Participatory Sculpture, a possible understanding of current public art

Abstract

In this article we propose to reflect on the flows generated between artistic action, sculpture, and communities. However, we question what participatory sculpture is and whether it will be related to public art. Based on the research developed, participatory sculpture is an artistic genre intimately articulated with political and cultural citizenships, that is, structured with the practices and ideas of a community, population, class or social group, in relation to the urban public space of the city. City. It is, therefore, a space for open dialogue between the artistic object and the citizen that passes, namely, through questions of meaning, sociocultural articulation of identity definition and plastic sensibility, with the aim of carrying out a joint work. Considering the systematic survey of the local cultural heritage, it is intended to identify and address the influences that were or are at the origin of the cultural heritage of the central area of ??the country (Castelo Branco district) and whose identity traces were established beyond that same demarcation. The collective memories of communities are considered decisive and fundamental in the identification and creation of new languages ??in the participatory artistic field. With this practice, we verify the introduction of a transformation in the way public art, sculpture, is seen, since the artistic value of the work ceased to reside in the object itself and began to manifest itself in a process of social interaction that results from the connection between the artist and the audience. Learning to observe sculpture is to understand the context, to locate oneself in the broader social space, based on artistic language, enabling all citizens to be recipients of their own culture. From the results we can conclude that in the relationship with sculpture, the community is associated with a type of practices that seek an involvement with the social context. The pedagogical intervention of sculpture in the process focuses on aspects of the construction of the citizen's identity, his knowledge, the development of his conscience, his thinking, his attitudes and abilities, capable of meeting the understanding of the situations in his complexity.