A cidade imaginada: percursos poéticos

Abstract

This master\'s research in the search line \"practices and processes in the arts,\" has a proposal to look and reflect on the city (Uberlândia, MG) from art projects, considering their physical appearance as opposed to users perceptions of their urban space, what they observe and what they think and report through their lines. Seeks to address this town contextualized and which blends the dynamics of life, trade, power, conformation and longings. Give yourself through artwork interspersed reflection and theoretical approaches of these exercises plastics. So is contextualized in the exercise of artistic and dialogue between these thinkers and art, the city, the geography and the human condition. Five plastic works were carried out during the research: \"The Imagined City\" triggering situations and contradictory conditions of the real city, from its appearance factual and crisscrossed the spoken it; \"Urban Itineraries\" that causes the viewer from a invitation to meet this city real or imagined. Both were lodged in the public municipal art gallery \"Oficina Cultural\" in Uberlândia. As an outcome of the research were also carried out two urban interventions: \"Artist Lunch (who is the owner of the square?)\" Action that held the square Colonel Virgilio Rodrigues da Cunha, discussing the relationship between what is public and what is private in the city, and \"Turning Point\" conducted in two districts of Uberlandia, a look back to the equipment and appliances urban, in this case the bus stops from their plates. The fifth, and last work - \"Classifieds\" - was presented at the University Museum of Art (Muna - Uberlândia, MG), triggering a city constantly surrounded by negotiations that include alleged rents its public buildings, political decisions being bartered and other events that also move between the real and the imagined, leaving tracks doubtful situations to exhibition visitors. In the course of the research work feeds the plastic reflection on the theme of the survey, while this reflection also brings support for the preparation of work aligned with the proposal presented here. Acting with artwork in the city and taking the city as a territory of investigation is also exerting a constant negotiation in the sphere of public power through authorizations and desautorizações, issue also addressed by research.