Potências do vazio: o vídeo entre o niilismo e a transfiguração

Abstract

Since its early expe- riences in the 1960s, the video is characterized by flirting with the emptiness and silence,

for offering us works in which the images appear as a draft or a mumbling, as something yet to come, works that resist interpretation, that seem to border on, sometimes, the complete nonsense. The purpose of this paper is to show that beyond pure negativity or a nihilistic naive gesture, there is in the art of video a radical proposal, an anti- hermeneutic poetic which proposes a new way of dealing with pictures and the world, of “being-in-the-world” - in a way that reason and the search for meaning find themselves replaced by a more embodied and sensory perception, in which being in the world means to feel much more the presence and materiality of things, rather than interpret them.