NEW HETEROTOPIAS:

LUCAS BAMBOZZI AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATIONS AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC DISPOSITIF TO URBAN SPACE

Abstract

This study seeks to relate the notion of cinematographic dispositif, found in André Parente, Philippe Dubois, and Anne-Marie Duguet with the post-structuralist notion of dispositif in Deleuze and Foucault by analyzing four audiovisual installations by artist Lucas Bambozzi. The lines of a dispositif relate to the cinematographic apparatus as we displace the works to the urban space, with its subjective, political, and social implications. I propose an analysis of these works from the main categories of the cinematographic dispositif – environment, technological resources, and interaction with spectators – to trace the sentimental cartographies (Suely Rolnik) created and recreated by the works and their interactions in the city. At the end, one notices how not only the works subvert the cinematographic dispositif but also the discursive and power dispositifs in the relations between the individual and its collectivity, generating urban heterotopias which depart from the imaginary to sociability.