Artists in public space

Allowed Activities

Artistic Activities with Economic Gain in Public Spaces, Permitted by Regulations

They are those carried out by an individual or group that temporarily occupies the public space, and whose main objective is to create, recreate or promote artistic manifestations that circulate regularly in it. These generate an added cultural value to the urban space, and, in return, they can receive economic compensation, without involving ticketing, attendance rights, or advertising.

This typology includes artists who work with elements of music, literature, dance, theater, circus, visual arts and photography, with strong links to urban and rural popular cultures.

  • Dancers: They perform short dance numbers, use different dance and musical genres, and usually use sound amplification.
  • Singers: The activity focuses on the use of their own voices. Some use only the sound of their voice; others use amplifiers with musical tracks or wind instruments (brass and wood), strings (acoustic and electric) or percussion, played by themselves.
  • Instrument Performers:
    • Individual: A person who performs musical pieces with wind, string or percussion musical instruments and they usually use amplifiers.
    • Groups: Duets or trios of maximum 3 members who play different musical instruments. They perform using amplifiers or only the power of their instruments.
  • Drawers:
    • Cartoonist: They create drawings on paper or light cardboard, applying different dry techniques such as pencil, graphite, sanguine, charcoal or ink.
    • Drawers Who Use Pencils and Charcoal: They draw or reproduce images using grease pencils, graphite, sanguine, sepia, charcoal, colored pencils, ink or drypoint on various media such as paper, cardboard, glass, acetate and even acrylic sheets.
    • Drawers Who Use Chalk:They reproduce two-dimensional images such as photographs on sidewalks, streets or walls in the authorized urban spaces.
  • Painters:
    • Painters Who Use Aerosol: They make spray paintings, using portable media such as cardboard, paper, acetate and acrylic sheets.
    • Painters Who Use Oils and/or Acrylics: They paint and/or reproduce images or abstract compositions on prepared cardboard or canvases, with or without a frame.
  • Photographers: They capture images by using a camera.
  • Sculptors: “They create objects in real time, unique, durable or ephemeral, without material utility, using techniques of addition, such as modeling in soft materials, or subtraction, such as carving in hard materials and assembly, which is the articulation of various materials.”
  • Living Statues: They put their bodies in function of what they represent. They use costumes, makeup, and props with reference to a character. They use pedestals to stand on them; some artists use amplifiers to emit sounds or background music.
  • Circus Artists: They perform numbers that involve acrobatic techniques, juggling, balancing, tightrope walking, among others, as well as clown numbers. The activity can be carried out individually or in groups and should not include fire, animals, or sharp elements. Some use amplified sound.
  • Theater Groups: They perform a stage work that is characterized by being conceived to be performed in unconventional spaces, exalting gestures, costumes and can include stage design and prop elements, as well as sound amplification or live music.
  • Puppeteers: They use puppets or marionettes for the presentation of puppet plays or theater acts or object animation. Some use mobile theaters to perform the presentations and sound amplification. The activity can be carried out individually or in groups.
  • Mimes: They are characterized by representing or imitating characters based on gestures and movement, without resorting to the spoken word. They interact with passers-by, spectators and the urban environment.
  • Performers: A person who performs acts based on particular characteristics or bodily skills. They can use objects to enrich their acts, they have qualities of virtuosity regarding their skills and/or bodily characteristics.
  • Storytellers: People who, through words, transmit stories or tales from the oral tradition, their own creation or those of other authors.
  • Poets: They create and/or reproduce poetic texts that they declaim in the public space.
  • Interdisciplinary Activities: Merger of two or more artistic activities from the categories mentioned above. The activity can be carried out individually or in groups.

Note:
The artistic activities with economic gain in public spaces permitted in the regulation do not contemplate handicrafts because they are traditional cultural expressions.

Classification of Artistic Activities According to the Impacts Generated

Artistic activities are classified by the impact they generate in public spaces, according to factors such as sound emission, air pollutants, arrangement of elements in the space and agglomeration of people.

High Impact:

Any artistic activity that uses sound amplifiers and requires the deployment of elements in the space to perform the artistic activity. Use of aerosols in portable media (cardboard, paper, acetate and acrylic sheets).

Medium Impact:

Artistic activities that do not require sound amplifiers. They may have elements such as easels, benches, work materials and pieces made in situ, to adapt their work area.

Low Impact:

Artistic activities that do not require the deployment of elements in the space to carry out the artistic activity, nor sound amplifiers.