Medeleven

Medeleven was a practice-based research work that challenged conventional notions of how audiences ‘experience’ contemporary dance. It resulted in a 40 minute ‘experiential’ performance that inverted the traditional ‘passive’ presentation paradigm by situating the audience centrally within the creative process. The ‘traditional presentation paradigm’ was inverted in numerous ways including: asking the audience onstage with the performers, placing swings onstage for the audience to play on during the performance and guiding the audience through backstage corridors before entering onstage – all of which added elements of physicality, agency and liminality to the performance not usually available to audience members of contemporary dance. Five dancers moved throughout the space allowing the audience to choose where and how they engaged with this work and the swings were utilised both as a performance space and for audience seating. In addition to these spatial variations, the quadraphonic soundscore created distinct ‘environments’ throughout the stage space that varied individual experience possibilities. By positing performance as an experiential phenomenon, the pivotal objective of this work was to create a live-art experience that extended its performativity to include audience members as active meaning-makers, challenging both their role within this paradigm and their expectations of contemporary dance. The work produced strong responses from the audience with surveys indicating the presentation format, as well as the construction of the work, changed audience experience and ability to connect with the dance work. The research suggested that, in addition to existing research on dance audiences, barriers to engagement with contemporary dance may include how the art is constructed and where the audience is positioned within that creative framework. The research builds upon artistic practices being undertaken throughout the world that challenge the notion of existing ‘passive’ performance paradigms via creative ‘engagement’ with audience.

A fúria do comentário: hipertrofia hermenêutica na era da mimesis

Esta tese pretende discutir a história da modernidade como a história do abandono do corpo. A era moderna é a era da mimesis e, como tal, faz da interpretação um componente necessário do horizonte histórico imposto por ela mesma. A interpretação veio para ficar: mas as sucessivas tentativas de apropriação do mundo pelos conceitos anestesiaram os sentidos do homem moderno. Os excessos hermenêuticos contribuíram para um empobrecimento da experiência da arte. A pós-modernidade se abre, para nós, como um novo horizonte histórico, e oferta-se como oportunidade para recuperarmos aquilo que perdemos: o nosso corpo, os nossos próprios sentidos.

La semilla del arte en el arte infantil

One of the hardest criticism to my doctor investigation, made by a local professor considered as authority in arts, was that I was comparing Art, with capital “A”, and infant art. In that moment he remarked to me that Art have nothing in common with infant art and the last one is a discussed concept. That remark forces me to reflect about de direction of my study, but over all it confront me with mi own sense. I am one of the persons who defend the infant expression in his art value, therefore, instead of avoiding comparison, I decided to declare my posture and center my investigation in the confrontation between

L'exposition virtuelle : nouvelle forme de diffusion et de représentation des œuvres

Depuis longtemps déjà, les arts visuels se démarquent par leurs rapports proches quoique créatifs avec les développements technologiques des sociétés modernes. Pour les musées, Internet constitue une opportunité de rejoindre des publics qui s’avèrent de prime abord moins accessibles. Ce nouvel acteur dans le monde de l'art occupe une place croissante dans la présentation des oeuvres tout en jouant un rôle déterminant dans la diffusion et donc dans le retentissement qu'elles ont auprès de publics aux attentes changeantes. Alors que le musée diffusait autrefois ses collections et connaissances par les expositions et les catalogues, le cyberespace est aujourd’hui un nouveau lieu public qu’il lui convient d’investir. L’internaute est souvent isolé dans sa quête d’une « trouvaille » parmi la diversité de l’offre technologique. Nous proposons l’image alternative du flâneur comme métaphore opérationnelle afin d’analyser la relation entre l’internaute et l’exposition. Les oeuvres sont transposées dans le virtuel par le médium numérique, le même langage qui sous-tend l’exposition dans son ensemble, un transfert dont les implications sont nombreuses. La reproduction, par sa nature désacralisée, autorise la manipulation virtuelle. C’est une nouvelle forme de participation qui est exigée des spectateurs, non pas en termes d’acquisition rationnelle de connaissances, mais de manière ludoéducative, par cette même manipulation de l’image. Dans le but de souligner l’authenticité de l’oeuvre originale par la présentation de son équivalent numérique, l’exposition virtuelle est souvent médiatrice et documentaire avant tout, privilégiant l’observation technologique didactique.

Experiência em arte-educação: importâncias, relações e sentidos

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Ler, dizer, produzir sentido: jovens e adultos construindo significados diante da leitura de imagens

Pós-graduação em Artes - IA

Videocirurgia na criança: estado da arte. Experiência com 1408 procedimentos no Instituto da Criança "Pedro de Alcântara"

A videocirurgia em Cirurgia Pediátrica encontra um imenso campo de aplicações ainda, infelizmente, pouco explorado. São poucos os serviços que utilizam rotineiramente essa via de acesso e são escassas as referências nacionais publicadas. O Instituto da Criança do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (ICr) há uma década e meia a utiliza e hoje a videocirurgia é a via de primeira escolha para tratar, entre outras doenças, o refluxo gastresofagiano, a colecistopatia calculosa, o testículo não palpável e o megaesôfago. Neste artigo relataremos a experiência em videocirurgia pediátrica do ICr, adquirida com 1408 pacientes operados, para divulgar e popularizar esta via de acesso, útil e benéfica para um grande número de situações e ainda subutilizada em Cirurgia Pediátrica.

Self-reported alcohol consumption and its association with adherence and outcome of antiretroviral therapy in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption leading to morbidity and mortality affects HIV-infected individuals. Here, we aimed to study self-reported alcohol consumption and to determine its association with adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and HIV surrogate markers. METHODS: Cross-sectional data on daily alcohol consumption from August 2005 to August 2007 were analysed and categorized according to the World Health Organization definition (light, moderate or severe health risk). Multivariate logistic regression models and Pearson's chi(2) statistics were used to test the influence of alcohol use on endpoints. RESULTS: Of 6,323 individuals, 52.3% consumed alcohol less than once a week in the past 6 months. Alcohol intake was deemed light in 39.9%, moderate in 5.0% and severe in 2.8%. Higher alcohol consumption was significantly associated with older age, less education, injection drug use, being in a drug maintenance programme, psychiatric treatment, hepatitis C virus coinfection and with a longer time since diagnosis of HIV. Lower alcohol consumption was found in males, non-Caucasians, individuals currently on ART and those with more ART experience. In patients on ART (n=4,519), missed doses and alcohol consumption were positively correlated (P<0.001). Severe alcohol consumers, who were pretreated with ART, were more often off treatment despite having CD4+ T-cell count <200 cells/microl; however, severe alcohol consumption per se did not delay starting ART. In treated individuals, alcohol consumption was not associated with worse HIV surrogate markers. CONCLUSIONS: Higher alcohol consumption in HIV-infected individuals was associated with several psychosocial and demographic factors, non-adherence to ART and, in pretreated individuals, being off treatment despite low CD4+ T-cell counts.

Cuerpo, arte, experiencia e investigación. "Problemas de corporalidad"

En este artículo comentaremos las principales discusiones surgidas en la Mesa N° 15 "Problemas de corporalidad" desarrollada en el IX Congreso Argentino y IV Latinoamericano de Educación Física y Ciencias, en la UNLP. En este grupo de trabajo se recibieron ponencias que versaron sobre la cuestión de la corporalidad en la práctica artística, incluyendo fundamentalmente reflexiones relativas a la danza, el teatro, la performance, la música, la danza-terapia y la educación corporal. Se puso énfasis en la generación de debates, discusiones y reflexiones que tocaran a todos los expositores o a grupos de ellos, posibilitando delimitar puntos de encuentro y divergencias entre sus enfoques. Las discusiones surgidas estuvieron atravesados por el hecho de que casi todos los trabajos compartían una característica: el ser producto de la reflexión sobre la propia práctica. Esto puso en el centro del debate las reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre experiencia e investigación, y los diálogos que se generan entre el hacer investigación desde y sobre la práctica

Cuerpo, arte, experiencia e investigación. "Problemas de corporalidad"

En este artículo comentaremos las principales discusiones surgidas en la Mesa N° 15 "Problemas de corporalidad" desarrollada en el IX Congreso Argentino y IV Latinoamericano de Educación Física y Ciencias, en la UNLP. En este grupo de trabajo se recibieron ponencias que versaron sobre la cuestión de la corporalidad en la práctica artística, incluyendo fundamentalmente reflexiones relativas a la danza, el teatro, la performance, la música, la danza-terapia y la educación corporal. Se puso énfasis en la generación de debates, discusiones y reflexiones que tocaran a todos los expositores o a grupos de ellos, posibilitando delimitar puntos de encuentro y divergencias entre sus enfoques. Las discusiones surgidas estuvieron atravesados por el hecho de que casi todos los trabajos compartían una característica: el ser producto de la reflexión sobre la propia práctica. Esto puso en el centro del debate las reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre experiencia e investigación, y los diálogos que se generan entre el hacer investigación desde y sobre la práctica

Cuerpo, arte, experiencia e investigación. "Problemas de corporalidad"

En este artículo comentaremos las principales discusiones surgidas en la Mesa N° 15 "Problemas de corporalidad" desarrollada en el IX Congreso Argentino y IV Latinoamericano de Educación Física y Ciencias, en la UNLP. En este grupo de trabajo se recibieron ponencias que versaron sobre la cuestión de la corporalidad en la práctica artística, incluyendo fundamentalmente reflexiones relativas a la danza, el teatro, la performance, la música, la danza-terapia y la educación corporal. Se puso énfasis en la generación de debates, discusiones y reflexiones que tocaran a todos los expositores o a grupos de ellos, posibilitando delimitar puntos de encuentro y divergencias entre sus enfoques. Las discusiones surgidas estuvieron atravesados por el hecho de que casi todos los trabajos compartían una característica: el ser producto de la reflexión sobre la propia práctica. Esto puso en el centro del debate las reflexiones sobre las relaciones entre experiencia e investigación, y los diálogos que se generan entre el hacer investigación desde y sobre la práctica

The state of the art defence : defining the Australian experience in the context of pharmaceuticals

One of the defences within Part 3-5 of the Australian Consumer Law is the state of the art, or development risk defence. This defence, although significant, has often been neglected in Australian jurisprudential analysis and has triggered at most generic academic analysis. However, with the rise of pharmaceutical and medical device litigation in Australia, it could become a vital weapon for Australian manufacturers against product liability claims. This paper will firstly review the two ways this defence could operate. It will also discuss the three types of defects which the defence could apply to. This paper aims to determine exactly when and how this defence should apply in Australia, in the context of pharmaceutical product liability claims.

Wasting Time? Art, Science and New Experience. Examining the Artwork, Know more (House of Commons)

Today the future is travelling rapidly towards us, shaped by all that which we have historically thrown into it. Much of what we have designed for our world over the ages, and much of what we continue to embrace in the pursuit of mainstream economic, cultural and social imperatives, embodies unacknowledged ‘time debts’. Every decision we make today has the potential to ‘give time to’, or take ‘time away’ from that future. This idea that ‘everything‘ inherently embodies ‘future time left’ is underlined by design futurist Tony Fry when he describes how we so often ‘waste’ or ‘take away’ ‘future time’. “In our endeavours to sustain ourselves in the short term we collectively act in destructive ways towards the very things we and all other beings fundamentally depend upon”

Art museums and the global tourist: Experience centres in experience-scapes

In the experience economy, the role of art museums has evolved so as to cater to global cultural tourists. These institutions were traditionally dedicated to didactic functions, and served cognoscenti with elite cultural tastes that were aligned with the avant-garde’s autonomous stance towards mass culture. In a post-avant-garde era however museums have focused on appealing to a broad clientele that often has little or no knowledge of historical or contemporary art. Many of these tourists want art to provide entertaining and novel experiences, rather than receiving pedagogical ‘training’. In response, art museums are turning into ‘experience venues’ and are being informed by ideas associated with new museology, as well as business approaches like Customer Experience Management. This has led to the provision of populist entertainment modes, such as blockbuster exhibitions, participatory art events, jazz nights, and wine tasting, and reveals that such museums recognize that today’s cultural tourist is part of an increasingly diverse and populous demographic, which shares many languages and value systems. As art museums have shifted attention to global tourists, they have come to play a greater role in gentrification projects and cultural precincts. The art museum now seems ideally suited to tourist-centric environments that offer a variety of immersive sensory experiences and combine museums (often designed by star-architects), international hotels, restaurants, high-end shopping zones, and other leisure forums. These include sites such as Port Maravilha urban waterfront development in Rio de Janiero, the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, and the Chateau La Coste winery and hotel complex in Provence. It can be argued that in a global experience economy, art museums have become experience centres in experience-scapes. This paper will examine the nature of the tourist experience in relation to the new art museum, and the latter’s increasingly important role in attracting tourists to urban and regional cultural precincts.

Art museums and the global tourist: Experience centers in experiencescapes

Art museums are playing an important role is attracting cultural tourists to global cities and regions. Traditionally, art museums were primarily known for their didactic role. In a post-avant-garde era however museums are more focused on appealing to a broader clientele that want art to be novel and entertaining. Art museums have also come to play a greater role in gentrification projects and cultural precincts. This is because they are ideally suited for tourist-centric environments that offer a variety of immersive sensory experiences, and combine museums (often designed by star-architects), international hotels, restaurants, high-end shopping zones, and other leisure platforms. These "experiencescapes" include Port Maravilha urban waterfront development in Rio de Janiero, the Shanghai Bund, and the Broad project in Los Angeles. The Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart Australia is a boutique player in the global market for experiencescapes. It is smaller than many of its competitors and is situated in a remote part of the world, yet it has made an important contribution to Tasmania’s tourism industry.