O último ato: reflexões sobre performance, morte, violência e transcendência

Abstract

This text presents a serie of visual works, especially performances that establish relations between death, eroticism, sacred and profane space. There is an emphasis 1960s and 1970s production however from the second section more recent works appears. The study is also an exercise in creative writing, inspired by Aby Warburg Atlass, containing imagery and textual resonances and their connections during the writing process. As the Warburgs plates, images come together forming constellations, whose brightness varies in flashes between Eros and Thanatos. The oscillations between images is where the art object is. Each chapter consists of an atlas and their constellations