A pixação como forma de expressão social na cidade de Maceió: uma análise cultural e comunicacional

Abstract

The present work makes use of the pixação movement with “X” present in the city of Maceió as a catalyst object in the search for reflection on its communicational and cultural aspects. The research focuses on the production of meanings from the contact of the Pixo movement with the urban space, in a perspective that goes through questions about the term "culture" and its implications (CHAUI, 2018), in addition to making use of theories such as the sociosemiotics addressed by Landowski (2014) which deals with the continuity of meaning beyond texts, and also in the observation of the relationship with space as an alternative surface for exchanging information and dialogues (LEMOS, 2009). The development of the work makes a reading of the signs present in the social interactions that the manifestation creates in its itinerary within the city's reliefs, through the use of photographic records, direct observation of the environment and the crossing of collected materials with the theoretical framework relevant to the object analysis. What is revealed, therefore, is a holistic interpretation of their motivations, between the lines and reflections, the result of a deeper reading of the results that this interaction produces in the coexistence of urban and social space, in order to generate a broad understanding of the role of graffiti as a tool for legitimate cultural and communicational expression. Therefore, what is built from this research is the contact with another way of experiencing and approaching urban spaces, more specifically in the city of Maceió, from a marginalized perspective, which exerts a task through a kind of "language ” in friction with urban space, which reflects popular cultural traits, specific social contexts and which ends up proposing a vast content that goes through discussions related to space, arguments regarding the right to public space, to expression as a place of marginal speech and the various debates about forms of counter-hegemonic movements, among other discussions that can be read in their lines and between the lines of their dull risks.