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- Architecture and its metaphors. The poetic form as expriencePublication . Rudari, FedericoWhile language can be understood as an expression of the phenomenal unity between the world and man, it is the poetic form that has always explained both mythical and physical phenomena of the human experience (Paz 1973). Following the idea of a primordial connection between poetry and understanding, I aim to explore the possibility of expanding the poetic model to other human cognitive experiences, and the architectural one in particular. The metaphorical relational structure between signifier and signified at the core of poetics can be translated in architectural terms in multiple ways: the relationship between container and contained space, built materiality and its experienceable in between, and many more. In this way, space as an external object becomes part of its subject: this is the limit and only possibility of knowledge. The emphasis given to the experiential dimension of the spaces we inhabit shifted the focus from what architecture is, has or does, to how its users feel and, ultimately, on who they are (Klingmann 2007). From the Situationist International to Antonioni’s cinema and experience economy, this contribution addresses architectural forms as part of a social life which determines use, reception, and participation by communities, renewing the attention on experience rather than function.
- Bodies in space: for a queer ecology of contagionPublication . Rudari, FedericoBodies are essential instruments for cognition and interpretation, as well as the experience of our surroundings and the outer world. However, dominant powers have often influenced sets of ecological affordances to exercise control over bodies and their experience, where public health has been a recurrent motivation justifying critical standards, narratives, and coercive measures. This article, instead, aims at looking at the possibility of contagion as necessary to create new ecologies. Through the analysis of two installations from the Portuguese context, Ama como a estrada começa (Loving as the road begins, 2019) by João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira and Vampires in Space (2022) by Isadora Neves Marques, the disruption of the normative understanding of contagion is subverted in a celebration of encounters and fluidity (both metaphorical and literal), addressing possible ecologies between queerness and fantasy.
- Duchamp, materiality, and intersubjectivity: from phenomenology to aestheticsPublication . Rudari, Federico
- Illness and metaphor: translating personal experience between the personal and the politicalPublication . Rudari, FedericoIn 2019 Anne Boyer publishes The Undying, a memoir of the experience as breast cancer patient. Her depiction of illness is dense of metaphors: the images employed span from the domain of biology to the textual one. This contribution intends to discuss metaphors in relation to autobiographical writing of illness in two complementary directions. On the one hand, metaphors are forms of re-writing, translating subjective and emotional narratives into cultural objects. In this framework, language functions as a tool for translation in the intricacy of possible meanings, able to bridge private experience and public sharing. Onthe other hand, the gap that subsists between metaphorical representation of individual experiences and collective space of discussion can lead to harmful consequences in socio-political terms. This is the position defended by Susan Sontag, who covers in two essays three diseases (tuberculosis, cancer and HIV/AIDS) over two centuries and the harmful impact metaphorical discourse has brought to both patients and civil society. This paper aims to question both the interconnectedness of autobiographical memory, metaphors and illness as well as the implications of this both subjective and social phenomenon. Theoretical discussion is followed by a close analysis to the aforementioned texts by Boyer and Sontag.
- A matter of non-matter: an editorialPublication . Rudari, Federico; Pinheiro, Teresa
- On why architecture matters: the exhibition experiencePublication . Rudari, FedericoStarting from the three most basic components of the exhibition experience, namely subject, aesthetic object, and context of fruition, this work moves from traditional aesthetic philosophical theories to acknowledge the centrality of space and architecture, whether built or temporary, in the way we make sense of artworks and their interrelation. While exhibitions have been evolving from a mere economic and historical value-based perspective to embrace new social, didactic, and artistic goals, research in phenomenology first and neurocognitive sciences later has addressed the centrality of bodily perception and environmental affordances in our experience of artistic objects. As an integral part of my current doctoral research, this contribution addressed the evolution of the exhibition form in contemporary times, both in its conceptualization and implementation, together with our understanding of the way we experience and make sense of it.
- Role-taking, role-making: the mask as a tool in David Wojnarowicz’s Arthur Rimbaud in New YorkPublication . Rudari, FedericoTraditionally, theatre actors wore masks to embody individuals with no clear identity. Masks did not feature specific anthropomorphic qualities, leaving audiences free to imagine the malleable and anonymous characters between fiction and actual plausibility. In contrast, in the photographic series Arthur Rimbaud in New York by artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz, the use of a Rimbaud mask seems to have an opposite intention, overlapping meanings and allowing spatiotemporal compression. Portraying the French poet in different contexts and activities, Wojnarowicz is able to interpret the notion of identity and belonging following a narrative that is fictional, biographical and collective, addressing queer histories and temporalities. This paper discusses the multiple possibilities that the mask represents in this work.
- The role of empathy between cognition and aesthetic sense-making : the case of tragedy and the myth of MedeaPublication . Rudari, Federico; Abrantes, Ana Margarida MarcelinoAdopting a phenomenological and cognitive semiotic approach, the dissertation defines and discusses empathy and the empathic process highlighting its role in intersubjective contexts and encounters, as well as a tool for comprehension of the unity between observer and artistic object. This peculiar form of knowledge pertains to the original experience of outer objects’ perception, which is influenced by memory of previous knowledge, reservoir of meaning in the phenomenal unity with the other (Zahavi 2010, 2012), and different cognitive devices (metaphors, narrative and semantic domains) which contribute to the shift from observation to comprehension. The dissertation aims to explain how empathy’s epistemic attitude allows an embodied form of understanding, which occurs in the narratological experience of another subject’s states and the aesthetic contemplation of artistic works. In this context, meaning is profoundly linked with emotional, physical and mental dimensions of sense-making: the dissertation analyses visual, embodied and cognitive reactions evoked by aesthetic stimuli and the way spectators’ patterns of consciousness are able to emotionally respond to the experience of artworks. Furthermore, the theoretical study on empathy is applied to the examination of tragedy, acknowledging its relevance in shaping the evolution of literary and performative representation through time. Addressing the significative particularities of tragedy and its characters, the research will focus on the myth of Medea across history, both in its literary depiction by Euripides (432 BC) and the film adaptation directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969).