Processos instáveis

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Maquiagem e a construção de personagens no cinema moderno: estudo do caso Benjamin Button

The o bjective of this dissertation is to present a theoretical essay on the importance of makeup in the creation of characters through the review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a movie directed by David Fincher based on a short-story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This thesis makes an historica loverview of makeup, including a discussion on its evolution and importance to visual arts, as a background to the analyses of the proposed movie

Madeira sobre mar

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Intervenção urbana: possíveis desconstruções do espetáculo cotidiano : jogos, derivas e andarilhagens

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Intervenção urbana: possíveis desconstruções do espetáculo cotidiano : jogos, derivas e andarilhagens

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Fluxus. Prima, durante, dopo

Fluxus è stato definito il più radicale e sperimentale movimento artistico degli anni Sessanta. Dalla prima comparsa ad oggi è stato osannato, analizzato, dimenticato e riscoperto molte volte, tuttora però rimane una delle più grandi incognite critiche della storia dell’arte del Novecento. La ricerca si sviluppa secondo uno schema tripartito: indagare origini, ascendenze e ispirazioni; collocare e contestualizzare il periodo di nascita e sviluppo; esaminare influenze e lasciti. Attraverso un confronto di manifesti, scritti autografi e opere si è cercato di verificare punti di contatto e di continuità tra Fluxus e le Avanguardie Storiche, con particolare riferimento a Futurismo e Dadaismo. Successivamente si è cercato di ricostruire le dinamiche che hanno portato, alla fine degli anni Cinquanta, al definirsi di un terreno fertile dal quale sono germinate esperienze strettamente legate quali Happening, Performance Art e lo stesso Fluxus, del quale si sono ripercorsi i cosiddetti “anni eroici” per evidenziarne le caratteristiche salienti. Nella terza sezione sono state individuate diverse ipotesi di continuazione dell’attitudine Fluxus, dal percorso storico-filologico dei precoci tentativi di musealizzazione, alle eredità dirette e indirette sulle generazioni successive di artisti, fino alla individuazione di idee e concetti la cui attualità rende Fluxus un elemento imprescindibile per la comprensione della cultura contemporanea.

"Dalla parola all’azione": traduzione dell’introduzione al catalogo di una mostra d’arte contemporanea russa

Il presente elaborato consiste in una proposta di traduzione dell’introduzione, opera dalla curatrice Saša Obuchova, al catalogo della mostra "Performans v Rossi: kartografija istorii" [La performance in Russia: una cartografia della sua storia], tenutasi al museo d’arte contemporanea Garaž di Mosca. L’elaborato consta di tre capitoli. Il primo, di carattere generale, descrive le caratteristiche del testo che si è scelto di tradurre, presenta brevemente l’autrice, la struttura del catalogo di cui tale testo fa parte e la mostra per la quale il catalogo è stato pubblicato, e dà infine qualche cenno sulla storia del museo Garaž. Il secondo, di carattere artistico, propone una riflessione sul significato della parola “performance” e una breve sintesi della storia della performance-art in Russia. Infine, nel terzo, si troverà la traduzione del testo "Ot slova k dejstvii" [Dalla parola all’azione] della curatrice della mostra Saša Obuchova, preceduta da un’introduzione al testo e alla traduzione.

Els vídeos d’Olga Diego: una memòria filmada

Olga Diego Freises (Alacant 1969) estudià Belles Arts a les facultats de València (Universitat Politècnica) i d’Altea (Universitat Miguel Hernández), on es titulà el 2006. La seua activitat artística ―crítica, compromesa i innovadora― s’ha orientat bàsicament a la performança, encara que amb un important suport gràfic i escultòric de dibuixos i de maquetes. Com es habitual, Olga Diego fa servir el vídeo com a medi de registre i/o de suport de les accions. En ocasions el vídeo arriba a ser la base o el format de presentació d’una acció. És, doncs, un registre fotogràfic ―foto mòbil que pot esdevenir foto fixa― allò que conserva la memòria del que es féu o del que passà. En ocasions la gravació és manual i en ocasions la càmera va lligada a un artefacte. S’ofereixen, així, visions diferents de l’acció. En ocasions es treballa amb llum de dia i en ocasions amb llum de foc o de focus, oferint també així visions diferents de l’acció. Per tant, el vídeo es treballa en funció del suggeriment, de la claredat expositiva o de l’ambigüitat que s’intenta. Proposem aquí una introducció als vídeos vinculats a algunes de les accions d’Olga Diego desenvolupades a llocs tan diferents com ara Espanya, Sàhara Occidental Libre i Egipte.

Performing Pedagogies and Exploring Embodied Knowledge

Performing Pedagogies was a week-long performance and exhibition series I organized that took place in Kingston, Ontario between March 15th - March 20th 2016. The motivation for this project came from a desire to explore performative modes of experiencing critical, embodied knowledge. The series featured five performances, a long distance collaboration between thirty-one Queen’s undergraduate students and a Vancouver artist-run free school (The School for Eventual Vacancy), a subsequent exhibition, a panel discussion, and a radical performance pedagogy workshop led by co-artistic director of the international performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra. Artists featured included Golboo Amani, Basil AlZeri, Caitlin Chaisson, Justin Langlois, Saul Garcia-Lopez, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Andrew Rabyniuk. By curating examples of performance art that variously incorporated embodied pedagogical interventions, I examined the processes of performance as pedagogy. Performing Pedagogies explored interventions into contemporary contours of neoliberal education paradigms through embodied encounters—fostering conversations about the meanings and limitations of knowledge dissemination and education today and posing questions about possibilities for radical pedagogies, embodied knowledge, and counter curricula.

Performing Pedagogies and Exploring Embodied Knowledge as Curatorial Investigation

Performing Pedagogies was a week-long performance and exhibition series I organized that took place in Kingston, Ontario between March 15th - March 20th 2016. The motivation for this project came from a desire to explore performative modes of experiencing critical, embodied knowledge. The series featured five performances, a long distance collaboration between thirty-one Queen’s undergraduate students and a Vancouver artist-run free school (The School for Eventual Vacancy), a subsequent exhibition, a panel discussion, and a radical performance pedagogy workshop led by co-artistic director of the international performance art troupe, La Pocha Nostra. Artists featured included Golboo Amani, Basil AlZeri, Caitlin Chaisson, Justin Langlois, Saul Garcia-Lopez, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Andrew Rabyniuk. By curating examples of performance art that variously incorporated embodied pedagogical interventions, I examined the processes of performance as pedagogy. Performing Pedagogies explored interventions into contemporary contours of neoliberal education paradigms through embodied encounters—fostering conversations about the meanings and limitations of knowledge dissemination and education today and posing questions about possibilities for radical pedagogies, embodied knowledge, and counter curricula.

Need To Be Adored

Faced with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, I began with the objective of discovering methods for creating art that were still accessible to me. Along the way, I encountered others who had travelled this road before me. Their experiences led me to examine, not only my art, but also my political orientations, my love obligations and my transitioning self. In my varied art pieces, I conjure something from diverse sources and different worldviews, including contemporary feminist performance art and disability cultural theory. My thesis is a project. I make things: puppets, videos and performances, which included the exhibition, Need to be Adored (2014), staged in the digital media lab of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition introduced thirteen of my puppets and a thirty-two-minute looped video. Following the exhibition, I put the puppets away and spent two years reading. Finally, taking my inspiration from Carolyn Ellis’s The Autoethnographic I (Ellis 2004), I turned my processes into words. I wrote out my experiences. I created an alternative text of my identity from an able-bodied cis-identified woman into a disabled trans-feminist artist academic. The writing required an uncomfortably intimate examination of my life. Nothing less than complete honesty would allow me to understand my new location. The resulting text is a lyrical and sometimes whimsical flow of consciousness that invites the reader to imagine what it might be like to engage in such a candid review of everything one holds close to one’s heart. Contained within are all my identities. In this text I let some out. This is a story of unsettling. I am working on my art practices, creating a cast of characters from cloth. Puppets. El becomes the exulted main character of a fictional accounting. She uncovers her queer roots and begins to see that she is at the centre of a very strange geography. Her desire to make film is revealed as she re-remembers her childhood through a disability lens.

Lorraine O'Grady with images of Nerfititi and Deuonia Evangeline projected behind her

Inscription: Verso: "Nefertiti/Deuonia Evangeline" New York.

Need To Be Adored

Faced with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, I began with the objective of discovering methods for creating art that were still accessible to me. Along the way, I encountered others who had travelled this road before me. Their experiences led me to examine, not only my art, but also my political orientations, my love obligations and my transitioning self. In my varied art pieces, I conjure something from diverse sources and different worldviews, including contemporary feminist performance art and disability cultural theory. My thesis is a project. I make things: puppets, videos and performances, which included the exhibition, Need to be Adored (2014), staged in the digital media lab of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The exhibition introduced thirteen of my puppets and a thirty-two-minute looped video. Following the exhibition, I put the puppets away and spent two years reading. Finally, taking my inspiration from Carolyn Ellis’s The Autoethnographic I (Ellis 2004), I turned my processes into words. I wrote out my experiences. I created an alternative text of my identity from an able-bodied cis-identified woman into a disabled trans-feminist artist academic. The writing required an uncomfortably intimate examination of my life. Nothing less than complete honesty would allow me to understand my new location. The resulting text is a lyrical and sometimes whimsical flow of consciousness that invites the reader to imagine what it might be like to engage in such a candid review of everything one holds close to one’s heart. Contained within are all my identities. In this text I let some out. This is a story of unsettling. I am working on my art practices, creating a cast of characters from cloth. Puppets. El becomes the exulted main character of a fictional accounting. She uncovers her queer roots and begins to see that she is at the centre of a very strange geography. Her desire to make film is revealed as she re-remembers her childhood through a disability lens.

Theatre History and Historiography Ethics, Evidence and Truth

This collection of essays is the first time a group of theatre historians have come together to consider the challenge of applying ethical thinking to attempts to truthfully represent the past. Topics include the life of the celebrated Restoration actor Thomas Betterton, the little-known records of hitherto forgotten women involved in Victorian theatre, amateur theatricals enjoyed by the British army in colonial India, the loss of a pioneering arts centre for African and Caribbean culture, performance art in Wales and present-day community arts in Northern Ireland. While confronting such difficult issues as the instability of evidence and the unreliability of memory, the contributors offer fresh perspectives and innovative strategies for fulfilling their ethical responsibility to the lived experience of the past.