Nelson Brissac is a philosopher, working on questions concerning art and urbanism. He has a PHD in philosophy at Université de Paris I – Sorbonne and teaches at PUC in São Paulo, Brasil. He is the organizer and curator of Arte/Cidade, a project of urban interventions in São Paulo, since 1994. Some of his books: Arte/Cidade – Intervenções Urbanas, Senac, 2002; Arte/Cidade Zona Leste, Dardo, Spain, 2010; Paisagens Críticas – Robert Smithson: arte, ciência e indústria, Senac / Educ, 2010. He is now working in ZL Vórtice, a territorial research project on the east zone of São Paulo.
In this seminar Nelson Brissac reviews artists’ interventions into the city of São Paulo as part of his Arte/Cidade project, and reveals some of the issues that characterize its inhabitants’ everyday experiences and perception. Touching upon the 2014 World Cup and Brazil’s widespread urban protests, Brissac introduces extraordinary artist projects by Vito Acconci, Rubens Mano,…
