The Displacement of Art: The Emptiness of Museums and the Ephemeral Art Production on the Streets

Abstract

Contemporary practices articulate artistic creation around collective processes that have streets and cities as the privileged locus of instauration. This study seeks to reflect on the transformations that have impacted the art in the contemporary scene, from the understanding that the art museum is a refuge and the place of encounter with the artistic object. In our formulation, we argue that the artistic object is evidenced only as a memory or relic of the moment of installation of art in the creation of the artist, unlike what happens with the collective art that takes place in the streets and that is presented as a effective possibility of encounter with art in natura. We seek to anchor our reflections in the thinking of theorists and artists such as Harold Rosenberg, Allan Kaprow, Ferreira Gullar, Andreas Huyssen, among others.