Abstract
In April 1995, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin organized the symposium The Marco Polo Syndrome. Problems of Intercultural Communication in Art Theory and Curatorial Practice, in which the Cuban critic Gerardo Mosquera gave the lecture ‘The Marco Polo Syndrome.’ In which he saw the Venetian traveller to the Orient as a pioneer in the experience of understanding the ‘Other.’ This would link to the theories of Boaventura de Sousa Santos when, in his discussion about inter- or transculturality, put forward the concept of ‘abyssal thinking’ in a regime of ‘ecology of knowledge,’ where the search for intersubjectivity is so important as it is complex. These developments have had both epistemological and phenomenological consequences: while the images are involved in the formation of worlds, they have been converted into forms of thinking which constitute a new type of knowledge based on visual communication, and so they are dependent on perception, demanding the development of an optical mind.
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