{"id":273,"date":"2021-04-13T17:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/publication\/paths-of-literature-in-the-matlit-lab-a-humanities-laboratory\/"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T15:52:14","slug":"paths-of-literature-in-the-matlit-lab-a-humanities-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/publication\/paths-of-literature-in-the-matlit-lab-a-humanities-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Paths in the MATLIT LAB: A Humanities Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Exhibition, doubly framed by the overwhelming presence of the book in the CLP room and by the synoptic representation of the PhD in Materialities of Literature, presents a laboratory in which, through successive iterations, a single reagent is poured over the literary object. Can we say that this reagent consists of the ultimate and very first question what is literature?<\/em> But more than just appeasing answers, what results, we hope, is a reenactment of that very question as it echoes in several others by the variety of the exhibited contributions, materials, and authorships. Ultimately, we present an exhibition (and a catalyst) of the multiplicity and materiality of literature: a dimension that is immediately evident in the media diversity of this catalog of printed, digital, video, radio, performative, and visual works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can read, throughout these various works, the absence of words, notes on language and reading, re-readings and dialogues with previous texts, processes of writing and rewriting, hypotexts and hypertexts, as well as relations with and reactions to social events. Available works include book-poems, combinatorial poems, video poems, video performances, book-objects, online stories, radio experiments, combinatorial anthologies, literary-gaming applications, verbal and intermedia performances, literature that goes off the page, hybrid objects, works that are difficult to fit in any typology, and even anti-works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically, the multiplicity of possibilities that we see here reflects both the collaborative nature of the exhibition, and the unlikelihood of providing a single and definitive answer to the above-mentioned question-reagent. Everything as if, however, a complex reading of the multimedia world in which we live would find its equivalent in the plural forms in which we understand and read literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curatorial team
<\/em>Francisco Silveira, Nuno Meireles, Patr\u00edcia Reina, Pedro S\u00e1 Valentim and Thales Estefani.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":496,"template":"","categories":[48],"tags":[87,83,84],"class_list":["post-273","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-creativity","tag-materialities-of-literature","tag-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matlitlab.uc.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}