Streetnotes is a peer-reviewed journal for the interdisciplinary study of the city, its lifeways and social relations, with a special concern for the cultural and aesthetic forms that arise through its traffic.
A privileged center for the sign, the media, and the code, the city is the place par excellence for visual consumption, providing a sense of simultaneity and global interconnectedness. This is particularly clear in times of mega-events The World Soccer Cup, The Olympic Games, The World Youth Day , when host cities receive an extraordinary influx of foreign visitors and enter in a hyper-mediated trance with the spotlights of all the TV cameras of the world. In preparation for the and mega-events, the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has experienced a permanent shock of agenda, characterized by important, accelerated, urban renewal projects accompanied by population removal and slums pacification.
With the official assertion of Rio as a global city for sports and other mega-events comes a hegemonic will to blend festive public space with advertising. In Rio de Janeiro, non-stop partying provides a convenient escape from conflict, protest, and dissent.
According to this project, the port area of the City of Rio would be renovated. That would result in the displacement of families from their homes. Without prior warning, their homes were marked for removal. A series of rights violations took place, triggering a strong public reaction, which resulted in a legal action that stopped the removal process. Chief among them was the Favelarte Institute.
This article aims to discuss the formation of a motivational landscape by looking at paintings; stencils; and religious and nonreligious graffiti in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the context of the Olympics. The process of artification at work in various expressions of so-called street arts is key for understanding the use that different social actors young evangelicals or not, City Council, NGOs make of this artistic expression.
