Under the Shadow of the Castle

Abstract

The following work seeks to investigate the effects of violence in different urban public policies concerning the geographic, social and political configuration of Rio de Janeiro, in its history, in order to deal with the implied relations between the symptoms of such urban reforms and the artistic creative process. I will articulate the questions concerning the thematic of habitation in the city, with a focus on the problems innate to the “gentrifying” logic in which is grounded the binomial center-periphery. Besides the theoretical content, the presentation will have a selection of works done by me, which I will relate, based on the theoretical framework,  to the thematic presented. Among the subjects to be addressed are the influence of the neoliberal concept of strategic urban planning on the construction of the city's urban landscape, in addition to the analysis of the concepts of gentrification and traumatic reality as poetic elements to relate artistic production with theoretical production.