Strategic Project - UI 4041 - 2014

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"'Jaime' (1973) de António Reis"

Publication . OLIVEIRA, Miguel

Photography and the cinematographer have dominated in the twentieth century two essential aspects of the artistic apparatuses referring to two orders of enunciation (in the Foucauldian sense, also two orders of discourse): the showing and the telling. The work we have chosen to illustrate this is the Portuguese medium length film (approx. 30') Jaime. António Reis (1927-1991) filmed Jaime, in 1973, inspired on the life and work of Jaime Fernandes (1900-1969), who was hospitalized for 31 years at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda with the diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. In the last four years, he painted and drew a singular work in accordance to Dubuffet's canon: "the laws which govern his art are equivalent to those of children or primitive peoples." For Jaime it is not a matter of representation but of production. "He was always working", witnesses one of his companions of the Psychiatric Hospital.

2015-01Book part

Open access

"Máquinas Poéticas. Mecanismos para el Arte"

Publication . BARREIRO, Maria Covadonga

Our theme emerges from the interest in objectual artistic pieces imbued with movement, especially those object-machines or mechanisms that convey a certain poetic atmosphere. Ours is a brief review covering the appearance of mechanical and mobile elements in art, from the period of the avantgardes to their continued, contemporary presence. At a time, our time, dominated by technology, the screen, the digital and the virtual this approach presupposes a brief retrospective look. The gaze of fascination with the mechanical, with the precarious artefacts, gadgets or machines, as well as the interest in the real presence and direct experience of self-involved objects and mechanisms, governed by a movement that is often fragile and unstable.

2013-12Book part

Open access

"Os Limites? Que Limites?"

Publication . Neves, Eduarda

From the illusion of the similitude of reality to the illusion of the representation of identity. The unsolvable tension between reference and representation. Self-portrait, identity and machine of capitalist de-territorialisation. Technically speaking, what is left of the subject? Limits? What limits?

2013-12Book part

Open access