LABOURS DANCE

BOUNDLESS BOUNDARIES

installation by FUSA MIRACLE and JOÃO Ó

Description

The title of the work hails from a linguistic contradiction which stands at the root of the leit motif for this installation.

This contradiction questions the issue of the territory as a field of internal and external tension, which is to say, its interactive urban relationship both with itself and its surroundings.

The territorial field that we analysed within the scope of an artistic research branched out into three urban cases explicitly evident in the city of Macau. The criteria of choice were based on the impact upon the collective imaginary that these bring about:

 -        the orderly grid of the new external harbour reclamation area, which albeit recent has a deep impact on the life of the city  ;

-        the Macau RESERVOIR, which reflects an approach to the tension between the city and the water, its permanent perimeter;

 -        the Nobre de Carvalho BRIDGE, which stands as the first physically built example embodying the need of transgression of the territory that justifies the tension between the islands.

In a literal departure from the plans of these three case studies, and using work tools such as Autocad and Viz in exploring tri-dimensionality, transparency, and layering together with concepts geared towards urban design such as planning,  geometrical drawing and territory planning, we decided to explore the idea of the city in a more poetical and abstract approach bearing in mind the existing reality, i.e., a duality between dream and reality, travel and wait, day and night, line and space, in their complementary natures.

Time and space were unavoidable issues that we sought to integrate in this installation, insofar as the evolution of the city of Macau lays its urban impact on the flow of days, and therefore, it may be said that the history of this city is moulded by the paradoxical force of present time – the here and now.

The installation is composed by three suitcases of light that allow for a manifestation of the ebullient, immeasurable imaginary of the territory, intangibly projecting the contemporary need of approaching the urban theme of the city and questioning the sense of coherence or incoherence that it is assuming.

"pornurbanus"

RIZOME

video installation by FUSA MIRACLE & JOÃO Ó

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY

AUTOCAD - computer assisted drawing and other instruments used in the construction of architectonic spaces are an acquired fact in a urbanity where the

virtual lines (translated in a algorithmic calculus of complex geometries involved in a operative system orientated by three perpendicular axles denominated X,Y, Z) started to manipulate the true junction of the collective imaginary.

Digital technology in the computer era brought a fundamental change in the way we perceive the world as we started to see it in computer terms.

Based on this paradigm, our project is searching for a new point of viewing the way the digitalization of our mentalities explores more comprehensive concepts that find correspondence in totalitarianizing theories - rhizome - over a world that will always be subjected to more than just one definition.

In this sense, digital technology becomes a catalyst that tends to revolutionize the existing urban reality demonstrating investigation probabilities that enable to appropriate parallel realities in a fusion of multidisciplinary thoughts.

Thus, we understand the city in the deleuzian way in terms of “field“, a network of processes, “a complex machine, consisting of multidirectional processes of

connection, and separation, of layering, enmeshing and cutting, which leads to ever different formations“, in which the form of the projected becomes indistinct from the thought that produces it.

Our role as mediators was to incorporate both realities  real and virtual  to take advantage of a dualistic approximation that exposes the specific and unspecific matters conjugal problem.

Intersection planes, non-coplanar surfaces, lapidated spaces, alternative paths tangential extensions, reflexes that populate the forms with luminal-spatial nuances, interstitial connections that embark in perpetual movements, etc, are part of the unstopping search for a linguistic continuity that results in a epiphany of digital phenomena. This virtualization of reality opens a new conceptual path in the rhizomatic process metamorphosis form.

The multiple surficial realities confluence created from progressive conversions, going from the digital image to the analogical and then returning to the digital, resulted in a visual plasticity that intends to speculate about the rhizomes conceptual generatrices tangibility trough which the new cities manifest themselves.

The rhizome is an accumulation or dispersion of ligaments, without centre or hierarchical organization, it is a contingence of lines that, in several ways, reflects a “natural“ pattern of geo-organic development. It is the genesis that maintains all the paths open to evolve towards an adaptive epistemology.

FUSA REFLEX