THE CITY AS AN OPEN BOOK: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN URBAN ART, CITY AND SOCIETY
Urban art; Communication; City; Image; Writing.
The present dissertation aims to investigate a contemporary phenomenon called urban art, or street art; through visual expressions, which are inscribed on the surface of the city, popularly known as '' graffiti and pixation ''. In so far as that these practices imply the use of the city as support for these moving images, they represent genres of expression of a visual language with its own foundations and communicative intentions. In this research the writings are thought from the concept of minor literature (DELEUZE, GUATARRI, 1975); That is to say, these practices present themselves as forms of expression of a popular art, with political and esthetic dimensions that confront ambiguous valences, as art and the crime. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the extent to which writing in movement is capable of challenging the architecture of the city and re-signifying urban space, as well as being able to reinvent a written language in order to challenge official grammatical language. In what measures are such inventive arts capable to bring concrete transformations in the organization of our daily life? Starting from photographic records and analyzes of social and artistic experiments, the proposal of the work is to think about the urban communication and its unfoldings in the city and society.