Art and the Street: a Collaborative Audiovisual Experience with Artists from Cidade Tiradentes

Abstract

The paper presents the first results of the project that proposes the extension of the experience of producing a digital interactive map and an ethnographic film with artists from Cidade Tiradentes, district in the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, East Zone. We discuss the collaborative production of mapping, the ethnographic film making, and the circulation of the film, especially in the two debates in December 2011 with support from the Office of the Provost of Culture and Extension, University of São Paulo. The production processes of the map and the film, as well as the discussions that follow their releases, point to the importance of shared knowledge as
methodology of the work, for the political and creative power of popular appropriation of new technologies, and promote a reflection on the relationship between artistic production and a
specific form of appropriation of the urban territory.