Tendo como objetivo geral realizar uma pesquisa visual de forma compartilhada em Paraty, este trabalho abordou diferentes relações entre indivíduo e cidade através de fotografias de acervo pessoal de diferentes perfis encontrados no local: nativos, imigrantes e turistas. Para isso, cada um dos 12 participantes da pesquisa selecionou 12 fotografias de seu acervo pessoal para responder à pergunta como é a sua Paraty?. A partir dessas fotografias, realizamos as entrevistas, momento em que os participantes discorreram sobre as imagens por eles selecionadas, sempre deixando entrever significados sociais em suas narrativas e evidenciando os processos criativos vividos no contexto da pesquisa. Ao final, formaram-se: a) doze conjuntos de doze fotografias, cada um correspondente a um participante da pesquisa; b) os conjuntos multiautorais, que são compostos por imagens de diferentes participantes, porém, que dialogam entre si. Os procedimentos realizados nesse trabalho, que combinam fotografia de acervo pessoal e narrativa, permitiram a criação coletiva de uma representação fotográfica da cidade Paraty, compartilhada entre pesquisador e pesquisados. Também pudemos nos aproximar de algumas diferenças entre turistas, imigrantes e nativos desta cidade, as quais se revelaram nas imagens trazidas por cada sujeito da pesquisa / The broader objective of this work is to conduct a shared visual research in Paraty. To this end we address different relationships between the individual and the city, using photographs from the personal collections of different profiles found in the city: natives, immigrants and tourists. To each of the twelve research participants was asked to select twelve photographs from his personal collection in order to answer the question \"What is your Paraty like?\". From these photographs we conducted interviews, at which moment the participants talked about the images they had selected, allowing us to glimpse at social meanings in their narratives, and to point out the creative processes experimented in the context of research. By the end we had created: a) twelve sets of twelve photographs each corresponding to their author and research participant; b) multiple author sets, composed of photographs of different authors which, nevertheless, develop a dialogue with each other. The procedures performed in this work, which combine personal collection of photography and narrative, allowed the collective creation of a photographic representation of the city of Paraty, shared between researcher and researched. Furthermore, we were able to approach some of the differences between tourists, immigrants and natives of this city, which are revealed in the images brought by each research subject

Da totalidade da produção vygotskiana sobre arte, há duas obras editadas e traduzidas para vários idiomas: o ensaio sobre Hamlet, A tragédia de Hamlet, príncipe da Dinamarca, de 1915-6, e Psicologia da arte, de 1925. Ambas foram editadas em russo em um mesmo volume somente em 1965. Entre elas, há uma intensa produção do autor como crítico teatral e literário, que até muito pouco tempo constava apenas de listagens de bibliografias e era inédita mesmo em russo. Assim, o objetivo da presente tese é contribuir para a superação dessa importante lacuna na divulgação da obra inicial de Vygotski (entre 1915 e 1926). O corpus investigado compreende um vasto conjunto de resenhas e artigos, principalmente sobre literatura e teatro, além de uma breve incursão no campo das artes plásticas. A partir do levantamento e exame dessa produção, foi feita a tradução diretamente do russo de uma seleção de textos inéditos em português. Esse material foi agrupado temática e cronologicamente em oito eixos: 1) teatro e revolução; 2) crítica literária; 3) crítica teatral sobre a Companhia Solovtsóv; 4) crítica teatral sobre o teatro judaico de Rubin; 5) crítica teatral balanço; 6) dança; 7) teatro infantil; 8) artes plásticas. A tese está dividida em dois blocos principais: no primeiro deles são comentadas as produções do Vygotski conhecido (A tragédia de Hamlet, príncipe da Dinamarca e Psicologia da arte), ao passo que o segundo é dedicado ao comentário sobre os textos inéditos selecionados, cujas traduções são apresentadas em anexo. O Vygótski-crítico que conhecemos a partir do material estudado é alguém com grande sensibilidade estética e também um militante pelo desenvolvimento de uma cena de qualidade nos palcos provincianos. Sua perspectiva sobre a arte busca superar tanto o reducionismo de uma tendência estritamente formal quanto da estética marxista vulgar. / From all Vygotsky\'s works on art, two of them were edited and translated into several languages: the essay on Hamlet from 1915-6 and Psychology of art, from 1925. Both came to light in Russian in a single edition only in 1965. Between them, the author has produced extensively as a theatrical and literary critic. This production has appeared only in bibliographical listings, but remained, until very short ago, unpublished even in Russian. Thus, the objective of the present thesis is to contribute to overcome this gap in the divulgation of Vygotsky\'s initial work (1915-1926). The investigated corpus comprises a vast number of reviews and articles, mainly on literature and theater, plus a brief incursion in the field of plastic arts. From the survey and exam of this production, a selection of texts previously unpublished in Portuguese was translated directly from Russian. This material was thematically and chronologically grouped in eight axes: 1) theater and revolution; 2) literary criticism; 3) theatrical criticism on Solovtsov troupe; 4) theatrical criticism on Rubins Jewish theater; 5) theatrical criticism overview; 6) dance; 7) children\'s theater; 8) plastic arts. The thesis is divided in two main parts: the first is dedicated to the production of the known Vygotsky (essay on Hamlet and Psychology of art), while the second provides comments on the selected unpublished texts, whose translations are presented in the appendix. The Vygotsky-critic that we get to know from the examined material is someone with great aesthetical sensibility and a militant for the development of a qualified scene in the provincial stage. His perspective on art seeks to overcome the reductionism of a strictly formal approach as well as vulgar Marxist aesthetics.

My exhibition draws on Andreas Huyssen's notion of memory sculpture to articulate my own sense of loss and trauma, due to the divorce of my parents. Within my work I explore the effects that divorce had on me and how it has disturbed my normative understanding of home and family. I have created scenarios alluding to the family home that I have manipulated in order to convey a sense of nostalgia and loss. By growing salt crystals over found objects and/or cladding them in salt, I attempt to suggest the dual motifs of preservation (a nostalgic clinging to the past) and destruction (due to the salt’s corrosive properties). In this way, the salt-crusted objects serve as a metaphor for a memory that has become stagnant, and is both destructive and regressive. The objects encapsulate the mind’s coping methods to loss. In my mini thesis, I discuss characteristics of memory sculpture as a response to trauma, drawing on Sigmund Freud's differentiation between mourning and melancholia. I also unpack how objects and traces (such as photographs) may act as nostalgic triggers, inducing a state of melancholic attachment to an idealised past. I address these concerns in relation to selected works by Doris Salcedo and Bridget Baker, and also situate them in relation to my own art practice.

Paul Emmanuel is a South African artist who produces incised drawings, outdoor installations and prints (particularly intaglio etchings and manière noire lithographs). These focus on the representation of male bodies and experience. Having begun his career as a collaborative printmaker, since 2002, his work has become more ambitious as well as critically acclaimed. In 2010, his most recent body of work, Transitions, was exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington D.C. I propose that Emmanuel represents the male body as a presence that either is not easily seen or that actively disappears or erases itself. Its subjectivity, and the viewer’s engagement with it, may be characterised as one of intimacy, exposure, loss and vulnerability. Emmanuel’s work may be said to question conventions and ideals of masculinity while, at the same time, refusing any prescriptive interpretation. To develop this proposition, I examine specifically Emmanuel’s incising drawing technique that ‘holds open’ transitions in male lives. In these liminal moments, Emmanuel represents men as ‘seen’ to change state or status, thereby exposing the ongoing process of building masculine identities. Equally elucidatory is Emmanuel’s imprinting of his own body, which, in his use of “traces” that reveal the vacillation between presence and absence, makes contingently ‘visible’ this gendering process, and has particular implications for the expression of subjectivity in a contemporary South African context.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the interaction between art and contested notions of Hong Kong identity by examining recent installations that employ the red, white and blue-striped plastic fabric, locally known in Hong Kong as red-white-blue (紅白藍). The red-white-blue fabric has, in recent years, become a signifier of the collective identity of Hong Kong people and of the ‘Hong Kong spirit’, with specific reference to the traits of the working class in the 1960s. The repeated articulations of this material in artworks show that there are certain qualities in this material with which local people identify. This study examines how installation works that employ this material question and revise notions of Hong Kong identity, and suggest its plurality and mutability. Works of local artists including Stanley Wong (a.k.a. Anothermountainman), Kith Tsang, Doris Wong, Siu King Chung and Tim Li are discussed in detail. Accounts of installations that employ red-white-blue often offer a limited interpretation of such works, paying insufficient attention to formal qualities and assuming a fixed and unitary notion of Hong Kong identity. The thesis argues that this paradigmatic cliché about Hong Kong identity is also expressed in the red-white-blue works of Stanley Wong to the extent that they evoke nostalgia and neglect contemporary social reality. The prevalence of such readings of red-white-blue-inspired works of art has veiled the complexity of works that interrogate Hong Kong identity from a diversity of perspectives. The contribution of this thesis is to remedy that situation, and provide a comprehensive account of key red-white-blue installation works.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-64). / As a South African artist I am in power to influence some manner of change, through my art, to the structure of national thought and hence national identity. Through my live art installation TOTANDERKUNTUlT, I offered South Africans the opportunity to engage in the cathartic process of resolution and reconciliation through dialogue. The aim of this dialogue is to engender a new method of practice for a non-racialised approach to the development of an integrated cultural identity that South Africans can work towards. I am not proclaiming to have this identity defined. I am positing saamtrekking as a method of practice for an identity that can be practiced by all race, colours and creeds of South Africans. Saamtrekking is a coming together, it is the acknowledged acceptance of some manner of change towards transformation. It requires acknowledgement in order to be practiced, the subject must practice acts of transformative behaviour in order to transform.

This study investigates the link between anguish and artistic creativity. It became possible to follow this link through the concept of anguish and its related aspects that were explored in the works of Jacques Lacan. The concept of art that was adopted in this study is based on the theories of Georges Dickie and Arthur Danto, which explain the role of the idea of institutional art through the artworld. The current study pursued its enquiries through the analysis of the texts of interviews with selected South African artists namely Albert Munyai, Azwimpheleli Gerson Magoro and Norman Catherine and through selected artworks by these three artists. A mix of discourse analysis and iconography was employed to analyse the data. Anguish is an affect that is not readily apparent or detectable but is more likely to be recognized as something displaced, inverted or adrift. Therefore, anguish in the data was approached from diverse angles. Discourse analysis helped to find patterns in the language that linked to signs of anguish as described through a psychoanalytical framework. For the analysis of the artworks, a combination of iconography and the categories of the borromean knot was adopted. These methodologies permitted the translation of aspects of artworks into texts. Anguish as an affect related with the absence of an absolute meaning for existence may also be present in the motivation to create something from nothingness. There is an indication that through creating art one may be trying to symbolize the real that affects the subject.

Vivencio a poesia de Roberto Piva em seus devires eróticos, derivas políticas e delírios místicos, a partir de uma leitura livre de Ode a Fernando Pessoa (1961), Piazzas (1964) e Coxas: sex-fiction & delírios (1979). Adoto como método de pesquisa uma experiência sobretudo estética e vertiginosa, inspirada na Psicologia Social da Arte e encharcada da verve delirante que o próprio Roberto Piva sugere para percorrer seus intertextos. Ao ressoar os devires eróticos, envereda-se pelo corpo de garotos delinquentes que abrem a libertinagem em reverberações cósmicas e revolucionárias. Trilhar suas derivas políticas conduz à anarquia no limite extremo da criminalidade, além de tangenciar o engajamento do poeta em movimentos sociais como o movimento niilista, meios revolucionários da esquerda e iniciativas pioneiras no Brasil na discussão da diversidade sexual e da ecologia. Seus delírios místicos conduzem à volição de um caos que funde arte e vida, eu e outro, experiência incorporada em uma morte ritual que inaugura o renascimento num mundo grávido de sentidos a serem descobertos / I experience the poetry of Roberto Piva in their erotic becomings, drifts politics and mystical deliriums, from a free reading his works Ode to Fernando Pessoa (1961), Piazzas (1964) and Thighs: sex-fiction and deliriums (1979). I adopt as a research method mainly a aesthetic experience, inspired by Brazilian authors of Psychology of Art, soaked of the delirious verve that Roberto Piva suggests to go their intertexts. To resonate erotic becomings is to move through body of delinquent boys who open the libertinage in cosmic and revolutionary reverberations. Walk their drifts politics leads to anarchy in the extreme limit of crime, and the poets engagement in social movements such as the nihilistic movement, socialist movement and pioneering initiatives in Brazil in the sexual diversity and ecology. His mystical deliriums lead to volition of a chaos that fuses art and life, self and other, experienced in a ritual death that opens the world of rebirth in a meanings to be discovered

O trabalho a seguir propõe um estudo do filme Chaplin (1992), dirigido por Richard Attenborough. Essa investigação foi feita sob a perspectiva da psicologia social da arte e do cinema, procurando entender o objeto dentro do campo em que ele se encaixa: a atividade artística. Levantamos também a discussão das temáticas que a própria obra suscita. Para tal, alguns autores de áreas conciliáveis com a psicologia foram utilizados também. Exemplo disso é a forte presença de estudos iconológicos no trabalho. Em nossa avaliação do filme subdividimos a análise em duas etapas majoritárias. Na primeira delas, separamos a obra por seções, de acordo com o que consideramos como momentos distintos da narrativa. Cada uma delas corresponde a uma fase da vida do personagem principal e/ou uma série de acontecimentos muito marcantes correlacionados. Nessas seções consideramos também algumas categorias técnicas para a avaliação das cenas. São as atuações, a música, os diferentes enquadramentos e cenários e a luminosidade dos frames, assim como as suas cores. Já na segunda parte da análise, algumas das sequências são avaliadas mais profundamente, considerando as categorias anteriormente citadas e fazendo uma descrição minuciosa do correr daquele instante narrativo. Além disso, são discutidos os tópicos que aparecem com mais força na sequência. Ou seja, estivemos atentos a dois aspectos principais enquanto analisamos o filme: as temáticas recorrentes da obra (como a relação entre fama, sucesso e solidão, por exemplo) e as estratégias utilizadas pela película para criar as cenas e a narrativa. A forma como ela combina os enquadramentos, a música e os demais elementos. Por fim, estabelecemos algumas reflexões gerais sobre o filme como um todo, pensando na análise das seções e das sequências escolhidas. Assim como também propomos uma continuidade das discussões erigidas nesta pesquisa / The following work proposes a study of Chaplin (1992), movie directed by Richard Attenborough. We carried this inquiry under the Social Psychology of Art and Cinema perspective, trying to understand the object inside the field it fits in: the artistic activity. We also discussed themes the own work of art elicits. For this, we applied scholars whose areas dialogue with Psychology as well. For instance, we have a strong presence of iconological studies in the work. The examination of the film required a two main steps subdivided analysis. On the first one, we separated the movie into sections, according to what we considered distinguished moments of the narrative. Each one of them matches a protagonists life phase and/or a correlated chain of remarkable events. We also considered some technical categories on these sections, so we could examine the scenes. They are the performers acting, music, framings and scenarios, and finally the colors and luminosity of these frames. Then we have the second part analysis, which is a deep and detailed examination of some sequences, considering the mentioned categories. In other words, we kept our attention on two main aspects while conducting the analysis: the movie recurring issues (for instance, the relation between fame, success and loneliness) and its scene creation strategies. Namely, the combination of framing, music and other elements. Finally, there are some general reflections about the movie as a whole, contemplating the sections and the chosen sequences analysis. We also propose that the raised debates continue beyond this research

Vivencio a poesia de Roberto Piva em seus devires eróticos, derivas políticas e delírios místicos, a partir de uma leitura livre de Ode a Fernando Pessoa (1961), Piazzas (1964) e Coxas: sex-fiction & delírios (1979). Adoto como método de pesquisa uma experiência sobretudo estética e vertiginosa, inspirada na Psicologia Social da Arte e encharcada da verve delirante que o próprio Roberto Piva sugere para percorrer seus intertextos. Ao ressoar os devires eróticos, envereda-se pelo corpo de garotos delinquentes que abrem a libertinagem em reverberações cósmicas e revolucionárias. Trilhar suas derivas políticas conduz à anarquia no limite extremo da criminalidade, além de tangenciar o engajamento do poeta em movimentos sociais como o movimento niilista, meios revolucionários da esquerda e iniciativas pioneiras no Brasil na discussão da diversidade sexual e da ecologia. Seus delírios místicos conduzem à volição de um caos que funde arte e vida, eu e outro, experiência incorporada em uma morte ritual que inaugura o renascimento num mundo grávido de sentidos a serem descobertos / I experience the poetry of Roberto Piva in their erotic becomings, drifts politics and mystical deliriums, from a free reading his works Ode to Fernando Pessoa (1961), Piazzas (1964) and Thighs: sex-fiction and deliriums (1979). I adopt as a research method mainly a aesthetic experience, inspired by Brazilian authors of Psychology of Art, soaked of the delirious verve that Roberto Piva suggests to go their intertexts. To resonate erotic becomings is to move through body of delinquent boys who open the libertinage in cosmic and revolutionary reverberations. Walk their drifts politics leads to anarchy in the extreme limit of crime, and the poets engagement in social movements such as the nihilistic movement, socialist movement and pioneering initiatives in Brazil in the sexual diversity and ecology. His mystical deliriums lead to volition of a chaos that fuses art and life, self and other, experienced in a ritual death that opens the world of rebirth in a meanings to be discovered