Cena central : a intervenção de arte pública e a ressignificação do urbano no centro histórico de Cuiabá/MT

Abstract

This investigation approaches the relationship between public art intervention and the redefinition of the urban in the historic downtown of Cuiabá/MT, focusing on the manifestations of the dramatic arts, adopting as objects of study the performances Passeio Noturno (2015), by Grupo Tibanaré and Lab Sentidos (2020), by the Theatro Fúria group. It begins with the conceptualization of what the contemporary city is and the characterization of the study territory, with its imagery aspects, relations of use and current challenges, passing through the notion of public art intervention, in order to identify examples of works of this kind. category that occurred in the capital, their respective procedures, and proposals for spatial reinterpretation. Having Fontes (2011) as the main theoreticalmethodological reference, connections of the works studied with the concepts of living city defended by Jacobs (2011), urban acupuncture coined by Jaime Lerner (2005) and social drama by Turner (2011) were identified evidencing gains in amiability, of people among themselves and in relation to space, and in the reconstruction of paths, as well as the potential of artistic actions to aid in the processes of requalification of urban territories.