gothic art
AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION
11º - ANGER - 30.01.2024
Life has Death foi o décimo vídeo do projeto Latin Grufti, publicado em 2023. Sua temática envolve a questão da morte na vida, uma perspectiva de que, desde que nascemos, já estamos morrendo, oxidando nosso corpo com a própria respiração, células também morrem, mesmo que dando espaço a novas. Foi um trabalho iniciado ainda em 2021, durante o auge da pandemia, em que o simples "respirar" era uma ameaça. Mostra uma visão própria do Gótico que é um desencantamento com o mundo. A música também faz parte do álbum Pandemia, lançado em dezembro de 2022.
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 que critica a fragilização da mulher e de pessoas queer, pensando num cenário gótico contra resquícios iluministas e dualistas, como feminino e masculino, sensível e racional.
Letra:
You're agil 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 passional
The mind though: too sensible
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.
[...]
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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
21.05.2020
Nesta vídeo-arte, LG trás metáforas góticas do século XIX para a contemporaneidade ao tratar do quarto-casa como local representativo do inconsciente.
Nas primeiras obras literárias góticas, no século XVIII, era o castelo era o locus horribilis da narrativa, onde fantasmas do passado e seres não-humanos assombrariam as personagens.
No século XIX com o American Gothic, o locus horribilis passou do castelo medieval para a casa mal assombrada, na literatura dos EUA.
Na narrativa desta produção, trago este elemento do gótico e insiro no momento de isolamento social devido à pandemia. Somos presos em nós mesmos, com nossos próprios medos e horrores que nos assombram. Nós temos a chave para nos libertarmos de nossas masmorras, mas nem sempre conseguimos vê-las.
A arte é uma chave, use-a para sair da sua câmara de tortura.
2º - HISTERIA - 14.04.2020
Nesta vídeo-arte, critica-se o p.r.e.s.i.d.e.n.t.e. e suas atitudes em relação à pandemia do Coronavírus.
Foi o segundo vídeo produzido por LG, ainda é um bem cru, uma experimentação.
1º - QUARANTINE IS NOW ACTIVATED - 23.03.2020
Primeira videoarte realizada por Latin Grufti no começo da quarentena do Coronavírus em 2020 no Brasil. Mesmo com filmagem e edição muito cruas, é publicada aqui a fim de registro do desenvolvimento artístico começado em um momento tão precário.