Launch | Other Writings. Gestures, Movements, and Inscriptions in Contemporary Art and Poetry.

Wednesday, September 25 → 18:30 → Il Posto Research Center. José Miguel de la Barra 480, office 201. Downtown Santiago.

“Other writings. Gestures, movements and inscriptions in the contemporary art and poetry of Megumi Andrade Kobayashi.

The book proposes a journey through the work of a selected group of contemporary artists, poets, and calligraphers who confronted the problem of illegibility in art with exceptional acuity and sensitivity: Cy Twombly, Henri Michaux, Inoue Yuichi, Mirtha Dermisache, and Mira Schendel. Instead of interpreting themes, motifs, or characters, the author privileges the movements of the hand, the proximity between different materialities, the confrontation of tools and inscription surfaces, and, most notably, the contact between our bodily perception and that which is presented to us as an image in its likeness and difference to writing.

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Marcela Rivera. PhD in Philosophy with a mention in Aesthetics and Art Theory from the University of Chile. Tenured professor in the Department of Philosophy at UMCE.

Sebastián Barrante Gallardo. Artist from the University of Chile and artist's book editor at Naranja Publicaciones.

Fernanda Aránguiz. Publishing artist, independent curator, and director of the publishing house and web platform Publicar.

Megumi Andrade Kobayashi. Academic and researcher at the Faculty of Arts of the Finis Terrae University and academic at the Art Department of the Alberto Hurtado University.