Banca de DEFESA: ANDRE LUIZ GOMES E SILVA

The Crossings between Art, Life, Rebellion and Politics in the Daily Life of the Kasa Invisível
Occupation, in Belo Horizonte

Art, Urban Occupations, Autonomism, Anticapitalism

In this work, we aim to understand the influences of art, its discussions and its historical movements in an
urban occupation, located in the center of Belo Horizonte - the Kasa Invisível. For this, we rescued the
approximation between historical movements of art, such as Realism, Dadaism and Surrealism and their
influence on the Situationists, to thought and historical rebel movements, such as the Paris Commune and
the publication of the Communist Manifesto. We also investigated the artistic character of contemporary
rebel movements, which influenced projects that preceded Kasa, in the city of Belo Horizonte. Kasa
Invisível is a project that was born during the June 2013 revolts in Brazil, within the scene of rebel
movements and groups in the city, and works as a social center, carrying out activities such as festivals,
film screenings, workshops, etc.; it houses production cooperatives and is also housing for low-income
people. It was born in the wake of a series of autonomist, anti-capitalist projects and groups, influenced
by anarchist thought, active in the city since the 1990s. Also to understand how art occupies Kasa, we
describe and analyze several artistic, creative and aesthetic content that occurred at Kasa during this
research.