As relações entre arte contemporânea e marketing cultural: CowParade Porto Alegre 2010

Abstract

This research addresses the relationships that form between contemporary art and cultural marketing through the private sponsorship exemplified by CowParade Porto Alegre. The cultural marketing has the contemporary art as a tool for building the image of a company, brand or product. Therefore, we attempted to briefly contextualize the evolution of financial support modes for cultural projects in Brazil in order to think about the growing interest of private initiative in sponsoring artistic events. A debate on the definitions related to the market, marketing, culture and cultural policies was considered as a theoretical basis, as well as concepts related to the system of arts and symbolic goods. Once the collection of information from the CowParade Porto Alegre and interviews (expectations and impressions) with artists and other participants of the event were done, an analysis to demonstrate the peculiarities of the event was carried out, using it as an example of the implications of private sponsorship in contemporary art.