Study of contemporary image construction in an experimental process between theory and practice

Abstract

The paper deals with the experience report of a project developed with students of the discipline Poetic Languages: The contemporary “Image”, part of an interdisciplinary master’s program. The project proposal was elaborated as means to contribute to the understanding of ways of articulation and construction of images in contemporary times, as well as starting reflections on said subject’s theory, processes and practices that take into consideration technical hybridities and relational structures. The project accomplished an art intervention at a social and cultural space, dedicated to children in need, in the town of São Carlos, São Paulo state (Brazil). The activity was developed throughout 135 hours, equivalent to the designated class hours of the discipline’s semester, implicating not only the professor, five master’s degree students,  but also the educational coordinators, workers and children supported by the social project. Comprising both research methodologies and field studies in the artistic area, this work concludes in a report of the production of lambe-lambe style posters, since its literature research, up until the fruition of before mentioned art intervention. Both the research and the practical activity procedures brought to light a need to dominate processes of imanence and transcendence when phenomena get mixed up with our own experiences. As a final result to this project, one can say that it was possible to comprehend relations between what’s sayable and non-sayable, visible and non-visible, when concerning images, all while establishing consistent exchanges between theory and practice.