La politización de la mirada en Occidente: problemas, construcciones y reflexiones sobre Latinoamérica.
This study deals with the notion of gaze, understood as all the practices, values, experiences, power games and relationships established within a society, a gaze that is formed from the act of politicization which makes up a scopic regime and is found in different moments of history, in Europe –the Middle Ages and modern times – as well as in the Americas – since the pre Hispanic era. The transformation and construction of this gaze is crossed by the notion of “mimetic episteme”, which is defined as the repetition of knowledge, practices, life perspectives, images and cults that are imitated and adapted by each culture. It is affirmed that in western history the direction of the gaze has been guided by a political power that establishes models or examples to be followed, like types of epistemes that are institutionalized. Based on the repetition or imitation of knowledge, the gaze is directed at the culture which, in the superposition and re-appropriation of patterns, becomes hybrid.
Pastas cerámicas especializadas para la creación de escultura mexicana contemporánea.
This research aims to define the qualities and techniques required by current ceramic materials for the creation of sculptural pieces, offering a balance between aesthetic proposals and technological advances in artistic ceramics with references to the Mexican culture. This study is both basic and applied, starting with a theoretical research methodology and ending with hypotheses testing, leading to a proposal and results. The first chapter begins with the antecedents of Mexican sculptural ceramics, starting from the pre-hispanic era, to colonial times, to folk art, through to the beginnings of Mexican artist ceramics in the 20th century, highlighting the importance of revaluing the roots of raw material and its use within the history and identity of our country. The second chapter covers ceramic materials, exploring regional materials and the basic techniques for ceramic sculptures and murals, exemplified by Mexican workmanship and representative techniques. The third chapter contains a description of novel raw material combinations, their properties and the corresponding results following laboratory tests. The analysis and generation of proposals is carried out with the purpose of creating Mexican modelling materials, both for regional elements and for enhancing technical and aesthetic qualities, characteristics and requirements in the sculptural creation of contemporary ceramics, by means of modified material properties. The proposal of modelling materials with efficient additives will increase the variety of product choices for producing state-of-the-art sculpting and ceramics, in a more specialized manner and to a certain extent to allow controlling the desired results. The latter is a much-needed requirement; the variety of current artistic ceramic themes has widened alongside technological advances, and there is a growing demand for new techniques, materials and processes. This study invites readers to realize that in ceramics, the material, just like the piece to be made, must be rethought and redesigned as well.
Análisis comparativo de las obras de Teresa Margolles, Enrique Metinides Y Martha Pacheco sobre la representación del cadáver.
This study explores the artistic discourses related to the representation of the corpse through the analysis of the works of the Mexicans Teresa Margolles, Enrique Metinides and Martha Pacheco. Beginning with the concepts associated with this subject, such as what is abject, morbid and obscene, studied within different disciplines such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology and the theory of image, taken apart from moral judgments, these are used as analysis strategies for delving into the works of the artists and the reaction of the spectator to these works. Margolles uses the materiality of the corpse as something abject which translates social violence and confronts the spectator’s psyche. The morbidness of Metinides’ photographs reveals the attraction of looking at the corpse and the individual’s ignorance of himself/herself. The obscene in the paintings of Pacheco showing a hyper-visible anonymous corpse demonstrates that the ideals of humanism did not provide dignity to all men. These artists give the spectator a chance to rethink the way in which he/she relates to death and the dead, from the violence that causes these deaths and the violent presence of the corpse for contemporary man.
Mago Melchor: Panegírico de un faquir hermafrodita.
Poética escópica de la rostridad fotográfica. Posibilidad de sublimación de la pulsión escópica.
This research is based on alienated scopic pulsion, as well as the impact and consequences surrounding this alienation of the sight. For the visual review, it is important to become aware of the way we watch and the implications that involve looking and being looked; implications that go from an immanent narcissist-subjective view, up to a political-cultural view which tries to transcend beyond its own moral, ethic, social and cultural paths. The visual-critical studies involve a categorical imperative which analyses the contemporary social sight and the issues surrounding it. The contemporary social way of looking seems to be alienated to unconsciousness, from the impulses that generate desire which are crated from the glance, and transformed into a kind of alienated scopic pulsion. The glance’s reciprocity supplying images that support the sublimation of the scopic pulsion is changing of hands. It is a mimesis of the social repression but, without mèthexis (participation), dressed up with objects lacking sighting, which incite a desire simulation that confers a false satisfaction of the sublimation of the scopic pulsion alienated in simulacra images. Therefore, in this thetic study the problematic of the alienation of the image to the publicity agent and the way it affects the human eye to perceive the world is analyzed, finding that in an excessive repressive environment the sublimation process is altered. This research pretends to generate elements that help subliming the scopic pulsion alienated, an eidetic conscious way to create poetic art through photography, which always implies a face that perennially participates of an enjoyment and a language that are the antithesis of the desire of the Other, in general terms; and the desire, in particular terms, alienated with the publicity image. It seeks to guide the photography artist to fulfil as a writing-light demiurge, immerse in the eidetic poetic language, aware of its own enjoyment which implies the sublimation transfer through the affections-méthexis created in the mnemonic mark of a photographic image.
La construcción de la imagen masculina en la danza clásica; casos particulares de Enrico Cecchetti y Fernando Alonso.