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In the same way as myths, art allows us to perceive the mystery of the world, but is also provides lucidity, pleasure and joy. Through it we can penetrate the unknown, in search of partial answers. Poverty is often only considered in its tangible dimension, although the intangibility of the symbolic and spiritual is just as necessary. Art emerges through these elements, creating new links of solidarity, composed of the imagination and poetry vital to knowledge of the other and oneself. Art can play a fundamental role in restoring structure to damaged social fabric. These ideas give rise to proposals (defence of the right to cultural citizenship, strengthening cultural identity in the face of globalisation, building a culture of peace, etc.), illustrated by contemporary experiences.

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Experience Reports	Participants and Interested Persons.

:: Articles ::

Art and Cultural Identity in the Construction of a Cooperative World
:: Hamilton Faria :: Pedro Garcia :: February 2007 ::

This article shows how art can have a fundamental role in the reorganization of social fabric that has been undone. Art allows us, as the myths say, to touch the mystery of the world, but also to know lucidity, pleasure, and joy. It allows us to penetrate into the unknown in search of partial answers. Poverty is often only considered in its material dimension. However, symbolic and spiritual possessions are just as necessary. It is through them that art emerges, thus creating new links of solidarity, made of imagination and of the indispensable poetry in the knowledge of others and of (...)

Committed Art x Art for Art’s Sake :: August 2005 ::

Does art have a function? The text presents a few questions: Can we say that art has a function? Or its only compromise is with the process of artistic creation, as said by the defendors of the "Art for the Art"? Could the artist be isolated of his social, politic, economic and pshycologic relations at the moment of creation? Maybe the solution is neither the defense of a politically engaged art, neither the belief that the art exists as a transcendental and isolated concept, but the affirmation of art's possibility to create new metaphors, new visions of the world, and new ways of (...)

The World of Art
:: Marilena Chauí :: August 2005 ::

A summary of the ideas of Marilena Chaui on art in her book "An Invitation to Philosophy" (Unity 8 - Chapter 3) THE WORLD OF ART The World's Novelty Marilena Chaui thinks that art is 'the world's novelty' and the artist "the one who seeks the world in its nascent state." Art permits the creation of a new reality through an already known world, transforming this world and filling it with new meanings. Art and Technique Classification of 'techniques' or 'arts' followed the standards of antique society, founded on slavery and its depreciation of manual work. Therefore, the arts were (...)

Human Rights and the Privatization of Culture in Brazil
:: Bianca dos Santos :: July 2005 ::

Human Rights and the Privatization of Culture in Brazil Human Rights must be understood as a system of objects and actions able to initiate and consolidate ways of standing up for human dignity. People's reaction toward injustice can also be expressed in a subjective manner. Art is one of these ways of reaction, once it describes and transforms our reality through sensibility since it has the power of waking up people's consciousness. Furthermore, art creation and access to works of art are guaranteed by the Declaration of Human Rights and by the Brazilian Constitution. However, in (...)

Development through Art :: December 1998 ::

It is difficult to recount all that happened during this meeting… but I will try. The participants were all invited personally, one by one, without any public announcement being made. About fifty people registered, but there were already 62 of us in the Polis rooms the first day (...)

No Alliance without Artists!
:: Michel Sauquet :: July 1998 ::

This text shows the artist's responsibility in the contemporary world. It is about affirming the artist's social responsibility and reinforcing cultural identities in the context of globalization. This memo concerns the international meeting of Itaperica da Serra, organized by Hamilton Faria and Pedro Garcia, Brazilian facilitators of the Artists workshop of the Alliance, on the theme of the artist's responsibility in the contemporary world. The main themes considered were: affirming the artist's social responsibility, reinforcing cultural identities in a context of globalization, (...)

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