THE ARTIST IN MAGICIAN (Delays, survivals, archaisms and politics of the use of magic in the image)

• Grant number: 15/14953-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: August 05, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Literature Theory
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Sterzi de Carvalho Júnior
• Grantee: Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira
• Supervisor: Giovanni Careri
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/12206-5 - Peoples without map, maps without people: images and potency of the land, BP.PD

Abstract

This research project aims the analysis of a work mounted in the framework of the exhibition Magicians de la Terre in 1989, Mission / Missions - How to build cathedrals, Cildo Meireles. There will be discussed the resonance between this work of art and the proposal of the Commissioner of the exhibition Jean-Hubert Martin. This theoretical research is divided into three parts: 1. The fractures exposed by delays, including time frames deployed by the installation; 2. Magicians de la Terre, the horizon and the origin of exposure criteria; 3. Magic / image: the challenge of a political opening of the continental thought and the representation of the people.