A bolero over ruins: Mapa Teatro’s poetic responses to urban renewal

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https://doi.org/10.60001/ae.n46.10

Abstract

This paper presents some works from Mapa Teatro artists’ laboratory carried out in response to an urban renewal project in the late 1990s in Bogotá. The project of Parque Tercer Milenio, which displaced around 12,000 people living in the city center, led the group to collaborate with former residents of the neighborhood, forming an experimental community. The interventions by Mapa Teatro are brought here as a way to contemplate how it is possible to respond poetically to the brutalization of urban spaces.

Published

2024-01-18