Antropophágyca: videoinstalação

Abstract

The video installation began in the mid-1960s, gaining prominence in the works of artists such as Fluxus, Wolf Vostell and Bill Viola. In Brazil, the video installation gained more prominence in the second half of the 1970s, with artists such as Antônio Dias and Lygia Pape. Nowadays, the video installation is already a consolidated format, having a prominence in museums of contemporary art and biennials. Institutions and events such as the Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival and the São Paulo Art Biennial are examples of how the country has developed and distributed this language. The proposal presented was a video installation product that manifests a vision and reflection on the subjectivity within the concepts of anthropophagy and technophagy, bringing to light the poetic/radical dimension appropriate to the contemporary cultural environment. The objectives of this project were to design and create a video installation that addresses the concept already mentioned, as well as the quest to develop an artistic language of the video and exercise the creative process. This developed process was recorded in the artist’s notebook and on Tumblr https://www.antropophagyca.tumblr.com/. Visually, the work was be based on audiovisual collages made through archival images, experimentations of audiovisual effects and the use of antique technologies, such as VSH. There was also an exhibition space, which seeks to reproduce a nostalgic living room in an uncommon space, the Museu da Cultura’s yard