Capture and resistance: communicative potencies and politics of urban intervention practices

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the resistance possibilities that the communicative practices of urban intervention are capable to offer to the attempts of the institutional power in capturing them, absorbing them and to integrate them at the effective logics in order to keep them under its control. The trajectory of the group that transformed pilasters of the subway of São Paulo into an open sky museum of urban art tied to the experience of the group that tarred, consecutively, the Biennial of Art of São Paulo in 2008 and 2010, and the Biennial one of Berlin, in 2012, can evidence some of the political, aesthetic, communicative and artistic questions that cross it, to the light of the contributions of Certeau, Mouffe, Rancière and Agamben.