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The present paper tackles the issue of Brazilian visual memory in a discussion about the works of artists and researchers Rosana Paulino and Elian Almeida. More specifically, I discuss the strategies adopted by artists to revisit the representation of black bodies in critical fabulations that contribute to reconfiguring the gaze in/about Brazilian culture. From a conceptual point of view, the article discusses issues such as the role of archives, coloniality and visual culture. Building upon the notion of blotting (rasura) in Leda Martins, I propose the notion of erasure as a theoretical apparatus to understand Brazilian visual memory. Thus, it is expected to contribute with a conceptual category that allows to see the cracks and erasures of visuality in the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the partial results from a research study named "Comunicação, consumo e memória: da cena cosplay a outras teatralidades juvenis" (Call MCTI/CNPq/MEC/CAPES N. 22/2014 - Ciências Humanas, Sociais e Sociais Aplicadas) by the PPGCOMESPM. The relations between cosplay and furry scenes are investigated and the links between the production of cultural/social memory and consumption are evaluated to understand that memory is a communicative and emotional process. Based on historical data of artificial memory systems, of Tartu-Moscow semiotic theory, of meme concept and of consumption theories as well as on fieldwork perceptions, we aim to demonstrate the intricate set of affection memes composing the production of memories in media fan culture scene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from event and simultaneity concepts, the paper examines how the exhumation of the body of President João Goulart was narrated by four newspapers, from the removal of deadly cemetery remains in São Borja/ RS (November 2013 ), to the release of the final report (December 2014). It was examined how exhumation was used to treat memory at the local, regional and national levels, considering simultaneously: 1) Dictatorship (founder event); 2) Jango (subject that connects past and present); 3) Exhumation (new event). The methodology used is the qualitative analysis of texts and sense nucleation around the subject Jango, the exhumation and the past to which it is linked. Differences are detected between the dramatization of local newspapers, the technicality aesthetics of the regional newspaper and the policy moralization of the national newspaper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of meaning and composition techniques used in photographic works of Fred Ramos, Tom Kiefer and Shawn Clover. The studied pictures draws two visual forms of memoirs composition in photography: while the works of Ramos and Kiefer articulate a dialectical construction between remembering and forgetting in the image, Clover will build metaphorical propositions of apprehension of the past processes. Both of them, however, not only have the memory as a representation of an object, but they articulate an imagery critical to all memorialistic act, questioning their assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]