All That Is Alive Bothers:
Art and the Political Body in Urban Space
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The interview with artist Sérgio Adriano H weaves together art, body, and public space through a trajectory marked by the urgency of Black representation and the transformative power of art. Drawing from his experiences in São Paulo and other cities, he shares creative processes, strategies of resistance, and practices of care that challenge the exclusionary logic of institutional circuits. The conversation reveals how his artistic practice refuses neutrality and calls upon the collective, operating between affection and critique, gesture and the city. This interview engages with public art as a sensitive document of an engaged poetics, in dialogue with pedagogy, memory, and affect., public art, political body, decolonial aesthetics, memory and Black representation, urban spaceAbstract
The interview with artist Sérgio Adriano H weaves together art, body, and public space through a trajectory marked by the urgency of Black representation and the transformative power of art. Drawing from his experiences in São Paulo and other cities, he shares creative processes, strategies of resistance, and practices of care that challenge the exclusionary logic of institutional circuits. The conversation reveals how his artistic practice refuses neutrality and calls upon the collective, operating between affection and critique, gesture and the city. This interview engages with public art as a sensitive document of an engaged poetics, in dialogue with pedagogy, memory, and affect.
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