Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida : Block experiments in cosmococa--program in progress / Sabeth Buchmann and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz.

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Buchmann, Sabeth [Browse]
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English
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  • London, England : Afterall, 2013.
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : The MIT Press.
  • ©2013
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116 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.

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    "Hélio Oiticica is one of the key figures of Brazil's tropicalia movement. During his stay in new York, and together with film-maker Neville D'Almeida, Oiticia [sic] conceived Block experiments in cosmococa, program in progress (1973-74), a series of nine 'supra-sensorial' environments, each incorporating slide projections, soundtracks, cocaine powder drawings and instructions for visitors. The work is the epitome of what Oiticica called his 'quasi-cinemas', and of his desire to merge individual 'life-experience' with art. In this book, Sabeth Buchmann and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz consider the effect the New York underground scene and Brazilian avant-garde cinema had on the Cosmococas. They draw together the influence of concrete poetry and the writings of Marshall McLuhan, Henri Bergson, and others, to present a rich analysis of the work and its experimentation with duration, its blurring of formats and languages, and its modes of spectatorship"--Back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Beginnings and 'begeenings'
    • Jardim de guerra, Mangue Bangue, Cosmococa: CCI, CC3, CC5
    • Jardim Botânico, Whitechapel, Babylon: the supra-sensorial genealogy of the Cosmococas and their extended media apparatus
    • Entangled genres, entangled media: Tropicália. CC2, CC4, CC6
    • The Cosmococas through a different media theory: CC1 trashiscapes : The cut through the eye ; Participation is (not just) a matter of temperature ; Erasing by repeating ; Where time forks
    • Postcript: Looking back at the 'begeenings'.
    Other title(s)
    • Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida, Cosmococas
    • Block experiments in cosmococa, program in progress
    • Cosmococas
    ISBN
    • 9781846380969 ((hardback))
    • 1846380960 ((hardback))
    • 9781846380976 ((paperback))
    • 1846380979 ((paperback))
    SuDoc no.
    ART MX 88.31 OIT
    LCCN
    2012464655
    OCLC
    813930842
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