Cacophony (3 minutes) weaves historic events in the fields of art and the politics. It nears different situations and it presents them visually from the point-of-view of the media, the spectacle, dissolving their contents in a crescent aesthetic & flashy surface. The audio perverts this system installing an ironic, cynic or even pathetic order. The work superimposes images and sounds from different contexts in terms of time and space. Formally it is like a mixture of radio and TV. Parts of the sound track of Glauber Rocha¹s film "Cancer" (1968-72) describing a 1968 Rio de Janeiro and the student riots against the ditactorship, the intellectuals¹ gathering at the Museum of Modern Art and the people in the countryside dying as usual. The video shows scenes from the opening ceremony of the XXV International Biennial of São Paulo, 2002. Cacophony establishes a dialogue with Arlindo Machado¹s film "National Complement" - its title was taken as a perceptual provocateur dissociated from its meaning how was called in Brazil the short documentaries that were screened before the feature film at the movie theaters. Also the formal and conceptual aspects of the film influenced my construction it is about official propaganda spectacles of the establishment forces in action either in the military or artistic realm. Activities developed in public scenarios, architectures that shelve systems and collectivities. My comments reverberate resonances of the Brazilian modernist project, history and perspective, non-history, architecture, public space and public image.
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