Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa—Program in Progress

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Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida

Block-Experiments in Cosmococa—Program in Progress

Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna), Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

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Afterall Publishing
22 March 2013

Art & design styles: Postmodernism; Electronic, holographic & video art; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Afterall Books / One Work

An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oiticica's most important work of ""quasi-cinema"" on its fortieth anniversary.

Helio Oiticica (1937-1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career, Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearable garments. Building on the idea for a film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Neville D'Almeida, Oiticica developed the concept for Block-Experiments in Cosmococa-Program in Progress (1973-1974) as an ""open program""- a series of nine proposals for environments, each consisting of slide projections, soundtracks, leisure facilities, drawings (with cocaine used as pigment), and instructions for visitors. It is the epitome of what the artist called his ""quasi-cinema"" work-his most controversial production, and perhaps his most direct effort to merge art and life. Presented publicly for the first time in 1992, these works have been included in major international exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and New York.

Drawing on unpublished primary sources, letters, and writings by Oiticica himself, this illustrated examination of Oiticica's work considers the vast catalog of theoretical references the artist's work relies on, from anticolonial materialism to French phenomenology and postmodern media theory to the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Andy Warhol, and Brazilian avant-garde filmmakers. It discusses Oiticica's work in relation to the diaspora of Brazilian intellectuals during the military dictatorship, the politics of media circulation, the commercialization of New York's queer underground, the explicit use of cocaine as means of production, and possible future reappraisals of Oiticica's work.

By: Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz
Imprint: Afterall Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9781846380976
ISBN 10: 1846380979
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 22 March 2013
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sabeth Buchmann, an art historian and critic, is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art and Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz is a writer, translator, and cultural critic specializing in Latin American studies and materialist aesthetics.