A cidade como um livro aberto: caligrafias urbanas nas ruas de Natal/RN

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the contemporary city from the phenomenon of "Urban Art", specifically the segments - graffiti and pixo -, in the city of Natal. Based on the proposal to think "the city as an open book", to articulate the theoretical concepts with the artistic experimentation in which the researcher is inserted, the surface of the city is thought in this context as material of scientific analysis while dense narrative description. For this purpose, three main concepts are explored; or of minor literature (DELEUZE, GUATTARI, 1977); the sharing of the sensitive (RANCIÈRE, 2005); and heterotopia (Foucault, 2013). In this sense, the research chains the intellectual exercise with the poetic sensibility, to perceive and to think the urban writings. Thus, the purpose of the work is to highlight the narratives enunciated by these practices, questioning how they re-signify urban space in aesthetic and political terms, insofar as they challenge the architecture of the city.