A videoarte no Brasil: uma perspectiva histórica - O Festival Videobrasil e a trajetória de Eder Santos como estudos de caso

Abstract

In a context of expansion of the world of art and artistic activities, we realized the need to analyse the use of video by artists, which originated the creation of a new artistic segment, the videoart. We intend to explore the conceptualization of the term in the context in which it was involved in order to present the history of this activity in Brazil. The study, divided into three chapters, establishes, in the first one, a wider view exploring the production of videoart pioneers in Brazil and clarifying issues surrounding it as an artistic activity in the 1970s. In the second and third parts, we carry out more specific cuts starting from the 1980s context. The second chapter explored the presence of videoart in the Videobrasil Festival, focusing the editions from 1983 to 2001. During this view’s analysis, we map the changes which occurred in this universe and that are organized in three stages: Stage 1 (1983-1985); Stage 2 (1986-1990); Stage 3 (1992-2001). In chapter three we present a study case of the artistic career and aesthetic production of Eder Santos, pointing out the change of his career through perspective with the transformations occurred on Videobrasil Festival and in the context of contemporary art in general.