THELEME – Interarts and Intermedia Studies
Coordinator: Amândio Reis
Framed within the overarching research line of the Centre for Comparative Studies — “Comparatism, Reflective Cosmopolitanism and Critical Global Studies” — the THELEME Research Group deals with interrelations between film, music, the visual arts and literature; with literary translation but also other media translation; with reuses of classical texts and imagery in contemporary art and media, and with specific thematic approaches to the arts and intermedial explorations.
Borrowing from Irina Rajewsky, we encourage “Border Talks”, studying aesthetic objects in which conventional borders have been trespassed, but also interrelations, contaminations, and references between objects that maintain these borders.
Our approach favours the field of Intermediality (first proposed by Hansen-Löve, 1983), which evolves from Interarts Studies and opens investigation to a broader set of practices, overcoming the divide between so called high and low culture.
The group’s profile arises from the research done within two connected clusters: SYNESTHESIA and RIAL.
We priviledge collaborative work and joint initiatives, particularly the THELEME Seminars.
Here you can access the recent history of THELEME—Interarts & Intermedia Seminars.
THELEME has also hosted two FCT-funded Research Projects:
