Arte Ocupa or art as a space for the common

Abstract

ARTE OCUPA is a dossier that gathers theoretical reflections, curatorship, interviews and visual essays (drawings, photos, videos, performances, urban art) and discusses artistic practices based on a great collective cartography in which peripheral alleys, abandoned/occupied buildings, degraded centers, ruins, street marches, public protests and multiple inflammable territories scattered throughout the Brazilian and foreign territories (especially South American) are given not only as an alternative space for artistic practices but, at the same time, as a place for strengthening and exercising citizenship, notions of belonging and urban resistance.