Thinking the world through images: times and spaces in the work of Alex Flemming

• Grant number: 11/04801-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Etienne Ghislain Samain
• Grantee: Juliana Maria Nascimento Biscalquin
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Art rediscovers itself, today, as a privileged substrate of human cultures and witness of its various expressions and representations. In parallel, Anthropology (Visual, specially) realizes that images do not exist in our imaginary and in turn societies could not emerge without the Arts. In this scenery, alongside with authors such as Hans Belting, Alfred Gell and, mainly, Georges Didi-Huberman (privileged exegete of the father of modern Iconology, Aby Warburg), we intend to join in a wider questioning of the role of the Arts (and images) inside a reconfiguration of the anthropological speech. It is from this interactive and experience-based background that we are going to investigate the subjects inside Alex Flemming's work and, with him, rethink the political dimensions of images and learn to admit, along with Jean-Luc Godard, that "there is no such thing as a simple image. Any everyday image is part of a vague and complex system, whereby I inhabit the world and thanks to which the world inhabits me". (Movie Ici et Ailleurs, 1974) (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

BISCALQUIN, Juliana Maria Nascimento. Alex Flemming: questions for our time. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes Campinas, SP.