moving actions, that dance and adapt to the provisional - its most intimate character. The fair needs less fixed actions, the opposite of what happens in reordering, organizing movements and changes brought by the municipal public power. What is this fair that it is not possible to see from above, using the tools that are used today to think the city? From above, like someone looking at a map, the fair cannot be seen. From above, in a hierarchical position, you can't see the fair either. Why look, then, from below, and get to know the fair with a tiny f? With this work, I aim to pursue these fairs from below, from inside, from the height of my feet on the ground. To do so, I anchor myself in the journey through the fair: both the journey of traveling, of walking through the fair today, and the journey of the memories that go through me, through my family, through Hermeto Pascoal's poems and the market vendors' speeches.