Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:23:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia L Passalacqua.pdf: 542023 bytes, checksum: d12f5515154be2bd94e524c3bbaa52b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-04 / This paper investigates a writing tool, namely Self-Portrait, whose aim is to collect data on an individual´s psychic expression. It comprises a 35 question questionnaire, made up of open-ended directed and self directed questions. The order of the answers is random, and some questions may be answered many times while others may never be answered. This writing tool was used in a group of psychologically disturbed women, who had been referred to a state health center in the outskirts of São Paulo city. Most women belong to the low and low-middle classes, with very few years of schooling, but, in general, with working experience, in the 30-60 age bracket. They were referred to the state health center by psychiatrists and psychologists, due to chief complaints such as depression, stress, etc. The group was coordinated by the research-psychologist and by an occupational therapist. Initially, the treatment aimed to engage the group in manual tasks and provide them with some space in which they could air their problems. On presenting the questionnaire to the women, the research-psychologist read them the iinstructions, their questions, and explained the procedures as well the terms of agreement. The questionnaire was kept in the health center and apart from the subjects and the therapist, nobody else had access to them. Due to all the conditions of public service assiduity, punctuality, follow-up sessions, among others the use of the self-portrait was not constant in all the sessions and wasn´t equally used by all the women. Since the activities were decided on by the group and took place in the inicial phases of the group´s functioning, it was hard to maintain group cohesion, as some women answered the questionnaires in each session while others took longer to write. These differences were inevitable once all the women shared a common physical space. The self-potrait questions aimed at categorizing those women´s realities: routine, family and professional life, emotional, psychological and existencial aspects and world knowledge. Moreover, the written account of their life experiences served as an oulet for the free expresson of their reality The therapeutical aim of the self-portrait was to investigate the efficiency of writing as a mechanism to surface the underlying phychic information, despite the fact that this written account was produced by women of varying literacy levels. Writing differs from speech in that writing can be crystalized in time, once it can be registered permanently. Besides, writing entails a distinctive connection between conscious and uncounscious contents. It leads the individual into an introspective journey, allowing for the re-enactment of past experiences. By means of this exercise, processes and memories are brought to the consciosness mind and may be modified when experienced again. This study falls into the category of case study, once it focus on aspect´s of a specific woman´s life: someone who, upon joining the group, felt incredbly miserable and was, from the very begining, given special treatment by the research-psychologist. The same rules which applied for the self-portrait within the group were used in private consultations. Semantic networks, formed by words that were repeated along the text, were used for the analysis of the written accounts, following Jung's Model of Typology / Este trabalho investiga um instrumento de escrita, intitulado Auto-Retrato, destinado a coletar dados sobre a expressão psíquica do indivíduo. Trata-se de um questionário de trinta e cinco questões, abertas, dirigidas ou semi-dirigidas, no qual a ordem das respostas é livre, assim como o fato de que algumas questões podem vir a ser respondidas inúmeras vezes e outras, nunca serem respondidas. O instrumento foi utilizado num grupo de mulheres, encaminhadas, pela saúde mental, a um posto de saúde da periferia de São Paulo. As mulheres pertenciam a classes sócio-econômico-culturais baixa e média baixa, em sua maior parte, com poucos anos de escolaridade, mas, no, geral, com experiência de trabalho, na faixa etária de 30 a 60 anos. Chegaram ao posto de saúde via encaminhamentos de psiquiatras e psicólogos, com queixas de depressão, estresse, entre outras. O grupo era coordenado pela psicóloga-pesquisadora e por uma terapeuta ocupacional. Inicialmente, seu objetivo era realizar atividades manuais e paralelamente a elas criar um espaço para a fala e escuta das mulheres entre si e pelas terapeutas. Ao apresentar o questionário às mulheres, a psicóloga-pesquisadora leu a elas suas instruções, suas questões, explicou-lhes as formas de utilização, juntamente com o Termo de Consentimento Livre e Esclarecido.O questionário era mantido no posto de saúde e apenas cada mulher e as terapeutas tinham acesso a ele. Devido a todas as condições que envolvem um atendimento público - assiduidade, pontualidade, continuidade do atendimento, entre outras - o emprego do Auto-Retrato não ocorreu de modo constante em todas as sessões e nem foi igualmente usado por todas as mulheres. Como as atividades eram decididas pelo grupo e no início de seu funcionamento, foi difícil manter a unidade do grupo, com algumas mulheres respondendo-o em todas as sessões, até por se tratar de um espaço físico comum. As questões do Auto-Retrato tinham como objetivo caracterizar a realidade dessas mulheres: vivências cotidianas, vida familiar e profissional, aspectos emocionais, psicológicos e existenciais, conhecimento de mundo e visava ser um continente para a expressão dessa realidade por meio da escrita. .. O emprego do Auto-Retrato teve como objetivo psicoterapêutico investigar a eficácia da escrita para a manifestação de conteúdos psíquicos subjacentes, não importando a variável de a escrita ser realizada por mulheres com diferentes graus de letramento. A escrita tem natureza diferente da fala, fixando-se no tempo, sendo registrada de uma forma permanente, e evocando um compromisso diferente com conteúdos conscientes e inconscientes. Inicia um processo de interiorização no indivíduo, possibilitando uma volta aos conteúdos veiculados. Por meio de seu exercício, processos e memórias são trazidos à consciência e modificados quando revividos. Este trabalho se constituirá em um estudo de caso, na medida em que focará o Auto-Retrato de uma mulher em específico, quem, por ter chegado ao grupo sentindo-se especialmente mal, foi, desde o início, atendida paralelamente de modo individual pela psicóloga-pesquisadora. As mesmas regras estabelecidas para o uso do Auto-Retrato no grupo, foram usadas para sua aplicação na terapia individual. Para a análise do texto escrito do Auto-Retrato os modelos teóricos empregados foram as redes semânticas, formadas pelas palavras que se repetiam no texto escrito, e o referencial teórico de Jung, principalmente, no que se refere aos tipos psicológicos por ele propostos

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Juliana de Oliveira Rodrigues.pdf: 6928376 bytes, checksum: b4218fb43bc24c0c8306e02dfa2a4221 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-09-21 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This present study uses the photos taken by members of the Hip Hop Movement, from the city of São Carlos (SP), which constitute a look upon themselves through the experience of living in group. Focused in the procedures of figurativization and thematization, this research is concerned with the several figures interconnected by the collection of photos, which imply in discursive strategies capable of making the different ways the group present itself to the world. As a consequence, the problematic presents itself around the visibility of the group, articulated in four scenes which, according to the hypothesis of the research, constitute distinct self-portraits. These are part of a subject-oriented universe (of figures known to the particularity of the group) and object-oriented (closer to the images conventionally associated with the Hip Hop context), bringing together the controversial matter of opinions. The objective is to analyze the mechanisms of enunciation to understand how the methods of displaying discourse about the identifying dimension of the group, through the life contexts presented in the visual text. Such study was based on the discursive semiotic of the French line developed by Algirdas Julien. Greimas and his collaborators, to manage the organization of the photographic text as a wholeness of senses and give intelligibility to its production. It's also noticeable the theoretical orientation of the Sociosemiotic proposed by Eric Landowski, the formulations of Jean-Marie Floch about the plastic semiotic and the reflexions about the self-portrait from Lauer A.N. dos Santos. In this correlation, the regimes of sense and interaction, in consonance with the regimes of displaying, as well as the identity relations which bring up the importance of the image as an object for the communication and interaction among the subjects by the act of seeing / O presente estudo toma por objeto as fotografias realizadas por integrantes do Movimento Hip Hop, da cidade de São Carlos (SP), nas quais constroem um olhar sobre si mesmo pelas experiências da vida em grupo. Centrada nos procedimentos de figurativização e tematização, esta pesquisa preocupa-se com as diversas figuras enredadas pelo conjunto fotográfico, que implicam em estratégias discursivas capazes de tornar visível os diferentes modos de o grupo se mostrar no mundo. Em decorrência disso, a problemática se apresenta em torno da visibilidade do grupo, articulada em quatro cenas que, conforme hipótese de pesquisa, constituem distintos auto-retratos. Estes fazem parte de um universo subjetal (de figuras próximas à particularidade do grupo) e objetal (próximas às imagens convencionalmente reiteradas pelo contexto Hip Hop), encadeando a questão polêmica do parecer. O objetivo é analisar os mecanismos de enunciação para compreender como os modos de mostrar discursivizam a dimensão identitária do grupo, pelos contextos de vida presentificados no texto visual. Tal estudo embasou-se na semiótica discursiva de linha francesa desenvolvida por Algirdas Julien Greimas e seus colaboradores, para dar conta da organização do texto fotográfico como uma totalidade de sentido e dar inteligibilidade aos mecanismos de sua produção. Destacam-se, ainda, as orientações teóricas da Sociossemiótica, propostos por Eric Landowski, as formulações de Jean-Marie Floch sobre semiótica plástica e as reflexões sobre auto-retrato a partir de Lauer A. N. dos Santos. Nessa correlação, enfatizam-se os regimes de sentido e de interação, em consonância com os modos de mostrar, bem como as relações identitárias que evidenciam a importância da imagem como objeto de comunicação e de interação entre os sujeitos pelo ato de ver

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Helga Stein.pdf: 4077442 bytes, checksum: 3998a8fd0bc906173990f9d0144b3663 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-30 / The goal of this project is to research how virtual communities such as orkut and flickr are molding new identity and self-presentation parameters. The present project takes as study object photographic self-portraits and its associated representation forms. In self-portraits the relation between the observer and who is observed has blurred limits, demanding a body with a special quality: a body in process. This new body of multiple identities is reconfigured intermittently assuming new behaviors facing new technologies, requiring a new configuration of world. It is expected that digital images reflects these processes by being capable of reconfiguring itself. We show through representation the world we live in. However, contemporary world faces a crisis of representation, knowledge and great complexity in matters of subjectivity production. The images that are produced and propagated throughout a historical period are indications of a specific way of thinking. In virtual communities such as orkut, multiply and flickr, the use of images (especially self-portraits) creates a dynamic process of identification and differentiation of the individual. The identity, however, is influenced by interaction processes (comments of community members, number or visitors). So, the self-portraits are redefined as by the demands of specific sociability matters (the success, in terms of numbers of visitors and content of the commentaries). The influence of new technologies in the way we understand the construction of identity will be interrogated through specific readings and through artistic projects that deals with the concepts presented in the research / O objetivo do projeto é pesquisar como as redes sociais on line estão conformando novos padrões de identidade e auto-representação, tendo como objeto de estudo os retratos e auto-retratos que circulam em comunidades virtuais e suas formas associadas de representação. Nos auto-retratos a relação entre observador e observado tem seus limites borrados, demandando um indivíduo com uma qualidade especial: um indivíduo em processo. Identidades múltiplas que reconfiguram-se intermitentemente, assumindo novo comportamento frente às novas tecnologias, exigem uma nova configuração de mundo. Espera-se que a imagem que representa esses corpos responda a esses novos processos, sendo ela mesma passível de reconfigurar-se. Parte-se aqui do pressuposto que as imagens produzidas e veiculadas ao longo de um período histórico são indícios de um modo de pensar específico. Em comunidades virtuais como orkut e flickr é notável o uso de imagens (especialmente auto-retratos) no processo dinâmico de identificação e diferenciação do indivíduo num ambiente também dinâmico como é o das redes. Essa identidade, contudo, é permeada por processos de interação (comentários, manipulação de imagens) que redefinem o auto-retrato como resposta às demandas de sociabilidade específica (o sucesso, em termos de números de visitantes e conteúdo dos comentários). Através de retratos e auto-retratos será interrogada a influência das novas tecnologias de comunicação na forma como compreendemos a construção da identidade e também através das leituras específicas, da vivência e observação das comunidades virtuais propostas, de projetos autorais e de cunho artístico que lidam com os conceitos apresentados na pesquisa. Como suporte teórico foram utilizados os seguintes autores: Rosalind Krauss, Philippe Dubois, Vilém Flusser e Arlindo Machado abordando fotografia e imagem; Jean Baudrillard e Michel Foucault abordando comunicação e representação; Giselle Beiguelman abordando Internet e arte digital; Carlos Ginsburg abordando aspectos históricos; Edmond Couchot, Oliver Grau e André Parente abordando tecnologia na comunicação; Steven Johnson, Margot Lovejoy e Rogério da Costa abordando redes e comunidades virtuais; Lucia Santaella abordando comunicação e semiótica, entre outros autores.

O objeto desta dissertação de Mestrado é composto pela série Auto-Retrato Coletivo de Nardo Germano. Organizada artisticamente como repositório crítico de uma identidade coletiva seu tema central , a série constitui-se de auto-retratos híbridos entre o Indivíduo e o Coletivo, questionando a construção identitária marcada por estigmas sociais. As obras que compõem a série são: 1)Auto-Objeto; 2)Sujeitos; 3)Auto-Retrato por Metro Quadrado; 4)Cabeça Defronte; 5)Auto-Retr_Ato_Coletivo; 6)Especulares #7; 7)Corpo Coletivo; 8)AlterEgo; 9)ANDROMAQUIA on-line; e 10)Doe Seu Rosto/Give Me Your Face. A atual pesquisa artística dá continuidade a Auto-Objeto(1987), uma obra composta por painéis de auto-retratos sem negativo obtidos em cabine Fotomática, e articula-se a partir da digitalização de um conjunto imanente da obra Sujeitos(1987), colagens realizadas com auto-retratos acéfalos, recortes de textos, imagens e manchetes de jornal. Com o objetivo de, nesta fase, estabelecer novos contrapontos ao discurso monológico identitário oficial bem como ao conceito de uma autoridade do artista como autor que controla os sentidos da obra, a criação partiu da hipótese de que o investimento nos graus de abertura à recepção podem promover o dialogismo e polifonia almejados, com a inclusão da alteridade, das expressões e dos pontos de vista dos espectadores na noção de identidade coletiva veiculada nas obras, considerando os conceitos de obra aberta de Umberto Eco bem como de dialogismo e polifonia de Mikhail Bakhtin. A presente dissertação discorre sobre aquelas obras originais como paradigmas internos da criação e sobre as obras produzidas durante esta pesquisa artística, focando nas proposições dialógicas de poéticas abertas, bem como nas estratégias de participação e interatividade então implementadas, realizadas em ambiente real e/ou através dos meios tecnológicos. O texto explicita e reflete sobre as poéticas de abertura envolvidas na recepção, comprovando por fim a hipótese de trabalho. Em suma, no que tange aos resultados sobre o tema proposto, conclui-se que Auto-Retrato Coletivo promove um movimento contínuo de construção e desconstrução identitária possibilitado pela abertura poética aos espectadores que, convertidos em participantes e/ou interatores, cumulativamente renovam, expandem e problematizam a identidade coletiva, inscrevendo-a na dimensão Utópica de Identidades Abertas. / The object of this dissertation of Master\'s degree is composed by Nardo Germano\'s series Collective Self-Portrait. Organized artistically as critical repository of a collective identity its central theme , the series is constituted of hybrid self-portraits between the Individual and the Collectivity, discussing the construction of identities characterized by social stigmata. The works that compose the series are: 1)Auto-Objeto; 2)Sujeitos; 3)Auto- Retrato por Metro Quadrado; 4)Cabeça Defronte; 5)Auto-Retr_Ato_Coletivo; 6)Especulares #7; 7)Corpo Coletivo; 8)AlterEgo; 9)ANDROMAQUIA on-line; e 10)Doe Seu Rosto/Give Me Your Face. The current artistic research gives continuity the Auto-Objeto(1987), an art-work composed by panels of self-portraits without negative obtained at Photomaton Cabin, and organized through a process of scanning an immanent group of the art-work Sujeitos(1987), collages accomplished with acephalous self-portraits, cuttings of texts, images and newspaper headlines. With the objective of, in this phase, to establish new counterpoints to the monologic official speech about identity as well as to the concept of an authority of the artist as author that controls the meanings of the art-work, the creation worked with the hypothesis that the investment in the opening degrees to the reception can promote the necessary dialogism and polyphony, with the inclusion of the spectators\' alterity, expressions and points of view in the notion of collective identity in the art-works, considering the concepts of Umberto Ecos open work and Mikhail Bakhtins dialogism and polyphony. The present dissertation describes those original art-works as internal paradigms of the creation and the art-works produced during this artistic research, focusing in the dialogical propositions of open poetics, as well as in the strategies of participation and interactivity implemented, in real ambience and/or through the technological media. The text explicits and reflects the poetics of opening to the spectator involved in the reception, proving finally the work hypothesis. In short, with respect to the results on the proposed theme, the conclusion is that Collective Self-Portrait promotes a continuous movement of construction and deconstruction of identities, possible by the poetical openness to the spectators who, converted in participants and/or interactors, cumulatively renew, expand and problematize the collective identity, enrolling it in the Utopian dimension of Open Identities.

Imagine a theater. Build one in your mind. I do not care if it is the largest theater in the universe or if it is the size of a shoebox. The theater can be an elaborate construction with gilded cherubs and priceless jewels. If you would prefer the theater to be a minimal design, imagine it that way. Maybe the theater is made out of glass or crystal. You can be all alone in the theater or maybe you are seated next to an alien, a cave man, or a robot. As the curtain rises an enormous pipe organ is spewing out J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. The sound is colossal. The stage is designed to look like a filthy and bleak art studio. Sculptures that look like decaying flesh hang from the ceiling. Papers and dirty painting rags are scattered all over the floor. A roach crawls towards some moldy food in the wastebasket. A piece of beef jerky sits next to a pile of paint tubes and paintbrushes. Canvases are stacked against the wall. Dried paint is splattered everywhere. A woman enters stage left. As she begins to speak, the music fades… “My most recent paintings are meant to serve as gateways between daily life and an exotic utopian fantasy. These strange psychological spaces function as portals into a new frontier inhabited with the most stupendous creatures. Active volcanoes, carnivorous plants, terrible lizards, pink Chihuahuas, flesh-eating insects, unidentified flying objects, and a host of other amazing things coexist in this cruel tropical paradise. “Everything I do is a self-portrait and a disguise. I imagine the characters in my paintings to be mutant clones. The act of painting is like looking in the mirror. I like to spend most of my time doing one or the other. I am driven by an insatiable urge to see what I truly look like. I suffer from an unfulfilled desire to meet myself. I am frustrated with impressions and reflections. These confessions reveal my work as possibly the most disgusting display of narcissism in the entire history of art. “The act of painting is an absurd and self-indulgent enterprise. I paint with the ridiculous and frivolous purpose of delighting the eye. Nevertheless, my hope is that my paintings capture an important aspect of my utopian fantasy with their sumptuous surroundings embellished with rainbows, natural disasters, butterflies, exotic grasses and bizarre costumes. “My paintings can be read on many different levels from surface to deep allegory. The finished product is the result of hours upon hours of painting, pondering, and dreaming. Below the surface lies a nauseating abyss. “My work is a delicious feast for the aesthetic consumer. I am a villainous mad scientist with a hunger for immortality. My eyes are gluttonous fools. I am a mystery and a deception. Vermillion is my opulent fetish. Lemon yellow is my nemesis.” The music grows louder again. The woman begins to cackle. She then takes a deep breath and a deeper and more dramatic bow. She exits stage right--you find that you want to applaud--but unfortunately, this story is not over. I suggest that you get yourself a snack like some popcorn, chocolate, or gummy bears before reading any further. The curtain slowly and elegantly comes down.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research intends to analyze the imagistic autobiographies representations operated by the image publishing website called fotolog, as parameter of the analysis, the art, specifically the contemporary self-portraits. Therefore, we examined in this paper, the extent to which reality and fiction blend in the production of this identities; and how the resources of art, specifically the image, are used to construct these self-portraits. Overexposure and theatricality are also common features between the two media and will be discussed in the survey. To map the similarities between the virtual identities on the web and the self-portraits of contemporary art we define, as a starting point for this discussion, the fotolog sensationslave and artwork of French Sophie Calle. / Esta pesquisa pretende investigar como se concebem as representações imagéticas autobiográficas no site de publicação de imagens fotolog tendo como parâmetro de análise a arte, especificamente os autorretratos contemporâneos. Sendo assim, examinamos, nessa dissertação, em que medida realidade e ficção se mesclam na produção dessas identidades; e como os recursos da arte, especificamente da imagem são utilizados na construção desses autorretratos. A superexposição e a teatralização também são aspectos em comum entre os dois meios e serão discutidos na pesquisa. Para mapear as aproximações entre as identidades virtuais na web e os autorretratos da arte contemporânea definimos, como ponto de partida para essa discussão, o fotolog sensationslave e o trabalho artístico da francesa Sophie Calle. / Mestre em Artes

O objeto desta dissertação de Mestrado é composto pela série Auto-Retrato Coletivo de Nardo Germano. Organizada artisticamente como repositório crítico de uma identidade coletiva seu tema central , a série constitui-se de auto-retratos híbridos entre o Indivíduo e o Coletivo, questionando a construção identitária marcada por estigmas sociais. As obras que compõem a série são: 1)Auto-Objeto; 2)Sujeitos; 3)Auto-Retrato por Metro Quadrado; 4)Cabeça Defronte; 5)Auto-Retr_Ato_Coletivo; 6)Especulares #7; 7)Corpo Coletivo; 8)AlterEgo; 9)ANDROMAQUIA on-line; e 10)Doe Seu Rosto/Give Me Your Face. A atual pesquisa artística dá continuidade a Auto-Objeto(1987), uma obra composta por painéis de auto-retratos sem negativo obtidos em cabine Fotomática, e articula-se a partir da digitalização de um conjunto imanente da obra Sujeitos(1987), colagens realizadas com auto-retratos acéfalos, recortes de textos, imagens e manchetes de jornal. Com o objetivo de, nesta fase, estabelecer novos contrapontos ao discurso monológico identitário oficial bem como ao conceito de uma autoridade do artista como autor que controla os sentidos da obra, a criação partiu da hipótese de que o investimento nos graus de abertura à recepção podem promover o dialogismo e polifonia almejados, com a inclusão da alteridade, das expressões e dos pontos de vista dos espectadores na noção de identidade coletiva veiculada nas obras, considerando os conceitos de obra aberta de Umberto Eco bem como de dialogismo e polifonia de Mikhail Bakhtin. A presente dissertação discorre sobre aquelas obras originais como paradigmas internos da criação e sobre as obras produzidas durante esta pesquisa artística, focando nas proposições dialógicas de poéticas abertas, bem como nas estratégias de participação e interatividade então implementadas, realizadas em ambiente real e/ou através dos meios tecnológicos. O texto explicita e reflete sobre as poéticas de abertura envolvidas na recepção, comprovando por fim a hipótese de trabalho. Em suma, no que tange aos resultados sobre o tema proposto, conclui-se que Auto-Retrato Coletivo promove um movimento contínuo de construção e desconstrução identitária possibilitado pela abertura poética aos espectadores que, convertidos em participantes e/ou interatores, cumulativamente renovam, expandem e problematizam a identidade coletiva, inscrevendo-a na dimensão Utópica de Identidades Abertas. / The object of this dissertation of Master\'s degree is composed by Nardo Germano\'s series Collective Self-Portrait. Organized artistically as critical repository of a collective identity its central theme , the series is constituted of hybrid self-portraits between the Individual and the Collectivity, discussing the construction of identities characterized by social stigmata. The works that compose the series are: 1)Auto-Objeto; 2)Sujeitos; 3)Auto- Retrato por Metro Quadrado; 4)Cabeça Defronte; 5)Auto-Retr_Ato_Coletivo; 6)Especulares #7; 7)Corpo Coletivo; 8)AlterEgo; 9)ANDROMAQUIA on-line; e 10)Doe Seu Rosto/Give Me Your Face. The current artistic research gives continuity the Auto-Objeto(1987), an art-work composed by panels of self-portraits without negative obtained at Photomaton Cabin, and organized through a process of scanning an immanent group of the art-work Sujeitos(1987), collages accomplished with acephalous self-portraits, cuttings of texts, images and newspaper headlines. With the objective of, in this phase, to establish new counterpoints to the monologic official speech about identity as well as to the concept of an authority of the artist as author that controls the meanings of the art-work, the creation worked with the hypothesis that the investment in the opening degrees to the reception can promote the necessary dialogism and polyphony, with the inclusion of the spectators\' alterity, expressions and points of view in the notion of collective identity in the art-works, considering the concepts of Umberto Ecos open work and Mikhail Bakhtins dialogism and polyphony. The present dissertation describes those original art-works as internal paradigms of the creation and the art-works produced during this artistic research, focusing in the dialogical propositions of open poetics, as well as in the strategies of participation and interactivity implemented, in real ambience and/or through the technological media. The text explicits and reflects the poetics of opening to the spectator involved in the reception, proving finally the work hypothesis. In short, with respect to the results on the proposed theme, the conclusion is that Collective Self-Portrait promotes a continuous movement of construction and deconstruction of identities, possible by the poetical openness to the spectators who, converted in participants and/or interactors, cumulatively renew, expand and problematize the collective identity, enrolling it in the Utopian dimension of Open Identities.

À partir des autoportraits photographiques de Vivian Maier (1926-2009) et Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), la thèse de ce texte est que la figuration féminine nous transmet un art de disparaître. Si l’on établit que cet art serait présent de manière plus ou moins active dans l’ensemble de l’iconographie du féminin, on montre que c’est un contexte particulier qui en révèle l’existence : celui de l’émancipation des femmes depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, de l’invention de la photographie au XIXe siècle et du bouleversement écologique contemporain. En effet, on constate chez Vivian Maier et Francesca Woodman, et plus largement dans l’autoportrait photographique féminin, une écologie poétique déterminée et engendrée par la technique photographique et les mutations modernes dans la vie des femmes, où se rencontrent désormais le destin de la figuration féminine dans l’histoire de l’art et le destin possible de notre espèce. Cette thèse propose de tirer de ces autoportraits un nouveau modèle pour habiter le monde en ce moment de transition historique à l’égard du genre et de la nature. / Drawing from the photographic self-portraits of Vivian Maier (1926-2009) and Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), this thesis argues that feminine figuration conveys an art of disappearing. Establishing that this art is, to a certain extent, at work across the iconography of the feminine, we are showing that it was brought to light within a specific context: the emancipation of women since the end of the 18th century, the invention of photography in the 19th century and the contemporary ecological crisis. Indeed, a poetic ecology emerges through the works of Vivian Maier and Francesca Woodman in particular, and the feminine photographic self-portrait as a whole, determined by the photographic technique and modern changes in women’s lives, where the destiny of feminine figuration in art history converges with the possible destiny of our species. From these self-portraits, this thesis offers to draw a new way of inhabiting the world in this historic moment of transition with regard to gender and nature.

Mémoire en recherche-création / Un endroit familier est composé de trois portraits littéraires. L’auteur y met en relief des moments marquants de la vie de trois membres de sa famille : son grand-père maternel, qui a participé activement à un réseau de radio clandestine dans la France occupée, dans les années 1940; sa grand-mère paternelle, qui a élevé quatorze enfants à Saint-Joachim-de-Montmorency, et dont la longue vie embrasse à elle seule tout un pan de la ruralité québécoise du siècle dernier; puis son arrière-grand-mère maternelle, dont le mari est mort dans les tranchées de Champagne, durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Avec en arrière-plan le vingtième siècle, ses enthousiasmes et ses dérives, cette galerie de portraits en comprend un autre, plus discret, fragmenté, celui de l’auteur qui cherche à mieux comprendre d’où il vient. À la recherche de l’autre, ne sommes-nous pas toujours un peu à la recherche de nous-mêmes ? L’essai qui suit, intitulé Le problème de la mémoire dans le portrait littéraire, aborde le recours aux sources documentaires qu’exige le genre, de même que l’incidence des intentions de l’auteur sur la façon dont les sources seront exploitées. Il est ensuite question du degré d’exclusivité de la mémoire individuelle et de ce qu’implique l’idée, nourrie par la théorie de la postmémoire, notamment, d’une mémoire des traumas où le souvenir de l’un devient le souvenir de l’autre. L’essai se referme sur une réflexion portant sur le pouvoir qu’a la littérature de faire sortir de l’ombre, avec leurs énigmes non résolues, celles et ceux qui nous ont précédés. Et s’il y avait d’abord, au coeur d’une telle démarche d’écriture, le besoin de mieux vivre avec ses morts ? / Un endroit familier is made up of three literary portraits. The author highlights significant moments in the life of three members of his family : his maternal grandfather, who actively participated in an underground radio network in occupied France, in the 1940s; his paternal grandmother, who raised fourteen children in Saint-Joachim-de-Montmorency, and whose long life alone encompasses a vast segment of Quebec rurality of the last century; finally, there will be his maternal great-grandmother, whose husband died in the trenches of Champagne, during the First World War. Against the backdrop of the twentieth century’s enthusiasms and excesses, this gallery of portraits includes as well the more discreet, fragmented image of the author who seeks to better understand where he comes from. Looking for the other, aren't we always looking a little for ourselves ? The following essay, Le problème de la mémoire dans le portrait littéraire, discusses the use of documentary sources required by the genre, as well as the impact of the author's intentions on how those sources will be exploited. Then we will explore the degree of exclusivity of individual memory and the idea, drawn from the theory of postmemory, in particular, of a memory of traumas in which one’s memory becomes that of another. The essay ends with a reflection on the power of literature to bring out of the shadows, with their unsolved puzzles, those who came before us. What if there was first, at the heart of such a writing process, the need to live better with our dead ?

The main topic of this diploma thesis resides in the comparison of the expressionist painting and the existential literature in connection with the motif of screaming. Despite the temporal and geographical distance of the two artistic movements (we are focused more profoundly in the German and Austrian expressionist painting, while the main literary work of this thesis, the existential novel The Fall comes from the great mind of a French writer, Albert Camus), the research aspires to prove the interconnection of the two movements and their common tendencies, based on the analyses of chosen themes, motifs, technics, and structure. We propose the motif of screaming as the main part of the comparison, as it constitutes an essential axis of the occidental art, as well as the crucial contact point between Expressionism and Existentialism. In spite of the bountifulness of the various interpretations this motif offers, we have chosen only selected ideas and concepts. As far as the formal structure is concerned, the work is divided into three chapters, where the first two are focused on the origins, a brief characterization of the main point of the two esthetics. Furthermore, they describe their related counterparts of the visual arts and literature (the Expressionist literature and Existential painting...