Poetic activism: Transposing the politics from the streets to art sites

Abstract

This article aims to clarify the links between art and politics in the context of urban activism perpetrated by collectives and exhibited as works of art. We start from the assumption that there would be a poetic nature in these acts that would allow its insertion in the art circles. For that, we observe some urban acts of the collective Frente Três de Fevereiro and Política do Impossível, exhibited in several art shows. We characterize the poetic nature of their works through the theoretical subsidies offered by Jacques Rancière and Roland Barthes, relating it to a refusal of the communicative quality of language. This nature would make possible its transposition to the means of the art, within the scope of what Jacques Rancière comprises by Aesthetic Regime.