Quem sujou as mãos de tinta? Estética, gesto e matéria em intervenções artísticas urbanas

Abstract

This work presents some elements of the research that I have been doing in my PhD that will have as its theme the urban artistic interventions. First I figure out methodological questions of what I call "gestural ethnography". What are the contributions to the city, image and urban art studies of an approach that takes into account the imagination and the gesture? Ethnography has much to contribute to such studies when it demonstrates a particular and everyday version of how urban interventions are being imagined and operationalized in the daily lives of urban artists. Thinking over two trajectories of urban artists formed in the city of Porto Alegre, southern Brazil, I relate them to ideas derived from a phenomenology of experience and imaginary theory. I conclude that Gilbert Durand's idea of constructing an "anthropological path of the imaginary" is a good tool for research on the subject of urban art that seeks to dialogue with concepts such as aesthetics, gesture and matter.