Helio Oiticica And Neville D'almeida Block-experiments In Cosmococa-program In Progress

An illustrated study that casts a new light on oiticica's most important work of quasi-cinema on its fortieth anniversary. Helio oiticica 1937-1980 occupies a central position in the latin american avant-garde of the postwar era.Associated with the rio de janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career, oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearable garments.Building on the idea for a film by brazilian underground filmmaker neville d'almeida, oiticica developed the concept for block-experiments in cosmococa-program in progress 1973-1974 as an open program : a series of nine proposals for environments, each consisting of slide projections, soundtracks, leisure facilities, drawings with cocaine used as pigment , and instructions for visitors.It is the epitome of what the artist called his quasi-cinema work-his most controversial production, and perhaps his most direct effort to merge art and life.Presented publicly for the first time in 1992, these works have been included in major international exhibitions in los angeles, chicago, london, and new york. Drawing on unpublished primary sources, letters, and writings by oiticica himself, this illustrated examination of oiticica's work considers the vast catalog of theoretical references the artist's work relies on, from anticolonial materialism to french phenomenology and postmodern media theory to the work of jea...

An illustrated study that casts a new light on oiticica's most important work of quasi-cinema on its fortieth anniversary. Helio oiticica 1937-1980 occupies a central