Author(s):
Fernandes, Marta Sofia Bento Pires
Date: 2011
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/10917
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Cultura; Hegemonia Cultural; Hermenêutica; Memória Cultural e Colectiva; Cerimónias comemorativas; Rituais Culturais e Contemporâneos; Produção e Consumo; Performance; Arte Multimédia; Objecto Artístico; Biografia; Autobiografia.; Culture; Cultural Hegemony; Hermeneutics; Cultural and Collective Memory; Commemorative Ceremonies; Cultural and Contemporary Rituals; Production and Consumption; Performance; Multimedia Art; Artistic Object Biography; Autobiography.; ARTE; Porto
Description
Universal Biography and Autobiography: for a model of analysis of the rituals of production and consumption in multimedia art regards the study and analysis of alternative forms of questioning how we create our collective cultural memory through objects and rituals. The field of investigation here shown stands apart from areas of History or Art criticism. The approach to rituals is made from the Socio-cultural view point, aspiring to recognize a model of cultural profusion. Foremost, the role of memory in the construction of cultural content is here analyzed. With that intent, the validity between external devices, such as hermeneutics and rituals, is discussed on that construction. Approaching broad themes such as Memory, Culture, Language, dichotomies between Hermeneutics and Rituals, Text and Image are established to understand an evolution from traditional rituals to contemporary ones in artistic activity. It is questioned and suggested that contemporary rituals, with their potential of being performative manifestations that centre on the individual, constitute a privileged format for a transverse language, independent of religion, nationality or group. Being the investigation developed in the scope of the Master in Multimedia Art, an analysis of artistic proposals was followed, that discusses the breadth of the multimedia and performance concepts. The presence of the sub-heading For a model of analysis of the rituals of production and consumption in multimedia art , represents a framing of the dynamic which is present on contemporary rituals in biographical and autobiographical artistic work. Pondering about the model of interpretation and analyses is made in the presence of the body of work of the artist: Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum and Morgan O Hara, seeking to inquest if their work can be characterized as a memory agent.
