HÉLIO OITICICA AND THE COLLECTIVE GENIUS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO A PHILOSOPHY OF SPATIAL ARTS
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https://doi.org/10.13102/ideac.v1i52.12382Keywords:
Collective Genius; Spatial Arts; Participatory Art; Hélio Oiticica; Spatial Communication.Abstract
This paper aims to explore the theoretical and philosophical contributions of artist and thinker Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) through his artworks, writings, and excerpts. Using the creative principle of the collective genius developed in the 1960s, we set out to explore his political presuppositions in dialogue with contemporary ideas about the arts. A key point in this process is the thematization of the political (and public) condition of art creation through what I am calling communicational space, which is a way of understanding what happens when the artist’s own spatiality encounters that of the spectator. In these terms, Hélio Oiticica’s theoretical approach can further an understanding of collaborative or participative art through a collective experience of art. This simultaneously involves a minimal consensus with strong traces of dissension that articulates the perceptive body dimension in this anonymous collective presence.
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