Lo que me interesó de esta performance es cómo cuestiona el arte “tradicional, el estado de los “objetos” o de las “cosas”, la relación del artista y el espectador, la acción corporal, la relación espacio / tiempo, el entorno interno y externo, y la conexión de lo visual con otros sentidos. “Mientras más veo menos […]
as brechas e as coisas
Em seu Antropofagia Zumbi, Suely Rolnik traça uma interessante reflexão sobre como a experiência brasileira, a partir dos cinco séculos de vivência canibal. Passando pelos hábitos de Guerra dos povos tupinambás, pela força do Manifesto Antropofágico na fundação das bases do modernismo brasileiro a partir de uma perspectiva digestiva, foi se criando uma forma de […]
Cannibalism, the “New” Pedagogical Diet
Viveiros de Castro and Oswald de Andrade know Marx and Freud, the ethnographic and blind discourses of “the savage” created in the XIX Century, and the critical paradigms that have shaped the anthropology and the production of cultural artifacts in the West, and by extension, in Latin America. I want to highlight the time distance […]
Keeping Up on Sundays
This weekend I find myself consuming and being consumed, now entertaining the ways in which this state can be one of sordid “glass half empty” or blissful “glass half full” existence. As Diana Taylor says in Dead Capital, we are at once the spectator and the product (15), both the almond milk and the almond […]
Becoming and the Pact
In Cannibal Metaphysics, de Castro writes, “Every becoming is an alliance. Which does not mean, once again, that every alliance is a becoming” . I am fascinated by this sentence because it reminds me of the idea of the “pact,” which I am writing about for my group’s final project. According to the Oxford English […]
Cannibalist Translations
“Unlike a work of literature, translation does not find itself in the center of the language forest but on the outside facing the wooded ridge; it calls into it without entering, aiming at that single spot where the echo is able to give, in its own language as a whole, taking an individual work in […]
Tupi Lição
As we read in Cannibal Metaphysics, the Tupinanbá anthropophagic ritual had the purpose of erasing the enemy’s alterity. Throughout the months or years that the captive would spend in the town of his captors, his otherness would disintegrate and he would become a husband, a brother, a friend. The movie Como era gustoso o meo […]