Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: VICENTE DE PAULO SOUSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : VICENTE DE PAULO SOUSA
DATE: 16/12/2024
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: google meet
TITLE:

I PAINT AND YOU PAINT, LET'S SEE WHO HAS MORE PAINT?": URBAN GRAFFITI AND THE PRACTICES OF STATE POWER IN SOBRAL/CE

KEY WORDS:

Urban art; Public power; Governance practices; Erasures; Heritage

PAGES: 80
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUBÁREA: Antropologia Urbana
SUMMARY:

This research tries to show the presence of urban arts or street arts in the public spaces of
the city of Sobral in Ceara, emphasizing that such manifestations revolve around graffiti,
drawings, murals, pixos and graffiti, and in this circuit, to perceive the regulatory instances
that try to disqualify some arts, since the municipal government in 2021, regulated Law
2.055 that claims to combat visual “pollution” in the city as a measure of public interest,
which aims to preserve heritage, ensuring urban aesthetics and guaranteeing environmental
comfort. It aims to examine the practices of control, surveillance and state capture that
supposedly act to condition and discipline the urban arts in Sobral/CE, and as a
consequence, create moral categories for those who act against the established norms. It
also aims to understand how artists' subjectivities are constructed based on the Law, as well
as to understand the implications that the Law has on urban artistic actions in Sobral,
considering the tension between what the government has engendered as “legal” and
“illegal” in this artistic circuit in the city. It is important to mention the discussions that
address the characteristics of each of these arts, demystifying any conceptual confusion
that may still occur. Therefore, we rely on Gitahy (1999), Oliveira Campos (2009), Leal
(2023) and others, to discuss graffiti; Lassala (2010), Nascimento (2015) Diogenes (2017)
and other authors, to talk about the character and agencies of pixo; and on muralism, Silva
(2000), Traspadini (2019) help us understand the characteristics and objectives of this art.
No less interesting is the literature that helps us understand state practices within this
context involving public authorities and street artists in Sobral. For this reason, Das (2020),
Serge (2011), Foucault (2008), and other authors make discussions that help us understand
how the aforementioned Law becomes a grammar that ends up creating artistic margins
and peripheries, legitimizing only agencies under the domain of public power as “legal”.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1149572 - LISABETE CORADINI
Interno - 2385456 - PAULO VICTOR LEITE LOPES
Externo à Instituição - NILSON ALMINO DE FREITAS - UVA
Externo à Instituição - JOSE DUARTE BARBOSA JUNIOR - IFRN