Cidade pós-Olímpica: o Carnaval Pirata e as reformas do Centro do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

During the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Cycle, different musical and carnival groups occupied downtown streets in an activist ways. While constructions changed landscapes and increased rents: unofficial street parties and free parties erupted in front of the city that was transformed. We are investigating here the appropriations of this movement in the early years of Boulevard Olímpico and its surrounding areas. Invading that exact area of downtown by the sea, this manifestations share space with tourist, sailors, ancestral groups and famous brands. Being outside of the traditional port’s manifestations and the idealized project of the Olympic City, those pirate festivities began to perform, in that area, secrets attacks, usually by night and in a non-stop walking around way. Performing in a bohemian and coastal Rio de Janeiro, they draw crowds to the territory in a different aesthetic from the initially projected by the Olympic Project. From a drift along Boulervard, Praça XV, Praça Marechal Âncora and surrounding areas, I seek to understand the new characters, conflicts and purpose of these groups that show another lifestyle in a city center that was transformed. The work develops from the concepts of imaginary, consumption and performance, also understand visuality e corpography as investigative methods.