Poéticas públicas: exercícios de imaginação entre arte e política

Abstract

This thesis addresses the connections between visual arts and the processes of public policy construction through artworks that incite reflection, debate, and mobilization, involving citizens and communities in activities and projects that serve as spaces for participation and poetic and political experimentation. Thus, artistic productions can be understood as strategies for artists and other citizens to build social and political relationships that may lead to concrete social transformations in their contexts. The research is divided into three chapters. The first one discusses the invention of politics and its mechanisms of participation, as well as some movements, groups, and artists who develop works where politics and participation are fundamental elements of their constitution. In the second chapter, there is a mapping of about forty works by different artists, whose works act as social mediators, playful, critical, and sensitive devices capable of articulating thoughts, actions, and political subjects. They provide a field of references for the intersection between the arts and public policies, capable of triggering developments in both fields. The third chapter proposes an exercise in creating “public poetics,” that is, artistic works that contribute to the construction of cultural policies in the Brazilian context.