Date: December 11, 2012
Location: UFMG School of Fine Arts Auditorium.

Proposed and organized by Maria do Céu Diel, Resident Professor at IEAT, the Seminar aimed to encourage dialogue on the topic with researchers, students, artists and professors at the University and, also, with the other Resident Professors at IEAT.

The Seminar sought to map the influence of authors/artists in the academic context. Proposing a reading of this influence, anatomy emerges as an allegory of influence, with the researcher being a ‘survivor’ of the strong author and his predecessor, as Harold Bloom wrote. The Seminar was attended by researchers and artists from the areas of Literature, Education, Journalism, Fashion, Dance, Architecture, Restoration and Conservation and Music, who, through exhibitions and debate tables, presented their reflections on the notion of anatomy and , also, about the actions of survival and production in the context of the anguish of influence. Through oral presentation and exchange of knowledge, the invited authors/artists presented their strong authors and theorized about how these authors survive.

The Seminar made it possible to observe, as the event organizer highlighted, how certain artists approach others carefully, in a clash that wavers between rapture and reason. This struggle brings to fruition the layers of construction of understanding, in a wave of adhesion and detachment. Getting closer, moving away, diving, rubbing against the strong artist’s work are movements that produce wounds and scars, which prepare the skin of his creative body for other trials. Strengthened in the imaginal exchange, artists who admire strong artists also become fortresses, emanating in their images/texts/voices directions and meanings to which others will follow, groping, fingering, scarifying their own skin to perceive other organisms, other embodied images. , fragments of the strong artist. Aesthetic choice as a political choice, strong artists who read/see/listen to other strong artists see them astigmatically so they can survive and find themselves later, transformed, deviated.