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- Abandonar a Terra: Diogo EvangelistaPublication . Crespo, Nuno
- Art as expanded rationalityPublication . Amorim, João Pedro; Crespo, NunoWestern rationality tends to interpret, tame and solve (the problems of) reality. Science, capital and entertainment drove colonial and globalizing processes that defined Western Modernity. In this civilization (currently contaminating the whole globe) there is no place for the unknown and the unresolved. According to this conception, as capital grows and science evolves, the world will one day be fully understood and dominated. As an alternative to the Anthropocene and Capitalocene, Donna Haraway (2016) proposes the Chthulucene model as a non Western-centric and human exclusivist interpretation of the Present. By accepting the chaotic nature of Reality, the Chthulucene includes the uncertainty dimension that Western cultures tend to abject. Such dimension characterized by the intertwinement of art, magic and ritual is, on the contrary, very present in the epistemologies of the South (Sousa Santos, 2014), marginalized and devalued by Western domination. Magic, ritual and art expand human rationality (Gil, 2018), by creating space for the unknown and the unresolved in the understanding of the Real. This paper intends to discuss how several artistic practices have challenged the conventional art theory based on the hermeneutics of the object and auratic approximations to art. Such critique can be extended to Rationality. The practices analysed, such as those of Ana Vaz, Kader Attia, Joseph Beuys or Karrabing Film Collective, tend to involve the body as a means of knowledge, and to foster a ritual and magic understanding of art. They challenge Rationality, as they question the dichotomies of subject/object, artist/work of art and work of art/beholder. This overview aims to describe how contemporary artistic practices revalue and recenter the knowledge of the global South. By centering the artistic focus on the body rather than objects, by recreating rituals and magic artifacts and by documenting cultures that resist (or re-exist) against Western domination, these artistic practices engage uncertainty, irresolubility and the unknown.
- Contemporâneo: um tempo sem medidaPublication . Crespo, Nuno
- Editorial: on cinemaPublication . Ribas, Daniel; Crespo, Nuno; Caires, Carlos Sena
- Exercícios e transformações do olhar: Rilke e o EinsehenPublication . Crespo, NunoEste artigo pretende reconstruir, a partir de diferentes textos em prosa e cartas do poeta Rainer Maria Rilke, aquilo que podemos considerar um método poético. Não é que Rilke tente fixar uma genealogia dos seus poemas, mas em diferentes ocasiões o poeta mostra que a sua poesia depende de um conjunto de exercícios e transformações do olhar. A sua melhor apresentação é feita numa carta a Magda von Hattinberg e surge como um olhar não através das coisas, que usa os seres para chegar ao que está para lá deles, mas a partir do seu interior, do centro das coisas, daquele lugar que faz as coisas serem como são. A este olhar chama Einsehen e ele corresponde ao lugar que Deus, diz o poeta, poderia ter ocupado depois de ter criado um ser, um cão por exemplo, para ver se a sua obra estava bem conseguida. Este olhar, que tem nas Anotações de Malte Laudris Brigge (Rilke, 2003) a sua melhor expressão, é um olhar rápido, próprio de quem quer saltar para a intimidade do que acontece e descobrir as suas perplexidades, um olhar voltado para o singular que quer descobrir o mundo a partir do lado de dentro. Não se trata de anular o sujeito poético transformando-o numa janela, sem identidade, espessura ou presença, através da qual se vê, mas sublinhar a relação do poeta com a exterioridade e o modo como a visão é o operador poético por excelência.
- Imagens em movimento: uma conversa com Julião SarmentoPublication . Crespo, Nuno; Amorim, João PedroA conversation with visual artist Julião Sarmento about his work in moving images.
- Infection, participation and informality in Arts Education: the case of the School of Arts (Porto)Publication . Amorim, João Pedro; Crespo, Nuno; Teixeira, LuisArtistic education poses several specific challenges. The specificity of art in the contemporary age demands the development of unique strategies. Following a conceptual framework defined by Infection, Participation and Informality the School of Arts at Universidade Católica Portuguesa adopted since 2018 a strategy comprising a project-based methodology, informal tutoring sessions with artists, a Cultural Programme and an artistic residencies programme. This paper presents the early results of this strategy, and analyses how it could create a critical artistic practice of the students. Analysing in particular the Conference Programme Art & Ecology organized by the School of Arts proposes art as an important drive for the change of perspective and attitudes
- IntroductionPublication . Ribas, Daniel; Crespo, Nuno
- Introduction: “Is There a Place (Still) For Criticism?”Publication . Osorio, Luiz Camillo; Crespo, Nuno; Buchmann, SabethThe texts presented in this special issue of the JSTA have two ambitions. On the one hand, they try to retake the problem of art criticism in a digital age that significantly transformed the means of exhibition and experimentation of works of art. Together they are an introduction to the task of criticism today, taking into account its genealogy in German theoretical romanticism and its new repertoires in post-colonial theory and infra-structural critique. On the other hand, they aim in recovering the discussion of criticism and the need for its inclusion in contemporary art discussions.
- Language! : it’s a virus : palavras e imagens em Ana HatherlyPublication . Crespo, Nuno