THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND POLITICS: possible expressions of confrontation and counter-hegemony
Art. Politics. Counter-hegemony. Activism. Social Fight.
The objective of this research is to capture the meanings produced by the relations between the artistic universe and the political universe, through its artistic-political expressions in Brazilian reality. For that, I am actually moving through three phenomena: on the one hand, expressions of permanent confrontation, located here by artistic activism; on the other, the insurgent and temporally located confrontation, represented here by the #OcupaMinc Movement; finally, the censorship efforts that certain groups / individuals of the Brazilian political scene conducted in relation to artistic works in the year 2017, specifically the exhibition QueerMuseu and the performance La Bête by Wagner Schwartz. Understanding culture and, by extension, art as possible counter-hegemonic, based on the Gramscian concept of hegemony, I articulate bibliographies, news stories and contents - images, videos and texts published on the internet, seeking to construct a panorama the object of study. I find in this way a complex, mobile and fruitful scenario in the relation between art and politics, of different works and sayings, in which art, undergoing refutations and tensions of politics, also produces them, creating spaces that enhance its counterhegemonic nature.