Arte colaborativa no espaço público: Algumas reflexões sobre os coletivos gia, poro e opavivará

Abstract

This article proposes a critical and comparative analysis of some of the urban interventions executed by Brazilian collectives PORO, GIA and OPAVIVARÁ!.
These actions use public spaces of many urban scenarios as territory for their experiments and new engagements: aesthetical and political actions which aim to interfere with the day-to-day sense of “normality” of the pedestrians, producing new subjectivities, affective trades and encounters amongst the plurality and heterogeneity of the urban cosmo. The attempt of taking art out of the institutionalized and official centers’ walls and spreading it all over the city streets is no novelty. Since the 60’s, artists and collectives engaged themselves in this challenge, proposing alternative art circles and new ways of thinking art — attitudes which, nowadays, echo in a variety of ways. By creating artistic interventions in different cities, PORO, GIA and OPAVIVARÁ! groups acknowledge actions of resistance and ephemeral tactics which, in a micro political sphere, mayact in the breeches and chinks of social and urban dispositions apparently consolidated, which are, in their way, part of a system more and more homogenizer and oppressive. Thus, how art collectives are able to act in the city? Which would be the importance of these resistance procedures for the urban public and political spaces? How Art could generate relevant questionings on the urbe and its social/rational dynamics? These are a few reflections presented in this article.