Cultural Action for reinvention of libraries practices: creation of other means and other purposes: the Coletivo Estopô Balaio contributions

Abstract

Introduction: Cultural Action is a conceptual area and experimental practice in the arts, present also in professional practices of librarians in public libraries.
Objective: It marks the importance of dialogue between different professionals, within and outside libraries who can check expressive articulation and autonomy for local cultural groups, resize practices and possibilities of many experiences in the cultural dispositives in the city. This report intends to indicate the Library as an apparatus for affirmation of local expresivity, articulation between subjects and apropriation (cultural and simbolic) of public spaces. Furthermore, it seeks to raise reflections about professional performance of librarians in educative-cultural contexts, mostly, pertaining to Cultural Action.
Methodology: Experience report that brings back partnerships, approaches and executes projects by Coletivo Estopô Balaio at the eastern border of São Paulo. On this subject, a documentary research was implemented, starting with the production of the own group with theoretical subsidies of the scientific field of Cultural Action, which sustains the narratives.
Results: The colaboration between librarians and artists/educators shows that it is necessary to redefine and enlarge actions at the Public Library in a socialcultural action perspective.
Conclusion: The Cultural Action, in an articulated perspective, puts together aspects of expressive statement of groups and social actors, redefinition of cultural dispositives and professional practices, approach between arts and librarianship.