Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o significado das obras de arte pública permanentes, comissionadas pela 5.ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre, entre 2004 e 2006, sob o prisma das questões da site-specificity e/ou place-specificity. As esculturas de Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross e Waltercio Caldas, são tomadas como estudo de caso para a discussão dessas questões, ou seja, para investigar as possibilidades de transformação de um local (espaço físico) em lugar (local dotado de significados), por meio de obras de arte projetadas especificamente com esse objetivo. / The paper aims at searching for the meaning of perennial public artworks done under the 5th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2004-2006) order, looking at the issues of site-specificity and/or place-specificity. Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross and Waltercio Caldas’s sculptures are the case study for the debate of such issues. Investigating the possibility of transforming spaces into sites through the placement of artworks produced for that purpose.

Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar o significado das obras de arte pública permanentes, comissionadas pela 5.ª Bienal do Mercosul, em Porto Alegre, entre 2004 e 2006, sob o prisma das questões da site-specificity e/ou place-specificity. As esculturas de Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross e Waltercio Caldas, são tomadas como estudo de caso para a discussão dessas questões, ou seja, para investigar as possibilidades de transformação de um local (espaço físico) em lugar (local dotado de significados), por meio de obras de arte projetadas especificamente com esse objetivo. / The paper aims at searching for the meaning of perennial public artworks done under the 5th Mercosul Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2004-2006) order, looking at the issues of site-specificity and/or place-specificity. Mauro Fuke, José Resende, Carmela Gross and Waltercio Caldas’s sculptures are the case study for the debate of such issues. Investigating the possibility of transforming spaces into sites through the placement of artworks produced for that purpose.

Ao final do ano de 98, do século passado, um coletivo de pessoas ligadas à produção teatral passou a se reunir semanalmente na cidade de São Paulo para pensar a função e o papel do teatro diante do quadro político que se desenhava, um ambiente de aprofundamento de políticas de orientação neoliberal iniciadas no governo Collor e que começavam a ganhar força com a eleição de Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) em seu primeiro mandato como presidente do Brasil. Passados seis meses do encontro inicial, o grupo chegou à formulação de um texto síntese das ideias debatidas naquele período. Esse documento recebeu o nome de Manifesto Arte Contra a Barbárie, nome pelo qual o grupo ficou conhecido. Durante a trajetória da pesquisa pudemos tomar contato com documentos que davam conta de que logo após o lançamento do Primeiro Manifesto iniciou-se uma considerável participação feminina nos encontros, impulsionando as atividades de discussão e a formação de grupos de trabalho. Ocorre que a maior parte dos relatos sobre o Arte Contra a Barbárie, aos quais tive acesso, dão conta de que era um grupo formado por homens. Esses relatos acabam por passar a impressão de que as mulheres não tinham uma participação ativa em todo o processo, ou mesmo que sua participação era restringida. A dissertação tem como objetivo primeiro registrar a participação feminina nesse processo de luta que acabou por mobilizar inúmeras pessoas em busca da conquista de políticas públicas para a produção cultural. Já o segundo objetivo é identificar indícios de ações, mecanismos ou estruturas que possam ter resultado em uma invisibilização das contribuições dessas figuras femininas nas lutas políticas e sociais importantes, como o processo que levou à conquista da lei que criou o Programa de Fomento ao Teatro para a Cidade de São Paulo / At the end of the year 98, in the last century, a collective of people related to the theater production gathered weekly in the city of São Paulo to think about the function and the role of theater in the face of the political framework that was being developed, of neoliberal orientation policies initiated in the Collor government and that were beginning to gain strength by electing Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) in his first term as president of Brazil. After six months of the initial meeting of the group, the group put together a summarized text of the ideas debated in that period. This document was named Manifesto Arte contra a Barbárie, name by which the group became known. During the course of the research, I was able to examine documents that showed that soon after the launch of the first manifesto a considerable amount of female participation in the meetings began, encouraging discussion activities and the formation of working groups. It turns out that most of the reports on the Arte Contra Barbarie, to which I had access, treated the group as one formed only by men, and these reports end up giving the impression that women did not have an active participation in the whole process, or even that their participation was restricted. The dissertation aims first at registering the female participation in this process of struggle that ended up mobilizing countless people in search of gaining public policies for cultural production. The second objective is to identify indications of actions, mechanisms or structures that may have resulted in the invisibility of the contributions of these female figures in important political and social struggles, such as the process that led to the achievement of the law that created the Programa de Fomento ao teatro para a cidade de São Paulo

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With special attention being paid to the development in the city of Brno, the dissertation focuses on the issue of applying artworks in Czechoslovak architecture after World War II. The main research questions – Why were in Czechoslovakia after 1945 artworks again integrated in architecture and what strategies were applied in the case of the newly built housing estates in the city of Brno? – are answered in two successive sections. First, the institutional background for application of art in architecture in the light of the events in Brno (1945–1993) is examined; the closing part is devoted to three case studies that illustrate local development in the period of socialist realism, creative release of the1960s and political normalization. The aim is to highlight the complexity of the examined subject and refute a popularly handed down conviction that integration of artworks into architecture in the period of socialism was motivated exclusively by the communist propaganda, and to show that the attempts to create a synthesis of art and architecture were also based both on earlier theoretical considerations about the educational function of art and its effect on humans and the need to improve poor economic situation of artists after World War II.

This essay explores public monuments and memorials raised in dedication to historic women in the Swedish cities of Uppsala, Gävle and Västerås. Through the reception aesthetic method, the chosen works of art are analysed from a gender perspective. The overall history of public sculpture in Sweden, including the female nude sculptures, is examined closely, where the monuments and memorials which have been raised in dedication to historic men are compared to those raised in dedication for historic women. The range of artworks vary from traditional monument to modern and postmodern aestethics. The importance of figurative representation is the main focus of this study, and the purpose is to convey how women are represented in the monuments spatial situation and how it varies from the male sculptural representation.

This study investigates how water is depicted in contemporary public art in Sweden, a country surrounded and built by water, and how it reflects in the art. The essay is based on Rosalind Krauss’ sculpture theory and examines how a mythical and vital substance like water is depicted and what its underlaying meaning is in three contemporary public sculptures; Till minnet av en älv (2020) by Anja Örn, Passage (2011) by Katarina Löfström and Hiljainen vesi /Tyst vatten (2019) by Laura Könönen. The study investigates if any mutual patterns can be seen and if so which, and how the relationship between the sculptures and their spatial context can be described based on Rosalyn Deutsches notion assimilative and divisive. Through analyses and comparison of the three sculptures it has emerged that water in all three public artworks stands as a metaphor for something else, here in form of the consequences of hydropower, the impermanence of time and minorities’ feeling of exclusion and community. Over these serious topics lies too a sense of melancholia. A common interest for the nature also appears and mainly because the artists have chosen to depict water even when it symbolizes something else. But the interest in nature also appears when two of the sculptures is made from natural rock and its characteristics. Furthermore, the study indicates that, despite the complexity in defining a public artwork as place-specific or placeless, all three of the sculptures have a connection with the place. The sculptures can therefore perceive as assimilative although to varying degrees and with element of divisive tendencies.

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