“Voyeur Absoluto”: o olhar e a prótese

Abstract

Investigation into the “gaze” according to three theoretical movements: from retinal to conceptual, from Being to “Haver” and from “gaze” to “voyeur”. The first movement seeks to understand the relation between “gaze” and “image” according to some writers and philosophers of the 20th century associated with the creation process of blind photographers around the world: Evgen Bavcar, Pete Eckert, Gerardo Nigenda, Rosita McKenzie and Seeing with Photography Collective; and also to the blindfolded experiences of the artist Cao Guimarães. The second movement describes the theoretical perspective of New Psychoanalysis, created by MD Magno in 1986, articulating some conceptions of this theory with the investigation into the “gaze”: Haver and não-Haver, Absolute Quay (Fernando Pessoa’s term), Prosthesis, Artifice, Discontentment, Poetic Act and the Five Empires. The reference to the concept of “undifferentiation” is considered as a basic condition of the creation of the 21st century visual technologies that bind neuroscience, cosmology, quantum physics… In the third movement we have the displacement from “gaze” to voyeur based on Marcel Duchamp’s work. So the definition of “Absolute Voyeur” (Evgen Bavcar’s term) is the result of this “Parangolé” (as described by New Psychoanalysis), i.e., of the transaction of these displacements. The interest is in the trajectory, in the trance, in the “undifferentiation” of “gaze” in order to ponder over the conception of a “prosthetic voyeur” analogous to an “initial Prosthesis” (original abyss) which is previous to the oppositions that take place in the realm of Being (subject and object, body and mind, light and darkness, visible and invisible…).