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What is Portugal? How is Portuguese society changing? How does the Portuguese culture interpret and influence social change? How does the tension between what we say we are (identity) and what we say we will be (transformation) illuminates both the situation and the becoming of Portuguese society, whether artistic creations and cultural practices that occur in Portugal? This research project wants to answer these questions. Thus, the main objective of the project Portugal at the Mirror focuses on the analysis of contemporary Portuguese culture from the point of view of the plurality of artistic discourses that circulate it on the tension between identity and societal transformation. The exploitation of this overall goal leads us to the assumption that the artistic discourses are plural, as plural are its objects, themes and points of view: it is, therefore, to grasp how multiple identities and transformations, often conflicting are themed and (re)defined within the cultural creation and reception languages scope. We start from the perspective of the discourses that emerge and circulate in the artistic and social field are not formed only in authorial creation, but also in the interpretations that are critical to their purpose and built in appropriations made by different public. This discursive plurality will focus, in this project, in three creative areas - diverse, but all very enriched by the theme of identities and transformations: literature; the "auteur cinema" as artistic creation at the crossroads between the visual arts and cultural industry; and, in this field, two very important forms of popular music (in the sense of mass culture, not of traditional culture), the song and the pop rock. In fact, we all know the centrality of the issues related to being and becoming Portuguese have had on the artistic creation of novelists and poets, of film makers and songwriters and youth gangs; and how this centrality is one of the axes of the value and uniqueness of  |
Summary
What is Portugal? How is Portuguese society changing? How does the Portuguese culture interpret and influence social change? How does the tension between what we say we are (identity) and what we say we will be (transformation) illuminates both the situation and the becoming of Portuguese society, whether artistic creations and cultural practices that occur in Portugal? This research project wants to answer these questions. Thus, the main objective of the project Portugal at the Mirror focuses on the analysis of contemporary Portuguese culture from the point of view of the plurality of artistic discourses that circulate it on the tension between identity and societal transformation. The exploitation of this overall goal leads us to the assumption that the artistic discourses are plural, as plural are its objects, themes and points of view: it is, therefore, to grasp how multiple identities and transformations, often conflicting are themed and (re)defined within the cultural creation and reception languages scope. We start from the perspective of the discourses that emerge and circulate in the artistic and social field are not formed only in authorial creation, but also in the interpretations that are critical to their purpose and built in appropriations made by different public. This discursive plurality will focus, in this project, in three creative areas - diverse, but all very enriched by the theme of identities and transformations: literature; the "auteur cinema" as artistic creation at the crossroads between the visual arts and cultural industry; and, in this field, two very important forms of popular music (in the sense of mass culture, not of traditional culture), the song and the pop rock. In fact, we all know the centrality of the issues related to being and becoming Portuguese have had on the artistic creation of novelists and poets, of film makers and songwriters and youth gangs; and how this centrality is one of the axes of the value and uniqueness of his artistic expression. Therefore, we will advance enough to, rather than target, if we analytically cross these different forms, enjoying better how those themes and expressions also vary depending on the modes of production and circulation that make the art, culture and communication of our time. |