Linguagens subversivas: a pixação como representação da identidade e da memória dos jovens nas cidades

Abstract

In the big cities daily life it’s getting more and more common to see Urban Interventionism through Brazilian tagging. This phenomenon is an intrinsic and imagery interventionism in the Brazilian cities. The drawings and letters already common in front of buildings and city walls, though spread everywhere, are not fully understood by all individuals of our society. This kind of interventionism has its own language, through writing, often done in a stylized way. There are many discussions around the borders that delimit it, aiming to differentiate it in stylistically, aesthetically, technically and ideologically ways. This work is justified by the fact that, as a form of expression, the Brazilian tagging lays on the thought of the way the cities were built, almost always under a diverging dualism that result in social injustices. The methodology used was a qualitative approach, focusing on ethnography. It was done a literature review, as well as a field research, as interviews and observation method. With this work, we can conclude that the Brazilian taggers modify the common meanings of urban facilities and spaces, producing new ways of communication and expression, which have an ideological and communicative side, transforming urban spaces into environments of dialogue, activism and opinion.