Heacute;lio Oiticica (1937--1980) occupies a central position in the Latin American avant-garde of the postwar era. Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement at the beginning of his career; Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromatically opulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearable garments. Building on the idea for a film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Neville DAlmeida; Oiticica developed the concept for Block-Experiments in Cosmococa -- Program in Progress (1973--1974) as an "open program": a series of nine proposals for environments; each consisting of slide projections; soundtracks; leisure facilities; drawings (with cocaine used as pigment); and instructions for visitors. It is the epitome of what the artist called his "quasi-cinema" work -- his most controversial production; and perhaps his most direct effort to merge art and life. Presented publicly for the first time in 1992; these works have been included in major international exhibitions in Los Angeles; Chicago; London; and New York.Drawing on unpublished primary sources; letters; and writings by Oiticica himself; this illustrated examination of Oiticicas work considers the vast catalog of theoretical references the artists work relies on; from anticolonial materialism to French phenomenology and postmodern media theory to the work of Jean-Luc Godard; Andy Warhol; and Brazilian avant-garde filmmakers. It discusses Oiticicas work in relation to the diaspora of Brazilian intellectuals during the military dictatorship; the politics of media circulation; the commercialization of New Yorks queer underground; the explicit use of cocaine as means of production; and possible future reappraisals of Oiticicas work.
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