Abstract
Occupy street; promoting and participating in a Carnival block parade, in a public space, is a gesture with political connotations that invariably go back to the history of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Mokery and resistance against public power and the forms of oppression is expressed in musical compositions, fantasy and in unofficial parades, complaining the burocratics rules and the attempts to privatize the party, express in public-private partnerships that have taken account of King Momo’s festivity in the city. The performative play granted by Carnival, the activism post-demonstrations 2013, as historical and political review and political language, allowed us to yield potentials aesthetics of existence, in a new configuration of the field of identity struggles, as well as of party politics, the conceiving about the conduction of urban public administrations, about the capitalist system and about the possibilities of (sur)living in the caustic reality of the city.
Keywords:
Carnival; artivism; performance; aesthetics of existence