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BLOG de Jorge Tiago Martins
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quarta-feira, abril 18, 2007
The videoclip is terrible. It lacks taste in every sense.
But the sound is perfect. Minimal yet a massive explosion of senses overcoming self-containment. The aesthetics of simple elements and compounds. A futuristic music which has the enchantment of projecting the compulsive listener to wider horizons. And what to say about the underlying concept? Téo & Téa, twins for the idea of love.
Disturbance can be defined as a temporary change in average environmental conditions. The vast empire within us often suffers severe disturbance. Main land desintegrates and a sense of departure arises. Inland is multiplied in a series of filmic sequences. Asynchronous. Non-logical. Timeless.
I went to see David Lynch's Inland Empire. To me, these almost three hours of demential delirum and hallucination are a sympton of that desintegration.
The main character's desire of trespassing fidelity ("strange, what love does", says the soundtrack) comes back and around to haunt her in the form of fierce guilt as she enters in a sucession of panic rooms. And the sense of deja vue settles down to cause disquietness. It is today but it is tomorrow. Or tomorrow is announced today in the fashion of greek tragedy. WE, spectators, are the participating choir. We definitely have a role to play.
«Está escuro, diz Elvira, acenda o texto, respondo-lhe». [Maria Gabriela Llansol]
About me
Jorge Tiago Martins
jorgetiagomartins@gmail.com
PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield, Researcher. Citizen of the world.
Interests: Information Studies, Elearning Policies, Digital & Information Literacies, Learning Environments.
«Techniques of the observer»
MMVIII
"O lavrador de café", by Cândido Portinari (1939). When a new year begins with the sense of a new journey and happy discovery, all one has to do is grab that feeling and carry it joyfully along the days. I will always want to remember that once in Brazil, I almost saw this painting in loco, if it wasn't for the fact that it was stolen a few days before I arrived. Fortunately it was recovered. But my personal discovery was that I have learnt to read and admire this painting during its temporary absence. Actually, in those days, what became overwhelmingly present in my mind was the strong presence and visual heavyness (so conceptually centred in the man as workforce), which to me are this painting's most relevant and deep utterance.
MMVII
"Flat Time I-IO", by John Lathan (2004). What immedietely drew my attention in this artpiece was how it explores the non linearity of time, its textual, page-like texture, folding and unfolding. That's why I myself remember when I´ve lost and expanded my time. Time flows, it bounces back and forth. To me.
MMIII - MMVI
Como é estimulante a descontinuidade que podemos observar no estatuto das imagens. Com esta negação
Magritte ironiza a alteração da percepção. É a nossa ontologia de observador que muda.
«Signs and my [textual/audio] meanings»
«O Vice-Cônsul» / «India Song»
Nina Simone is condensed overwhelming sorrow with sparkling rays of hope and salty seduction.
"Antony and the Johnsons", music-drama-box; melody for souls in search of both the absolute and the void.