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Organic materiality in the 20th century art. plants and animals human and non-human from representation to materialisation.
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Organic materiality in the 20th century art-plants and animals (Human and Non-Human) from representation to materialisation
Publication . Badagliacca, Vanessa; Alves, Margarida Brito
The aim of this research is to focus on organic materiality in the 20th century art, for its
appearance as a protagonist element presented in an artwork for what it actually is rather
than as a mere component or instrument for chromatic or decorative purposes. By
examining some works and specific case studies, organic materiality is suggested as a
filter, and also as a sketch of a method to introduce the elaboration of a problem not to
be solved, but to be left open to a variety of possibilities. Regarding the geographical
span, this research has an international scope, mainly covering the artistic production
carried out in Europe, Northern and Southern America, and Japan in some cases. In this
sense, this work assumes its inevitable incompleteness as an attempt to find a place into
a pluralistic theoretical discourse in art, and more specifically contemporary art, putting
at its core matter as a matter of concern. The present investigation focuses on a kind of
materiality that is, organic in the primal meaning of the term, in other words, an
adjective “relating to or derived from living matter.” Therefore, in order to present the
organic materiality of plants and animals (human and non-human) and their interactions
with the 20th century art this research, over its chapters, counts on the contributions of
history of science and medicine, and philosophical approaches such as philosophy of
nature, philosophy of Vitalism, and philosophical anthropology. Moreover, the cycle of
life of organic materiality became not only the object of research but also the method to
study 20th century art from the point of view selected for this work, whose division in
five chapters reflects this “organic method.” Proposing a spiral curve from birth,
through youth, maturity, ageing and death with the increase of advanced technology and
dissemination of digital media, the apparent disappearance of the organic, seems rather
to propose a reformulation of its meaning. Motivated by contemporary artistic practices
carried out in the first years of the 21st century, this research aim to understand the
organic in the past century, investigating it from a theoretical point of view, but
somehow by asking the organic materiality itself. In other words, the question on the
levels of the organic and the human is developed by interrogating the same organic into
artworks, not represented but presented, materialised.
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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OE
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SFRH/BD/74366/2010