Arts and culturesExploration
The time that doesn't fit into the clock
From the Maya calendars to the day outside of the time of José Argüelles: measuring a duration and inhabiting it are two experiences that can illuminate each other.
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Perspectives · 19 readings
Arts and Cultures.
Imagination, cinema, poetry and forms of feeling. Knowledge through creation.
19 articles
Arts and culturesAnalysis
432 hertz: what do we ask of music?
A tuning frequency can become an artistic choice or a spiritual symbol. Understanding it requires listening to context as well.
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Arts and culturesInvestigation
Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria: three maps of our search for origins
An ancient dialogue, a zoological hypothesis and a twentieth-century book have different stories. Following them allows us to understand how imagined continents are born and changed.
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Arts and culturesInvestigation
Byrd: which diary, which Pole?
Antarctic exploration and tales about the Inner Earth meet in the name of a man. Inventories, dates, and provenance allow us to reconstruct what the sources really document.
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Arts and culturesAnalysis
Carmelo Bene: the voice interrupts the explanation
The scene becomes an acoustic space and the text meets the body of the voice. A theatrical research that changes the question of what it means to listen.
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Arts and culturesAnalysis
Carmina Burana: fortune changes voice
Centuries pass between a medieval collection and the scene of Orff, choices and new sounds. Body and power go through both stories, without making them identical.
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Arts and culturesExploration
What changes when the frame changes
Editing, music, and visual matter can transform a question before explanations. Art offers a laboratory to recognize how we build what we see.
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What changes when a voice changes language?
Translating a text means choosing what must remain recognizable. Rhythm, images and spiritual words make visible the work that connects different cultures.
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Arts and culturesAnalysis
Dalí shifts the point from which we look at the sacred
The Christ seen from above and the Cenacle within a transparent geometry transform familiar images. Two paintings open a question about the position of the viewer.
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Arts and culturesInvestigation
Fawcett, Ibez and the tracks that remain in the forest
The disappearance of 1925 and the esoteric re-readings of the Roncador call for a research capable of distinguishing document, book and interpretation. Even a small note can change the perspective.
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The generative feminine and the images that limit us
Symbolic language can open up research on creation. To remain fertile, it must leave people the freedom to exceed the roles we assign to them.
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The Rooster of Socrates and the Debt That Remains
The Fedone's last words open up a broader problem than heroism. Being consistent also means responding to what we have promised.
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Does the sacred still know how to laugh?
The table of the Gospels and the library of Umberto Eco open a question about the relationship between joy, authority and spiritual life.
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The other journey begins before departure
Brazil can become a question to our gaze: do we meet a place or do we seek only confirmation of our idea of transformation?
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The soul as a question for the imagination
James Hillman invites to read a life also through images and vocations. A perspective that can open meanings without transforming them into an imposed destiny.
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Peace is also learned outside the classrooms
The Brazilian experience of UNIPAZ opens a question about the relationship between knowledge, presence and collective responsibility.
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Mayakovsky and the future on stage
The tragedy of 1913 and Funny Mystery bring into play the relationship between poet, audience and transformation. The novelty of forms opens a conflict over who can imagine the world.
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Before the Garden: Ea and the Work of Humans
The Mesopotamian narratives of creation question fatigue, intelligence, and responsibility. Reading them from the tablets gives back to the myth its complexity.
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Sappho and what the fragment leaves open
Surviving words demand reading and imagination. Attributions and gaps are part of the encounter with an ancient voice.
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