Artivismo: quando o artista assume o papel de ativista político - uma reportagem

Abstract

Amid the political polarization occuring in Brazil due the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, the threats, by the actual president Jair Bolsonaro, of eliminating the Ministry of Culture and reducing cultural policies, the given work seeks to understand the "artivism" phenomenon. Starting by an outbreak of demonstrations, artists started to be more activists, by addressing political and social discussion in their works. This work also inclui the rising of artistic collectives by exposing the perception of artists and how they see the whole process and the relation of art and politics.