Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’almeida’s Block Experiments in Cosmococa – book launch and talk with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

We are pleased to announce the London launch of Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida, Block-Experiments in Cosmococa on Wednesday 20th November at Chelsea College of Art & Design with a discussion with co-author Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz.

In this recent book in our One Work series Sabeth Buchman and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz consider the effect the New York underground scene and Brazilian avant-garde cinema had on Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida’s Cosmococas. They draw together the influence of concrete poetry and the writings of Marshall McLuhan, Henri Bergson and others to present a rich analysis of the work and its experimentation with duration, its blurring of formats and languages, and its modes of spectatorship.

Talk & Book Launch: Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’almeida’s Block Experiments in Cosmococa
Discussion with Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Wednesday 20th November 2013, 18:00-20:00
Admission free

Lecture Theatre then Green Room
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Atterbury Street, London SW1P 4JU

Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa by Sabeth Buchmann and Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz is part of the One Work series of books, each of which presents a single work of art considered in detail through a single text. To order the book, visit The MIT Press website or your nearest independent bookshop. This event is organised in association with TrAIN.