Transvisuality: On Visual Mattering
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Transvisuality : On Visual Mattering. / Michelsen, Anders Ib.
Linguagens Visuais: Literatura. Artes. Cultura . ed. / Karl Erik Schøllhammer; Heidrun Krieger Olinto ; Danusa Depes Portas. Rio de Janeiro : Editora PUC-Rio, Edicões Loyola og IUPERJ, 2019. p. 67-92 2.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Transvisuality
T2 - On Visual Mattering
AU - Michelsen, Anders Ib
N1 - Contribution in English/Publication in Portuguese
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - As we know from the idiom, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what does that mean? What does it mean that the picture, allegedly by its visual nature, can be worth more? And more than words? Nevertheless, it is fair to argue that this kind of conundrum has been a driving force in the approach to the visual since the beginning of depiction. Fascination with the visual, what it is, what it can do, whether it can be trusted – for instance, in the shape of pictures – has proceeded along with hesitation. The visual brings something into the foreground, it appears, but at the cost of scepticismThe idea of transvisuality seeks to develop a new approach to the visual beyond the issue of aliquid statpro aliquo. It aims at developing a practice-based theory of visual expression as a kind of doing, which allows one to focus on the very transience coming hesitantly to the fore when saying a picture is worth a thousand words.The idea of transvisuality approaches the visual as productive, in the sense that it adds constructively to the world. The visual is not predominantly an issue of aliquid statpro aliquo, but a conveyer of something that is thus creative by its own means. It is something that cannot really be grasped if we keep to the mutual ‘grappling’ of the visible and the sayable which informs our idiom, whether one needs the other or not, that is, the visible understood in light of the sayable, in words, or conveying something much different than a sign of language.
AB - As we know from the idiom, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what does that mean? What does it mean that the picture, allegedly by its visual nature, can be worth more? And more than words? Nevertheless, it is fair to argue that this kind of conundrum has been a driving force in the approach to the visual since the beginning of depiction. Fascination with the visual, what it is, what it can do, whether it can be trusted – for instance, in the shape of pictures – has proceeded along with hesitation. The visual brings something into the foreground, it appears, but at the cost of scepticismThe idea of transvisuality seeks to develop a new approach to the visual beyond the issue of aliquid statpro aliquo. It aims at developing a practice-based theory of visual expression as a kind of doing, which allows one to focus on the very transience coming hesitantly to the fore when saying a picture is worth a thousand words.The idea of transvisuality approaches the visual as productive, in the sense that it adds constructively to the world. The visual is not predominantly an issue of aliquid statpro aliquo, but a conveyer of something that is thus creative by its own means. It is something that cannot really be grasped if we keep to the mutual ‘grappling’ of the visible and the sayable which informs our idiom, whether one needs the other or not, that is, the visible understood in light of the sayable, in words, or conveying something much different than a sign of language.
UR - http://www.editora.puc-rio.br/media/e-book%20FINAL_14_PUC_Linguagens_Visuais_fz%20(1).pdf
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-85-8006-271-7
SP - 67
EP - 92
BT - Linguagens Visuais
A2 - Schøllhammer, Karl Erik
A2 - Krieger Olinto , Heidrun
A2 - Depes Portas, Danusa
PB - Editora PUC-Rio, Edicões Loyola og IUPERJ
CY - Rio de Janeiro
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