Les musées d’art exposent leurs œuvres selon les modalités de curation et l’architecture même du lieu. Ce mémoire en recherche-création interroge le rôle de médium de l’espace d’exposition en s’appuyant sur un double cadre théorique : les approches matérielles des études médiatiques et la muséologie (études muséales et curatoriales). Les nombreuses spécificités du musée rotond en font un cas particulier récurrent et pertinent pour analyser la manière dont ces courbes spécifiques de l’espace muséal agissent sur l’approche curatoriale d’une exposition et l’expérience qui en découle pour le visiteur. À travers la forme médiatique qu’est le guide d’exposition, il s’agit d’explorer la présentation sur une feuille rectangulaire d’un espace d’exposition circulaire. Trois espaces significatifs font l’objet d’une étude de cas et définissent le cadre de création : la galerie des Nymphéas au Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), le Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) et la Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). Ce mémoire en recherche-création expérimente la dimension médiatique de l’espace rotond par un processus de remédiation du guide d’exposition qui vise à retranscrire matériellement la circularité de ces lieux. Animée par l’analogie entre le circulaire et l’insulaire et investissant leurs modes de représentation, j’y conçois un outil de médiation qui accompagne le visiteur dans sa découverte spatiale du musée rotond et au-delà, le promène dans une itération archipélagique, d’un cercle muséal à l’autre. Chacun des trois musées rotonds de ce pèlerinage offre un fragment de l’expérience à collecter qui, au fil des visites, formera par assemblage l’itinéraire complet et accompli d’une médiation au sein de lieux à l’exposition circulaire. Navigation inédite dans l’archipel Rotonda pour composer son Museario rotondo. Par une approche non-linéaire, tant dans l’aspect théorique et conceptuel que méthodologique, je m’intéresse aux interstices du rotond interrogeant matérialités, possibilités et affordances du circulaire. De l’histoire du rond dans un carré. / Art museums exhibit artworks according to curation methods and the architecture of the building itself. This art-based research thesis questions the medium role of the exhibition space using a double theoretical framework: materialist approach in media studies and museum studies paired with curatorial studies. The numerous specificities of the circular museum convert it into a special case, recurrent and pertinent to analyze the way these specific curves of the museum space act on the curatorial approach of an exhibition and the related experience for the visitor. Threw the media object that the exhibition guide is shaping, the purpose here is to explore the presentation on a rectangular sheet of a circular exhibition space. Three indicative spaces form case studies and define the framework for the creation phase: the Water Lilies Gallery at Musée de L’Orangerie (Paris, 1927), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, 1959) and the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection (Paris, 2021). This art-based research thesis experiments with the media dimension of the rotunda space by remediating the exhibition guide in order to transliterate materially the roundness of those places. Motivated by an analogy between circularity and insularity and investing in their representation forms, I design a mediation tool that guides the visitor in his spatial discovery of the rotunda museum and beyond, walks him threw an archipelagic iteration, from a circle museum to another. Each of the three rotunda museums of this pilgrimage offers a fragment of the experience to be collected which, over the visits, will form by assembly the complete and accomplished itinerary of a mediation within places of circular exhibition. Unprecedented navigation in the Rotonda archipelago to compose the Museario rotondo. Through a non-linear approach, as much as in the theoretical aspect as conceptual and methodological ones, I am interested in the interstices of the rotunda, questioning materialities, possibilities, and affordances of the circular. About the story of a round in a square.

[pt] Esta presente pesquisa aborda práticas estético-políticas nos campos das artes e dos ativismos, incluídos neste escopo práxis curatoriais e editoriais, tendo como denominador comum corpos transviados (sexo e gênero dissidentes), cujas atuações conformam redes contra-normativas de resistências a apagamentos frente aos regimes de visibilidade dominantes em espacialidade e temporalidade definidas como a cidade do Rio de Janeiro na década de 2010. Tais manifestações insurgentes integram movimentos sociais e políticos – levantes cuir, feminista e transfeminista –em curso no Brasil contemporâneo, e atuam nas mais diversas frentes sobre as quais incide o reposicionamento epistemológico frente às teorias e metodologias de base colonial e cisheteronormativa brancas. Este escrito trata-se, portanto, da consolidação de uma investigação participante, ancorada no corpo de um pesquisador bicha que, através de uma série de trabalhos em campo e pesquisas coletivas (manifestações, mostras, exposições, encontros, debates, treinamentos, festas, palestras, aulas, grupos de estudo, residências artísticas, leilão de arte, entre outras ações), cria estratégias de auto representação que atravessam as múltiplas manifestações estudadas. Através de exercícios de reconstituição das narrativas aqui retratadas, que a história oficial sistematicamente exclui da memória social, foi possível propor questões concernentes às práticas de memória e esquecimento, identificar relações entre as políticas de memória e escritas da história, alcançando o debate sobre o desenho de arquivos sexo e gênero dissidentes como prática político-estética de sobrevivência: uma queerização do campo do design, pensado aqui como design político, frente à sua responsabilidade ética. Trabalho que resultou também na realização de uma plataforma independente para a salvaguarda informacional e articulação comunicacional continuadas de práticas reunidas ao longo da realização desta pesquisa acadêmica. / [en] This research addresses aesthetic-political practices in the fields of arts and activism, included in this scope curatorial and editorial praxis, which have as common denominator gender and sex dissident bodies, whose actions form counter-normative networks of resistance to erasure against the dominant visibility regimes, in a spatiality and temporality defined as the city of Rio de Janeiro in the 2010s. These insurgent manifestations are part of a larger political movement, composed of a cuir, feminist, transfeminist uprising ongoing in contemporary Brazil, acting upon also on epistemological repositioning that are focused on theories and methodologies of colonial and white cisheteronormative basis. This writing is, therefore, the consolidation of a participatory investigation, anchored in the body of a queer researcher who, through a series of fieldwork and collective research (manifestations, exhibitions, meetings, debates, trainings, parties, lectures, classes, study groups, artistic residencies, art auction, among other actions), to think of self-representation strategies that cross multiple manifestations studied. By the reconstitution of queer narratives portrayed here, which official history systematically excludes from social memory, it was possible to propose questions concerning practices of memory and forgetting, to identify relations between memory and written policies of history, reaching the debate on the design of dissident sex and gender archives as a political-aesthetic strategy of survival: a queerization of the field of design, thought of here as political design, facing its ethical responsibility. For this reason, this work also results in the realization of an independent platform for the continued informational safeguarding and communicative articulation of practices gathered throughout this academic research.