Dissenting Exhibitions by Artists (1968-1998). Reframing Marxist Exhibition Legacy.

The goal of this thesis is to look at the critical and dissenting value of exhibitions through the examination of four cases studies, based on six exhibitions taking place between 1968 and 1998 in Latin and North America. The exhibitions belong to the history of modern and contemporary exhibitions and curating, a field of research and study that has only started to be written about in the last two decades. This investigation contributes to it, in its creation of new genealogies by connecting previously overlooked antecedents, or by proposing new relations within established lineages, at the intersection of a specific historiography; to address exhibitions, a tradition of artists acting as curators and an emerging history of curating. The examined exhibitions were put together by artists or artist collectives and were placed in a liminal position between artistic and curatorial practice. All the cases presented a distinct proposal in relation to art and social change, a fact that connects them, in their aims and modus operandi, to a Marxist and neo-Marxist critical and transformative legacy. The cases address the following connections: exhibition as political site (Tucumán Arde, 1968); exhibition as social space (The People’s Choice (Arroz con Mango), 1981); exhibition as encounter (Rooms with a view, We the People, Art/Artifact, 1987-88); and exhibition as an exchange situation (El Museo de la Calle, 1998-2001). Key to their analysis is the concept of dissensus, as put forward by Jacques Rancière. Within this theoretical framework, these exhibitions put into practice particular cases of dissensus in a given distribution of the sensible. All of them tried to deal with their thematic concerns by performing them as a praxis. They dissent with the way in which reality was formatted in their historical moment and challenge the exhibition medium itself opening new ways of doing and making in the exhibition field. Therefore, in this thesis the dissenting value of exhibitions is closely related to its main features as a medium, namely their temporality, heterogeneity and flexibility, which contribute to their potential for creative analysis and propositioning. In the case of these exhibitions, this capability is brought into play for institutional interrogation, for offering alternative cultural narratives and also for inspiring new imaginary realms.

Ficção e encenação : o desenho como narrativa visual

Tese de doutoramento, Belas-Artes (Ciências da Arte), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, 2014

Io Ancora Sono l’amore: algumas considerações sobre amor e adultério femininos no filme de Luca Guadagnino

Este trabalho analisa a protagonista do filme “Io sono l’amore”a partir do imaginário ocidental que impeliu a identidade das mulheres para o amor. Porno- tropic russo a ser inseminado pela civilização italiana, Emma será a propriedade erotizada que encontra no adultério a possibilidade de transgredir contra a identidadeque sustenta. Porém, se a infidelidade ameaça a ordem para qual as mulheres servem de base, elaainda colaboracom a inteligibilidade que liga as mulheres ao imaginário amoroso dito livre.

Habiter l’enfance approche de l’habitat dans les premiers récits d’Eugène Savitzkaya

L‘auteur entreprend l‘approche de l‘importance particulière du rapport aux espaces habités ou inhabités dans l‘imaginaire et la construction narrative des textes fictionnels de l‘écrivain belge francophone contemporain Eugène Savitzkaya de Mentir (1977) jusqu‘à En vie (1994). Il s‘agit de souligner la pertinence de l‘habitat en tant que support des imaginaires de l‘enfance et de la poétisation du quotidien. L‘espace s‘avère en effet un repère symbolique et poétique chez Savitzkaya ; ce qui lui permet de s‘exprimer et d‘exprimer son enfance sur un mode autofictionnel.

Ambivalent Islam: the identity construction of Muslims under Portuguese colonial rule

This article wishes to contribute to the study of the historical processes that have been spotting Muslim populations as favourite targets for political analysis and governance. Focusing on the Portuguese archives, civil as well as military, the article tries to uncover the most conspicuous identity representations (mainly negative or ambivalent) that members of Portuguese colonial apparatus built around Muslim communities living in African colonies, particularly in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The paper shows how these culturally and politically constructed images were related to the more general strategies by which Portuguese imagined their own national identity, both as ‘European’ and as ‘coloniser’ or ‘imperial people’. The basic assumption of this article is that policies enforced in a context of inter-ethnic and religious competition are better understood when linked to the identity strategies inherent to them. These are conceived as strategic constructions aimed at the preservation, the protection and the imaginary expansion of the subject, who looks for groups to be included in and out-groups to reject, exclude, aggress or eliminate. We think that most of the inter-ethnic relationships and conflicts, as well as the very experience of ethnicity, are born from this identity matrix.

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(Résumé de l'ouvrage) La chamane sibérienne Darima Boudaraevna se livre ici dans un entretien exceptionnel, traduit du russe et du bouriate. Elle raconte son parcours et son initiation de chamane, ainsi que sa pratique du chamanisme au quotidien. Investie d'un rôle à la fois social, psychologique et spirituel, elle vient en aide à ceux qui s'adressent à elle, que ce soit pour l'achat d'une voiture, la guérison de proches ou la recherche d'une âme au seuil du royaume des morts. Les descriptions des perceptions de la chamane au cours des rituels et lors de ses voyages dans l'avenir et le passé sont saisissantes. Cet entretien est accompagné de textes situant le chamanisme sibérien dans son contexte et dans son rapport aux autres religions.

La Vie d'aventures sur terre et sur mer

Variante(s) de titre : Journal des voyages

La lettre et la carte de Toscanelli sur la route des Indes par l'Ouest, adressées en 1474 au Portugais Fernam Martins et transmises plus tard à Christophe Colomb : étude critique sur l'authenticité et la valeur de ces documents et sur les sources des idées cosmographiques de Colomb, suivie des divers textes de la lettre de 1474 / trad., annot. et fac-sim., par Henry Vignaud,...

Collection : Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l'histoire de la géographie depuis le XIIIe jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle ; 18

De orbe novo : les huit décades / de Pierre Martyr Anghiera ; trad. du latin, avec notes et commentaires, par Paul Gaffarel,...

Collection : Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l'histoire de la géographie depuis le XIIIe jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle ; 21

Le livre de la description des pays / de Gilles Le Bouvier, dit Berry... ; publié pour la première fois avec une introduction et des notes, et suivi de l'"Itinéraire brugeois" et de la "Table de Velletri" et de plusieurs autres documents géographiques, inédits ou mal connus du XVe siècle, recueillis et commentés par le Dr E.-T. Hamy,...

Collection : Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l'histoire de la géographie depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle ; 22

Le livre de la description des pays / de Gilles Le Bouvier, dit Berry... ; publié pour la première fois avec une introduction et des notes, et suivi de l'"Itinéraire brugeois" et de la "Table de Velletri" et de plusieurs autres documents géographiques, inédits ou mal connus du XVe siècle, recueillis et commentés par le Dr E.-T. Hamy,...

Collection : Recueil de voyages et de documents pour servir à l'histoire de la géographie depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle ; 22

Hokitika, Nouvelle-Zélande, femmes acclamant le prince de Galles : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59958

Le prince de Galles en Nouvelles-Zélande [l'hommage des piroguiers] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59959

Marlborough [Nouvelle-Zélande] des femmes acclamant le prince de Galles : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59960