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Cosmococa Programa in Progress – Quasi-Cinema CC1 Trashiscapes (1973) is a multimedia installation conceived in New York by the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) in collaboration with the filmmaker Neville D’Almeida (1941), as part of his series Quasi-Cinemas, participative spaces that transcend the cinematographic experience and call into question the contemplative nature of the art object. The decadent urban culture of New York of the 1970s, the performances by the avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith, and “warholian” references to a group of celebrities, among them Jimi Hendrix and Marilyn Monroe, filter into these Quasi-Cinemas. In the re-creation of CC1 Trashiscapes at Lelong, slides of Luis Buñuel´s portrait taken from the cover of The New York Times magazine and decorated with lines of cocaine are projected on two walls of a dark room. Brazilian music can be heard in the background. On the floor, mattresses equipped with pillows and nail files invite the participants to become immersed in what Oiticica termed an instamoment, or the moment in which an individual fuses with the artwork and with other strangers in the room. The Quasi-Cinemas are collective experiences –or experiences ratified by the casual communion among the participants–, transitory spaces for aggression and anarchy, idleness and play.
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