Awareness of the direction of the gaze is a uniquely human phenomenon.
Today's film criticism is overwhelmed by the theory of the gaze.
The result is a fascinating study of the gaze, albeit from a reverse angle.
By doing this, we would change the entire concept of the "gaze" of the museum visitor.
One piece, accompanied by her song "Humms," posits Gumby-like male nudes as dubious objects of the gaze.
The comparison of the gaze to a candelabrum, or chandelier, whose flame has been lowered, is detailed in the original.
And so we see "Marat/Sade" with new eyes: as a feminist work, wherein men and not women are the hysterics — and the subject of the gaze.
The pieces, "Striptease" and "Bomberos con Grandes Mangueras," ("Firefighters with Long Hoses") apparently deal with the nature of the gaze and the role of the performer.
In the quartet's closer, "O Conquistador Conquistado" ("The Conqueror Conquered"), Mr. Oliveira closely directs another variation on colonialism and the power dynamics and aesthetics of the gaze.
The carefully choreographed pose, the angelic face, the calculation of the gaze, suggest much about the teenager who would become the protean figure known as David Bowie.
His enterprise, he insists, "would be entirely superfluous if there existed photographic traces of the gaze of the colonized upon the colonizer".
