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“Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal”Volume 10 – Nr 2, 2023 |
Table of Contents
Dec 2023; 10(2)
1. Cătălin Gheorghe
Art as Journalism as Critical Artistic Research
Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal / Dec 2023 10(2)
ABSTRACT
Different forms of visual and discursive communication transformed practices in the field of art. One relevant turn in the thinking and production of art is based on the intricate philosophies and practices of ‘artistic research’. Using journalistic practice as a key model of problematization and positioning in the social field, the artist as a researcher engages in protocols and operations of informing public opinion and mediating the formation of an agentified audience. As such, journalistic artworks can be perceived as critical projects that can expose conditions of social inequity, political hegemony, and economical precarity in their investigations and performances. Examples of artworks produced by Schlingensief, Boulos, and Sekula with Burch are used to prove the formation of a paradigm of “art as experimental journalism” based on the practice of critical artistic research.
Keywords: art as journalism, artistic research, critical research, agentified audience, public opinion.
2. Ana Carolina Lima Santos
What remains in visual arts from the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship: uses of dictatorial memories between 2000 and 2019
Studies in Visual Arts and Communication – an international journal / Dec 2023 10(2)
ABSTRACT
This article maps out visual art works which explore the memories of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship, developed in the first two decades of the 21st century. Twelve works, understood as paradigmatic, are preliminarily examined to show how they shape dictatorial memories. The main thematic lines of force detected in the set of productions can be observed in them. When comparing with the analysis of three more works, some non-thematic recurrences are also perceived, as well as other aspects, such as lines of flight. Thus, initial considerations on how the memory of the dictatorship has been marked out in art are outlined.
Keywords: visual arts, socio-political arts, memory, poetics and politics of memory, Brazilian civil-military dictatorship.