摘要：This article analyses viral Brazilian graffiti artists’ work pieces on the 2014 World Cup. It aims to unveil their political perspectives and to identify if they were able to express civic imagination. The pieces were performed on walls, fences, houses, buildings’ facades, and streets across Brazil’s biggest cities. Those taggers joined demonstrations against public investments on the implementation of the mega-event and its side effects, headed by the wider Não vai ter Copa (No World Cup) movement. Part of their pieces was photographed and gathered by people from all around the country on the Facebook public page Movimento de Decoração Anti-Copa (Anti-World Cup Decoration Movement). The study analyzes all the 108 graffiti pieces’ content posted on that web page. The conclusion is that the Brazilian’s artivism was an actual form of civic imagination transformed into political participation deployed from the point of view of their own cultural and social backgrounds.
