gothic art
12º - CORPO SECO - 28.11.2024
Music video for the Corpo Seco (Dry Body) series, part of the art project LATIN GRUFTI, created by Talita Rauber. Corpo Seco is a collection of works across various media triggered by a strand of the Gothic known as "Eco-Gothic," which addresses anxieties surrounding climate crises. It merges the destruction of nature with the urban legend of the Corpo Seco, the story of a man who, after killing his mother and committing atrocities, is rejected by both God and the Devil. Cursed never to die, he becomes a withered, undead creature.
This work was a cultural initiative supported by the Paulo Gustavo Law (Supplementary Law No. 195/2022), through Public Call Notice No. 02/2023 - Funding for the Execution of Audiovisual Cultural Actions, by the Municipal Superintendency of Culture of Pouso Alegre, MG.
Lyrics:
It tore a hole in my body
A grave for the tears of the sky
Frozen, breaking piece by piece
Drenching the living earth
(Pre-chorus)
Dry skin
stuck to the bones
Long hair
Long nails
(Chorus) (2x)
Violated and assaulted me (4x)
Corpo Seco
Doesn't even deserve to die
Corpo Seco
The curse has fallen
11º - ANGER - 30.01.2024
The central theme of this work is anger, specifically related to the choleric humor—one of the four temperaments of Hippocratic theory, associated with yellow bile. The song "Black is my Anger" (2015), by the duo Minuit Machine, served as the starting point for the project's development.
The video, filmed by Marcelo Educa in an abandoned slaughterhouse, presents a theatrical staging of internal rage. Unlike the cited reference, which associated anger with the black bile of the melancholic humor, this interpretation opted to use yellow, relating it to pancreatic bile. The lyrics explore the tension between contained anger and the difficulty of its externalization, culminating in the idea of an "impossible rage" that can neither be expressed nor endured.
(inside me…)
If anything happens
I’m about to explode
I feel this anger
I fall in this hole
The anger inside me
A scream needs to go out
I want to break things
I want to jump out, of myself (2x)
This anger inside me (4x)
Anger (4x)
Impossible anger
Go out (3x)
Anger (3x)
Go out (3x)
Impossible anger, go out
Bloody cavern of heart
Black hole of my mind
It feels always so hard
to seek for better signs
My stomach is melting
My limbs are so shaky
The eyes see the only target
of anger
But I just want to forget
This anger inside me (2x)
Impossible anger, go out, got out
Anger (4x)
Impossible anger
Go out (3x)
10º - LIFE HAS DEATH - 16.03.2023
Life has Death was the tenth video of the Latin Grufti project, published in 2023. Its theme involves the issue of death in life, a perspective that, since we are born, we are already dying, oxidizing our body with our own breathing, cells also die , even while giving space to new ones. It was work that began in 2021, during the height of the pandemic, when simply "breathing" was a threat. It shows a unique vision of the Gothic that is disenchanted with the world. The song is also part of the album Pandemia, released in December 2022.
9º - PLAGUE - 28.02.2022
“Plague” was the ninth video, posted on February 28, 2022, 3'38'' long, made in partnership with dancer Dani Durães. The video talks about disease, plague as punishment, suffering. The movements mix modern and contemporary dance, Dani Durães' repertoire, with body expression and Butoh influences in my performance.
“Butoh often works in the area of the absurd, or the grotesque, and can seek the image of two edges: the beautiful in the ugly, the old in the young, the dark in the light. The extremity is a characteristic [...]. Extreme slow motion, frenetic movement, extreme emotional expressionism, animal states, strange hybrid characters or material qualities that “reform” the body.”
(FRANCES apud KOAN, 2022)
8º - OZEAN - 4.12.2021
Artistic Collab from Latin Grufti, Line1Blue and Dani Durães.
Lyrics in German
Ich sehe, der Sturm ist kalt
Ich sehe den Sturm, egal
Weiter wird mein Körper
Eins mit der Nacht
Hin und her dümpelt mich der Ozean
Und dann wird mein Fleisch Teil des Ozeans
Ich versinke mich selbst
Alles ist so schwarz
Ich will nicht aufwachen
Aus diesem Traum
English:
I see, the storm is cold,
I see the storm, I don't care
Soon my body will be one with the night
The ocean rocks me back and forth
And then my flesh will be part of the ocean
I sink into myself
Everything is so black
I don't want to wake up
Of this dream
7º - FRAGIL-E - 20.08.2021
20.08.2021
Video that criticizes the weakening of women and queer people, thinking about a gothic scenario against Enlightenment and dualist remnants, such as feminine and masculine, sensitive and rational.
Lyrics:
You're agile words
come crashing us
trying to break us
willing to weaken us
but after centuries
of old injuries
our shield is stronger
fragile no longer
We ain't fragile at all
Reason said: too passionate
The mind though: too sensitive
The body told: too fragile
Abjection of the rational
We ain't fragile at all
6th - ONE NEED NOT BE A CHAMBER - 25.04.2021
04/25/2021
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
[...]
[...]
Ourself, behind ourself concealed,
Should start most;
Assassin, hidden in our apartment,
Be horror's least.
The prudent carries a revolver,
He bolts the door,
O'erlooking a superior specter
More nearby.
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First music video from the Latin Grufti project.
The lyrics are part of the poem "One need not be a chamber", by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), which was of great importance in North American literature. She was a forerunner writing about Gothic themes that would only be further developed in the 20th century.
This video is intended to be an artistic interpretation of the poem. And in its entirety with the song I think of it as an artistic production of and for the 21st century gothic scene.
5º - ORGANIC SYNTHESIS - 15.07.2020/10.04.2021
September 2020
It is an audiovisual that deals with post-human gothic themes.
In a world where there is no longer any possibility of living in the human body, a channel for transferring data to another, post-human body is found.
This work is a metaphor for how much human beings move further away from nature and closer to cybernetic technology, transforming themselves in so many ways, to survive more and more.
But does this keep us from being human? What is it to be human, finally, if not an Enlightenment conceptual construction that left so many people outside the human box, such as the poor, women, black people, Jews, and so many other people who did not adapt or did not agree with the " human".
At the end of the day, animals want to survive, whatever the cost.
This audiovisual was awarded by the Aldir Blanc MG Law, Notice 09/2020.
4º - DAS LEBEN - 14.06.2020
14.06.2020
It's a song/audiovisual that talks about depression and isolation.
The lyric-poem talks about physical pain and mental confusion, time passes and we are still trapped in social isolation, unable to see the light.
Das Leben
Wenn mein Gehirn den Verstand verliert,
weiß ich nicht was ich machen soll
This is just the way in meinem Kopf
Und meine Seele ist so verwirrt
Ich überlege, ich bleibe Still
merke den Schmerz an meinem Stirn
Die Augen blinken, die Zeit vergeht
Und alle Muskeln tun so weh
Schwer ist das Leben
Wir leiden so sehr
Die Tage vergehen
verhaftet in Zimmern
die Welt ist gefährlich
weit weg ist das Licht
Tradução (adaptada)
A vida
Quando meu cérebro perde o entendimento
Eu não sei o que devo fazer
São tantas coisas na minha cabeça
E a minha alma está tão confusa
Eu reflito, eu permaneço quieta
Percebo a dor na minha testa
Os olhos piscam, o tempo passa
E todos os músculos doem tanto
Difícil é a vida
Nós sofremos tanto
Os dias passam
Presos nos quartos
O mundo é perigoso
Tão longe está a luz
3º - HEADACHE / DOR DE CABEÇA - 21.05.2020
05/21/2020
In this video art, LG brings gothic metaphors from the 19th century to contemporary times by treating the bedroom-house as a representative location of the unconscious.
In the first Gothic literary works, in the 18th century, the castle was the locus horribilis of the narrative, where ghosts from the past and non-human beings would haunt the characters.
In the 19th century with the American Gothic, the locus horribilis went from the medieval castle to the haunted house, in US literature.
In the narrative of this production, I bring this Gothic element and insert it in the moment of social isolation due to the pandemic. We are trapped within ourselves, with our own fears and horrors that haunt us. We have the key to free ourselves from our dungeons, but we can't always see them.
Art is a key, use it to get out of your torture chamber.
2º - HISTERIA - 14.04.2020
In this video art, the p.r.e.s.i.d.e.n.t. is criticized. and their attitudes towards the Coronavirus pandemic.
It was the second video produced by LG, it is still very raw, an experiment.
1º - QUARANTINE IS NOW ACTIVATED - 23.03.2020
First video art made by Latin Grufti at the beginning of the Coronavirus quarantine in 2020 in Brazil. Even with very raw filming and editing, it is published here in order to record the artistic development that began at such a precarious time.