Interview: Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho

Interview given to Fernando Espósito on July 8, 2016

Abstract

The book Ciudades Sudamericanas como Arenas Culturales (South American Cities as cultural rings), organized by the architect Adrián Gorelik and the anthropologist Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, through many perspectives on urban cultural life in different cities of South America, discusses the city as a place of the germination of artistic tendencies, intellectual projects and political-ideological disputes. The book is presented through an interview with Fernanda Arêas Peixoto, organizer and one of the authors, and the sociologist Maria Alice Rezende de Carvalho, also an author. It is about launching multiple perspectives on urban life in the south of the continent through episodes of different cities, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first. São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Recife, Montevideo, Santiago de Chile, among others, are observed through different clippings, some related to a place, as a street or a neighborhood, and others related to cultural production itself, as theatrical and television plays. The scenes and urban laboratories offered by each of the essays function as species of observation devices capable of bringing the reader closer to the many layers that constitutes the city.

Keywords: cultural rings; urban life; cultural production.