Art, the city and heritage: future and past in contemporary poetics
2021
Adriana Nakamuta
This book is designed to accompany the catalogue of images from the exhibition of the same name staged at Oi Futuro Rio de Janeiro between 25 May and 25 July 2021. This group show of previously unseen work, using various formats, supports and media, made an important contribution to the debate on the role of art in building memory and its relation to the territory of the city, in sensory, material and emotional terms.
More than twenty photographs contained in the special supplement and throughout the book provide a photographic record of the project. The articles, which were the result of interdisciplinary research and reflection, cover a full range of aspects of the cultural and artistic heritage of cities and of the actions, history, disputes and conflicts of which they are composed. This helps us to conceive of the city as a sum of spaces built by way of projects and, also, of the importance of social interaction and survival skills that have generated the collective cultural assets that can be regarded as heritage.
The book invites us to reflect on Brazil’s cities and cultural heritage under the inspiration of an exhibition whose main premise was the fluid nature of the concepts of memory and future in contemporary art. It is from this perspective—of the city as cultural heritage—that the authors invite readers to share their research experiences. The book thus reflects the full complexity of issues relating to cities and heritage in the contemporary world.
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Automatica has been developing cultural projects since 2005, working in the creation, production, curation, management, coordination and consultancy of exhibitions, educational programs, publications and other activities related to artistic production. It works with artists, curators, art critics, art historians, cultural institutions, public and private sponsors. It participates in public notices and awards, and prepares projects for incentive laws in the three spheres of public administration.
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