NEW DRIFTS

Author(s)

Jacopo Crivelli Visconti

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU/SBI)
• Defense date: 2012-04-19

Examining board members

Luis Antonio Jorge; Ana Maria de Moraes Belluzzo; Marta Vieira Bogéa; Agnaldo Aricê Caldas Farias; Abílio da Silva Guerra Neto

• Advisor: Luis Antonio Jorge

Abstract

This thesis seeks to delimitate and analyze an artistic strategy that can be considered recurrent since the end of the 1960s, and which consists basically, or at least includes as its core element, the act of walking, mostly undertaken by the artist him/herself. In order to define this practice, the word employed is the Situationist term \"deriva\" (drift), which situates the reader in the socially and politically engaged context in which most of the works here analyzed were created, and based upon which they are therefore read. In the first part of the thesis, a series of theoretical considerations is made, aiming at identifying a few recurrent characteristics of the \"drifts\", while at the same time placing them in the context of more general trends and concerns, as the so-called Demateriali- zation of art, or Relational Aesthetics, among others. The second part consists basically of a large, although certainly not complete, summary of works that are relevant for this research, produced during the last five decades. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 09/05046-3 - New strolls
• Grantee: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)