Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-01T23:30:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_10958_Dissertação Marianna.pdf: 58609148 bytes, checksum: 537a8ab8d4f35eb2e7a3339d24bb8200 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-02 / Este trabalho discute a ideia da casualidade, desenvolvida pela artista Moyra Davey em textos e trabalhos fotográficos, associando-a à lógica do índice da semiótica de Charles Sanders Peirce como ela é desenvolvida pela crítica de arte Rosalind Krauss em seus textos Notas sobre o índice: Parte 1, Notas sobre o índice: Parte 2 e Marcel Duchamp ou o Campo Imaginário. Palavras-chave: Moyra Davey, fotografia, lógica do índice, Rosalind Krauss

The aim of following thesis is to demonstrate the potentials of reassessing camp into a question of method. While others have argued for the definition of camp to lie in: an aesthetic; a question of taste; the extravagant theatrical; the male gay sensibility; or as an expression of parody, this thesis suggests that camp is to be found in the performative act of readings. With emphasis on ‘decoding language’, ‘the signifier/signified’ and ‘the camp eye’ I will argue for the relevance of ‘camp as method’ and situate former stated in relation to Bhabha’s concept of ‘conversational art’; a deconstructional examination of values of aesthetic experiences set into dialogue. Demonstrating for such conceptualization three theoretical approaches and themes will be outlined. First, a historical overview of camp followed by a reassessment of camp into a method. Second, an examination of possible extensions to the concept of rereading strategies within camp, including theories on queer phenomenology; queer space and time; topias and non-places; theories of curatorial methods and its agencies. And last, I will do an analysis of Moyra Davey’s video Hemlock Forest and show how Davey’s use and reference towards Chantal Akerman can be read as camp and constitutes ‘camp as method’ according to suggested reassessment.