The youth group of PACTO: art and body on the invention of devices in occupational therapy to the production of life and health in adolescence

Abstract

This article's aim is to present the work developed on the youth group of PACTO - Artistic Compositions and Occupational Therapy Program -, a field of experimentation and research in group intervention with people coming from different social and economic realities, and presenting multiple problematic. The analysis focus on the proposal developed in 2002 and 2003, when occupational therapists, visual artists and art-educators were involved on generating the concept, planning and inventing a device that could improve life and health projects for the people assisted, bringing a wider vision to the accompaniment of singular trajectories. The result of this work point out the construction of aim of the research developed with this group was to construct a methodology of intervention in the art and occupational therapy interface that presupposes a rigorous articulation between artistic creation and production of subjectivity. Trough a dialogue with contemporary art, this methodology explores particulars ways of relating with every-day objects in the search to experiment news meanings to look life itself.