Category: modernism
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Fritzi
Isabel Meyrelles (1929-) Isabel Meyrelles: “Eu era um bicho tão raro que toda a gente me queria ver.” Conheces a Fritzi? “Conhecida pelos amigos como Fritzi, Isabel causou escândalo ao fumar cachimbo no café Palladium, e foi detida várias vezes por parecer ‘um homem vestido de mulher’” A vida “Quando eu fui viver para Lisboa,…
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Anti-cinema
Woman, Ukrainian, Jewish, Esfir Shub was an absolute pioneer in filmmaking created from documentary film archives. She was thus a forerunner of Soviet cinéma vérité (Kino-Pravda, Dziga Vertov, and others), analytical documentary cinema, and the so-called essay film. Faithful to the avant-garde logic of Soviet agitprop at the dawn of a revolution that took Russia…
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Contemporaries and post-contemporaries
Modern Art is dead. Contemporary Art is dead. Post-contemporary Art’s survival depends very much on how sincere machines can be. Post-contemporary is an expression I invented back in 2005 to designate the time of machines like cell phones, the Internet, and computers in general. Unlike usual time, which only moves in one direction, post-contemporary time…
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A pequena morte
Constelações, ensaios sobre cultura e técnica na contemporaneidadeJosé Bragança de MirandaEdição Sistema Solar, 2023 “É preciso abandonar a mística da salvação que só relança o processo. Aceitando a finitude, vivendo numa errância longe dos arkhai, habitando no abismo da medialidade sem fim, surge a questão da política como imperativo absoluto.”— José Bragança de Miranda Uma…
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Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944)
Art history needs new editing everywhere. The great awakening, like any uprising, has its victims. Nevertheless, “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”! There’s much to learn from feminism and post-feminism, as from post-colonial studies, critical race theory, gender issues, climate change, unsustainable growth, unfair globalization, and pronouns. The Eurocentric male chauvinist is…
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