re-Membering the Feast: Anthropophagia and the Flesh of Words

@ The Grey Space in the Middle

re-Membering the Feast:

Anthropophagia & the flesh of words

Mariana Gusso Nickel, 2023

Text-based installation

Paper, ink, thread, synthetic leather

re-Membering the Feast: Anthropophagia & the flesh of words
presents a research on the Revista de Antropofagia (Journal of
Anthropophagy, 1928-1929), a periodical published in the context of the
Anthropophagic Movement, during Brazilian Modernism.

Anthropophagia, a “tabooed” term that alludes to (mythologies
about) Amerindian cannibalistic rituals in Brazil, was used by
modernist artists to revise knowledge archives linked with
Brazilian colonisation. For that, the journal offered an
interdisciplinary perspective on psychoanalysis, archival studies, and Tupy Cosmologies.

My research is inspired by the following questions:
How is the transfiguration of taboo into utopia presented in the
Revista de Antropofagia? What can contemporary artistic
researchers learn by re-visiting the anthropophagists’ approach to knowledge creation?