Art & politics: urban tessitures

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Iulo Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Marília Flores Seixas de, Oliveira, Orlando José Ribeiro de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Entretextos
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/entretextos/article/view/14655
• topic: Politics; Activist art; Artistic collectives; Arte; Política; Arte ativista; Coletivos artísticos

In this paper, we discuss some of the intersections between art and politics, focusing especially directed to the aesthetic movement called activist art whose languages used in the construction of their propositions dialogue with the urban space. We then created connections between certain concepts and theories of activist art, theoretically supported by authors like Mesquita (2011), Chaia (2007) and Felshin (1995). We relate the notion of city as thought by Ramos (2009) and Mongin (2009) to some artistic actions developed contemporaneously by artistic collectives that operate in public places, even though they do not call themselves artists activists. We observed that the artistic approach closer to people and the urban, the artistic languages used with symbolic appropriation and misuse of communication tools, mediate public participation in artistic activities. The questioning of the cultural representations and the preoccupation with the new settings and the remaining power of artistic outline a new attitude and a new answer to perception and understanding of their propositions.