Cultural bodies

  The Degree Zero of the Screen: The Eye Body in a Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   I should speak in only five minutes, I written a paper on the movie Non Siting the Site, but it is to letlee time not only to read that paper but even to maintain a lecture of only five minutes constrained by a longer paper, from this point I will try to discuss some new issues while also doing some relations between this issues and the paper.   I am interested in a concept trying to continue my theory on a certain relation between Deutzman movie an the effects of the eye of the camera in earlier surrealism, that one of the optical unconcient developed by Rosalind Krauss.  Certainly this concept of the optical unconcient is related not with the idea of the optical provided by op art when all we have in front of us visually are the lines, colors, surfaces and special effects of oculars phenomena’s physical...

  Cinema and Gesture: Regarding Image and Gesture in A Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   The main concept that can relate how cinema is in the very side of film and in the very side of the visual arts, can be the concept of gesture in its relation with the concept of cinema    Let develop how can we theorize and discuss this.    I will first want to explain how gesture is evolved and major to understand how the imagination of cinema started to be considered from the visual art meaning now only the plastic arts coming from painting, drawings, photography, etc., let then late discuss how gesture can be theorized and discussed in cinema coming from the very side of film recording far from the plastic arts meaning discussing it as a matter of the camera and let after try to theorize and discuss how to relate as well as difference both sides    The first way to start to include ...

  A middle way Between Narrative and non-narrative, Environmental Sound in a Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   An statement thinking about sound and music in film and cinema starting from the concept or the idea of silence can be conceptually interesting to an occasion focused on sound and music. Silence is the opposite of sound and music or the symbol of no sound but at the same time the concept from which sound need to be related to be defined as a sound itself, silence or not sound seen as the opposite pair or as the other side of sound as sound need silence to be sound and silence sound to be silence, each one need the other to be itself.    The previous issue remember how Hegel defined and discussed the relation of mutual necessity and oppositions between major pairs, between being and nothing, for example, even considered out of existential parameters, when the idea of nothing appear not...

Another Cartographies: Maria Victoria ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written, composed, created in english by Abdel Hernandez San Juan    As an issue itself cartography is encresently becoming a curiosity and inspiration motive to more than a few visual artists since decades ago, argentinean painter cuitca, for example is being exploring maps as me too since many years ago, complexioning it as a full individual exhibit at my charcoals Gathering the Dispersed Energy at Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, EUA 1996 defined as “maps of senses”, moving from map-territories relations to abstract surfaces and recently relations map, life, travels and cities.    I has never seen, however, a ŵell focused exploration through cartography as in Maria Victoria plastic works. Certainly focusing mainly on it, she is moving cartography from being simply a visual fascination ŵith antiques or ancient visual effects of maps in fashionist aesthetics surfaces, to also seen cartography as a co...

  A Sense of Communion: Cindy Sherman ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Theoretician, Ethnographer and art critic Free Lance  Written, conceived, composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan    I am persuaded to discuss The Complete Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman, a visual catalogue she did herself published at the Museum of Modern Art, 2003, a product catalogue she did selecting several between her oŵn Film Stills photography’s. I am persuaded first because I has never experienced before a well communicated sense of communion in and on our oŵn values in today USA, specially values I believe, visually, than enjoying her catalogue   I am clear about that in doing so Cindy is probably experiencing something personal about herself, revisiting herself by choosing images, but she did it composed from today as a propositional ŵhole which is to me what really matter as a general statement also on her.    To me her catalogue evoques a visual sense o...

   General Bibliography Barthes, Roland The Responsibility of Forms, Essays on Music, Art and Representation, The University of California PressEco umberto, la estructura ausente, lumen Eco umberto, la estructura ausente, lumen Eugenio quetzil Castañeda, Eugenio quetzil castañeda, https://www.academia.edu/81422165/The_Invisible_Theatre_of_Ethnography_Performative_Principles_of_Fieldwork Hernandez San Juan Abdel, 1996- Beyond the Intertextual. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, Conference Lectured at the Fondren Library Lectures Auditorium as a guest of the faculty of classical and Hispanic studies in his area of research of semiotic, theory of art, anthropology, curator at the alejandro otero museum of visual art, coordinated by Surpic Angelini and Hector Urrutibeity, translated by Graciela daichman, 45 minutos version of a paper The posmodern work. By Abdel Hernandez San Juan, translated by Gabriel, translations coordinated by surpik angelini and transart Foundation, Rice Universit...