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Observing our time implies the recognition of a disturbing symptom:
a society driven by techno-scientific utopianism, seeking to
obliterate and forget the forms of vulnerability and finitude. Dealing
with a condition that is denied and relegated to the margins
calls us to open new dimensions of inclusiveness, if we recognize
the demand to integrate the new and the different. Art has always
been able to make space for offering new ways of seeing – from our
common exposure to the fragility of being.
Theater of Apparitions is a research project informed by contemporary
artistic creation. It aims to show some configurations
of this common space fertilized by the creation of place for the
totally other as an apparition, i.e., as a destabilizing event and insurrection
– a term to which Georges Didi-Huberman gave renewed
meaning – creator of the human being. The aim will be to create
and recreate the conditions for welcoming the manifestations of
wonderment – recovering the broad meaning of Greek thaumazein
– and its relational intensities, reaching light for the cartographies
emerging from the ordinary, in a series of multidisciplinary cultural
initiatives capable of showing this moving horizon where uncertainty
and trust, discovery and recognition are mixed.
It will be a matter of showing the constellation of the encounter
between now and the past, one that brought out the critical energy
of the dialectical images about which Walter Benjamin spoke.
Invoking the being and knowledge of the different agents of the
imagination, we will seek to undertake innovative readings of the
multiple bridges and connections that can be established between
the arts, sciences and the humanities. For that it is necessary to make
wonderment the first – and most original – relational technology.
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EDITORS:
José Guilherme Abreu
Centro de Investigação em Ciência e Tecnologia das Artes, Universidade
Católica Portuguesa | www.orcid.org/0000-0003-4022-7771
Mário Caeiro
Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Politécnico de Leiria
www.orcid.org/0000-0001-8654-6757
Laboratório de Investigação em Design e Artes do Politécnico de Leiria
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura da Universidade
Católica Portuguesa
AUTHORS:
César Barrio, Dominik Lejman,
Jo Joelson, José Guilherme Abreu,
Rodrigo Silva, Rudolph Bauer,
Simeon Nelson
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Rafaela Abreu
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Politécnico de Leiria