Drawing signs

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.175885

Keywords:

Cosmogram, Polyptychs, Umbamda, Airport, Photography

Abstract

This photographic essay creates an experimental parallel flow between ethnographic observation and polyptychal photographs, in order to align artistic and anthropological borders between African Brazilian cosmograms – pontos-riscados – and airport markings. The polyptychs explore similarities between a ‘visual vocabulary’ prevalent in cosmograms and airport signs to create lines of flight between between these liminal spaces. Text and images suggest imagining new ways of relating diametrically opposed worlds: umbanda temple / airport; trance / being-in-transit; cosmogram/ airport markings; cure / covid-19. And to open up to multiple temporal dimensions that enable us to dislocate, to perceive anew through an artistic-academic manifestation.

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Author Biography

  • Roderick Peter Steel, Universidade de São Paulo

    Roderick Peter Steel is a PhD candidate and holds a Master’s Degree in Audivisual Media and Processes from the Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA) at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He holds a bachelor in Cinema from pela Boston University (1991). He has worked with documentaries in United States of America (WGBH-PBS) and England. He joins the research groups at USP: Poéticas no Audiovisual, and  LabArteMídia. In his work, he starts with visual experiments to address issues related to different types of montage between body performance and audiovisual performance, within the territory of contemporary art and religions of African origin. E-mail: rodericksteel@gmail.com

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Published

2021-04-23

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021)

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Gesture, image and sounds

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Steel, Roderick Peter. 2021. “Drawing Signs”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 6 (1): e-175885. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.175885.