O Carnaval é um Palco, A Ilha uma Festa: Da performance cultural à exposição da sua metaperformance videográfica

Abstract

This paper is concerned with intangible cultural heritage as performance, and its representations in ethnographic museums as metaperformance. It focuses on the need to use images in movement, following artistic-documentary video practices, as a manner of exhibiting anthropological content. Firstly, I will present theoretical arguments for the importance of using visual material in representing cultural elements that are also visual, in particular in the case of non-verbal communication. Then I will exemplify my reflection by applying it to the specific case of the exhibition The Carnival is a Stage, The Island a Feast held at the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon, at the Angra do Heroísmo Museum (Azores), and at the Espaço do Conhecimento - Museum of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), in which I portrayed the Carnival Dances of the island of Terceira through a multichannel video installation with various projections.

Keywords

• intangible cultural heritage
• exhibition
• visual anthropology