O arte móvel urbana: a discussão da cidade através do corpo

Abstract

Between 2008 and 2012, the Municipal Culture Department (SMC) of the city of Uberlândia – MG proposed the Urban Mobile Art (AMU) program, which encouraged experimentation with the city as a place of art. The artistic interventions present at the Urban Mobile Art took place in different public spaces and sought, in general, to instigate the population and generate reflections on the urban context. The purpose of this master's research is to reflect, based on the analysis of Urban Mobile Art, how works that use the body as a tool can act in the discussion of public space. A survey of the artistic interventions and the general scenario of the project is carried out, mainly on the format of the public notice that took place in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and, in view of that, three practices are selected to be the object of study in this work. The three works: Hominidae (2009) by Ricardo Alvarenga, On the silence of the shell (2010) by Ana Reis and Cássia Nunes and Artist's Lunch (whose square is it?) (2011) by Paulo Rogério Luciano, serve as guides for reflections on the relationships established between the body – the artist and spectator, art and city. During the study, the aim is to develop an approximation with concepts that lead and sustain the debate, in addition to being guidelines for the analysis that is carried out on artistic manifestations and their impact on the city.