Transplanting Subjectivities

Standing in the street market the Congolese immigrant told me the messenger mask he was selling me was supposed to establish a connection between different worlds. He repeated "before we had internet and cell phones, we had only such masks to talk to other worlds." This image of the African Mask as an intercessor between here and there was so strong and beautiful that it reminded me of the layers that link telematics to ancestral rituals to connect to the spirits and to the dead. This peculiar conversation in French between two foreigners in Berlin inspired me to create a performance associating ritual masks, video circuits and a projection screen, exploring the possibilities of becoming another through the process of communication. This article is a theoretical reflection on this ongoing practice based artistic research, bringing together Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s Amerindian perspectivism, Vilém Flusser’s technical image and Gilbert Simondon’s concept of techno-aesthetics.

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Paola Barreto Leblanc

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Publication date: May 2018

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Pages: 1-6

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[1 ] Federal University of Bahia

Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências Professor Milton Santos, Bahia, Brasil.

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.37

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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[1] MWB Almeida 1990 Symmetry and Entropy: Mathematical Metaphors in the Work of Lévi-Strauss Current Anthropology 31 4 367 384

[2] W Benjamin 1989 Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia S. E. BronnerD. M. Kellner Critical Theory and Society Routledge New York/London

[3] L Clark et.all. 1980 Lygia Clark Funarte: Rio de Janeiro

[4] V Flusser 1981 Macumba, Kirche und Technokratie Flusser Archiv Berlin 2651 X

[5] V Flusser 1999 Shamans and dancers with masks V. Flusser The Shape of things : a philosophy of the design London Reaktion Books 104 107

[6] V Flusser n/d O preto é belo Flusser BrasilAvailable from http://www.flusserbrasil.com/art440.pdf 15 June 2018

[7] B GroysC. Strathausen 2012 Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media New York Columbia University Press

[8] T Gunning 2012 Hand and Eye: Excavating a New Technology of the Image in the Victorian Era Victorian Studies 54 3 495 515

[9] T Gunning 2014 Animating the Nineteenth Century: Bringing Pictures to Life (or Life to Pictures?) Nineteenth-Century Contexts 36 5 459 472

[10] G Kilomba 2008 The Mask G. Kilomba Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism 2nd Edition Münster: Unrast Verlag 15 24

[11] C Lafontaine 2004 L’empire cybernétique : Des machines à penser à la pensée machine Paris Seuil

[12] C. Lévi-Strauss 2000 Mito e significado Lisboa Edições 70

[13] C Lévi-Strauss & and Y. Cantraine 1982 North American Masks The Drama Review 26 4 4 8

[14] S Rolnik 1998 Anthropophagic Subjectivity P. Herkenhoff & A. Pedrosa Arte Contemporânea Brasileira: Um e/entre Outro/s São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

[15] L. G. Santos 2013 Transcultural Amazonas: shamanism and technoscience in the opera São Paulo N-1 Edições

[16] J Sconce 2000 Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television Durham Duke UP

[17] G Simondon 2012 On techno-aesthetics Parrhesia 14 1 8

[18] E Strain 1996 Exotic Bodies, Distant Landscapes: Touristic Viewing and Popularized Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century Wide Angle 18 2 70 100

[19] N Tesla 1901 Talking With The PlanetsCollier’s Weekly Available from http://earlyradiohistory.us/1901talk.htm. 15 June 2018

[20] E. Viveiros de Castro 2002 Perspectivismo e multinaturalismo na América indígena. In Viveiros de Castro, E A inconstância da alma selvagem e outros ensaios de antropologia São Paulo: Cosac & Naify

[21] E. Viveiros de Castro 2007 O chocalho do xamã é um acelerador de partículas R. Sztutman (org). Encontros – entrevistas com Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Rio de Janeiro Azougue Editorial

[22] H. Von Foerster 2003 Understanding understanding: essays on cybernetics and cognition New York Springer-Verlag

[23] I Wills 2009 Edison and science: a curious result Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 40 157 166

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