The collapse of public art in contemporary avant-garde artistic practices: Itinerant Cultural Geodesic in the Baldinhos Revolution

Abstract

This study seeks to understand the production of recent art in the public sphere as an overflow of contemporary art, in a movement that seems to reveal the insufficiency of traditional spaces for an art that has become political and that, collaterally, puts into dispute the validity of the notion of public art as a category. At the same time, we aim to investigate the production of these artists and collectives of artists (and non-artists), committed to the connections between art, politics and social issues in the public sphere, from perspectives that identify them as “contemporary vanguards”, reflected in practices that update utopias, strategies and actions of the first avant-garde of the 20th century, especially the Russian avant-garde, in their articulations between political-social concerns and aesthetic elaborations.