Title: Uma história das procissões organizadas por artistas no Brasil e no contexto internacional (1931-2017)
Abstract: Based on an analysis of the representation of processions by Brazilian artists in 20th century paintings, the research analyzes the development of processions organized by artists as performance in the public spaces of cities in Brazil and abroad.In presenting several examples, the author describes the processions organized by artists as a performance of resistance in Brazil in the public domain before, during and after the military dictatorship.In tracing this history through examples chronologically since 1931 and a series of 25 interviews with Brazilian and international artists (transcribed in the first appendix), the thesis seeks to demonstrate the wide variety of themes and contexts that motivate artists to organize processions and the forms these can take.Chapter 3 analyzes the possibilities of public participation in the processions drawing comparisons between Brazilian and international realities with the recent theory of relational aesthetics.Chapter 4 introduces the variety of documentation and sculptural elements that emerge from ephemeral events and their presentation in exhibitions.Chapter 5 raises questions about time and agency in participatory art projects, making it clear that the processions and parades organized by these cultural agents attempt to maintain their critical potential, while they have also become a means of institutional support.The second appendix lists works for a possible exhibition.