The Art of Elaboration: relationship between Contemporary Art and Traumatic Memory.

• Grant number: 11/04295-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2012
• Effective date (End): September 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Plastic Arts
• Principal Investigator: Dária Gorete Jaremtchuk
• Grantee: Vivian Palma Braga dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research project aims to analyze some works of contemporary art that has as its theme the traumatic memory, trying to understand how they deal with the traumatic past. The research is based on the assumption that these works, beyond a simple return to the past, may present opportunities for development / overcome the trauma present in the collective memory, operating as shields. From these studies, which mostly deal with authoritarian dictatorships, and the arguments of various theories of memory, we intend to analyze what has been called "art of elaboration" significant field of contemporary art. To this end, the work will be studied from its characteristics of archive (photographs and objects). Will also be placed on the agenda the different theories about memory, and basic psychoanalytic principles of trauma, repetition and transfer of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.

Academic Publications

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

SANTOS, Vivian Palma Braga dos. A arte da elaboração: poéticas artísticas contemporâneas como espaços para a construção de memórias. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA/SBD) São Paulo.