2018-2021: Na encruzilhada entre o moderno e o contemporâneo - Considerações sobre “Isto não é um poema”, “O Real Resiste” (videoclipe), “Algo Antigo”, de Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

In 2018, due to the presidential elections, Arnaldo Antunes posted a manifest-video on social media, entitled "Isto não é um poema". From then until 2021, the poet from São Paulo managed his artistic work according to the political context that was outlined throughout this demarcated period. In 2018, he posted the manifest-video on social media regarding the presidential elections, in 2019, with President Jair Bolsonaro assuming his first term, he released the music video for the single "O Real Resiste", followed by a video commentary on the process of creating the music video, which had the participation of the Brazilian journalistic collective Mídia NINJA in the production. In 2020, the year of the beginning of the COVID 19 pandemic, the album "O Real Resiste" is released, and months later it will raise in the online presentation "O Real Resiste Ao Vivo". In 2021, Arnaldo Antunes launches the book of poems "Algo Antigo", which brings together poems that were written before and during the COVID 19 pandemic. The current research work aims to investigate this period related to the artistic career of Arnaldo Antunes with the purpose of reflecting on a metalanguage that expands throughout this process. Thinking about expanded metalanguage is to reflect on its modern and contemporary character that prevails simultaneously. From this point of view, it is necessary to think of metalanguage as a process of reflection on the paradoxical developments that are linked to its process expansion process. In this case, the conceptual delimitations between modern and contemporary, subjectivity(ies) and collectivity(ies), science(s) and arts, theory(ies) and practice(s), specificity(ies) and non-specificity(ies), among other dynamics of opposition are at stake, which thus act for a proposition about metalanguage, in an expanded field