Abstract

MOURAO, Rui. Our Dreams Do not Fit In Your Urns: An Artivist Experimentation Laboratory. CIDADES [online]. 2017, n.34, pp.61-71. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/citiescommunitiesterritories.jun2017.034.art05.

There is a dominant framework of art that limits its social impact based on criteria defined and reproduced by cultural elites. Artivist performances can subvert these power relations since they incorporate symbolic dissolution in an intervening way in the real. They have a transforming potential - individual and collective - that combines aesthetics with ethics and brings art closer to society. Within this logic, in a rupture of disciplinary limits between art, politics and anthropology, I developed the artivist troika. OUR DREAMS DO NOT FALL IN YOUR URNAS, consisting of a book (Artivismo - Video and Performance) + video installation (exhibited at MNAC - Museu do Chiado) + performance in 3 Acts (which began with the Artivist occupation of MNAC - Chiado Museum and expanded to MNAA and Ajuda National Palace, headquarters of the public power of Culture in Portugal). The article presents the authorial perspective of an entire artistic and political laboratory where artistic forms were created that enabled a voice in the public sphere, constituting its participants in political actors of contestation to the status quo. Throughout the text it is revealed how experience was lived in loco, demonstrating how art can empower people and how the body is the most democratic and universal medium to execute it. After a deep process of questioning the art system, we inevitably come to question the artist's own place in contemporary society.

Keywords : Performance activist; cultural activism; artivism; affection.

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