TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (User 1)


- Living with it interfered with the space.

- The sensation is smooth and pleasant.

- Pleasing and beautiful

- Exists an absence more than presence:

A non-space because of what surrounds it. Provokes visual interference, surrounds the space, (transitory in its essence). By accepting it is a rejection per se (something to be dealt with)

- The packaged of it, was relevant due to the limited period of time in the house (was near the Box as if the Box was going to leave in the following day).

- Temporality and supportive/engaging. (Find a balance in between)

- Integration of the box and them with the space is an unconscious process.

- Wanting to spend every time with the Box, supporting physically.

- Time has effect. Affects the box (A fast engagement)

- Establish a connection with it by sitting side by side.

- Is not a work of art but part of it! (They complete the work in some way)

- Allowing people to engage with it makes them think how to receive it and think about the level of expectation in art; (allow the function of the artwork to engage).

TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (User 2)


-The object was used as a table during its stay in the house.

- The textile function of the object was also very appealing.

- The object had for them the remembrance of an old suitcase but still a reference to a functional object. Made them think of something inspiring and at the same time romantic.

- One of them used as his own desk for a couple of hours. (They tried to emphasize the functionality and its use).

- Their intervention worked in some way as a written statement a document made for themselves and by themselves.

- The impact of the box in the room was notorious because it didn’t change the spatial organization but it transformed the way they perceived it. In same vague sense was a reunion, inspiring and even healthy.

- Due to all these qualities the box was reserved to create a special occasion and to enjoy the short period of time they had with the box.

- It also worked as a diary of their lives that in some way works as a testimony of what will certainty leave some affection behind.

- However the changes happened to in their lives even if it was for a night. The functionality of the box, worked also as a break in their routine provoking a relationship directly with something more than just a box.

- The experience itself turned out to be different and promoter of new things and happenings in their lives.

TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (user 3)


- The box was very appealing when it was unwrapped, but there was also a questioning between being a box or a cube in conceptual terms.

- There was an interest in naming it because it was there were several possibilities to go with the box.

- They faced the object as an object so they felted restrained in doing something to the box.

- They used it as a support base, to make it functional.

- in some way the box made part of the family for while, and was created a relation even thought the object itself remained strange to them. The presence of it was a bit frightening because of its size.

- There was a slight contradiction in their behaviour with the object because in one hand it was almost like a sense of loss but in the other hand there was a kind of affection. It is also interesting how the object even thought it didn’t suffered any intervention it became an active object that completed some kind of gap.

- There was also the interest of going for a walk with the box and trying to interact with it in specific places. However the idea didn’t happen!

- At the same time there was a need to not engage with it, because it is something that an ordinary object would not require from you!

- The box had a lot of dust in it.

- The box has also the power to precede you into the room as something that was dislocated.

- Nevertheless there was a creation of a relation due to the box being attractive to them. The physicality of it and its basic and tactile attributes it was not divorced from them because they felt it belonged to the everyday world. Another point that was considered was that it was something natural and very practical to accept.

- There was an objectification of the box diminishing it. The object itself becomes an accumulation of space that seems to belong to place but still does not belong. Remains alienated. There seems to exist a boundary that keeps us to still keep close but at the same time distant from it.

- In some way part of our lives were brought as close as possible because of a need of interacting

- it is also relevant to say with no apparent intention there was created an aura in the object because they felt they could project anything to the box as long as the box remained with no intervention. Afterwards it becomes difficult and there is also other aspect that once the box itself becomes intervened until the point whether it loses its integrity!

TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (user 4)


- They felt that the smell, touch and smoothness were very important factors to their engagement with the box because conditioned their interaction in order to reflect their interactions within the three characteristics.

- However they were concerned in leaving one side of the box clear because they felt people should have the same experience they had by touching and smelling it.

- The interventions in the box were a consequence of a gathering of people mainly friends around the box. As consequence of this they were tempted to think outside the box and analyze their experiences.

- There was a suggestion of making a suitcase, putting wheels, making a plinth, a skate board, walk it around the city, but they hadn’t the time to do that.

- The box had appositive effect on people making them work collaboratively and for a common interest.

- Some ideas were generated by the presence of the box in the place. In addition the box was placed in several places according to the needs and interest of the people that wanted to make use of it.

- The box itself incarnated the personality of a tourist that walks around without staying much time in one place but always trying to retain most of his experiences.

- The presence of the box was very prom eminent not only in the actual place but also in their memories as something that found a small corner in their conscious.

- Even though it was a short period of time with the box it was a good opportunity for them to be creative. One of the interventions was with candle works, a DJ stand, drawings and chiselling. All these interventions reflected individual instincts that pervaded instead of consideration. According to them this characteristic caused the awareness that the box was already part of them in some way but nevertheless it remained in some way a bizarre object but very appealing and receptive to everyone!

TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (user 5)


- First reaction was that it had a funny smell.

- The Box represented a distraction and an object that was very intriguing because its presence was very unusual.

- They used as a functional with several functions such as a seat and lather. They also wrote in the object with commentaries very intriguing about the purpose of the project.

- One of them asked what the point of the project was because there was a dialog very effusive about their beliefs.

- There was some investigation about how the box was made and why which resulted in several questions and debates.

- The debate was mainly about modern art and that led to several conversations about modern art.

- The box didn’t facilitate much communication between co-workers because they were already very close with each other. The box gave a new ambiance to the space because it enables them to be confronted by almost an alien that entered their lives for a period of time.

- In addition the fact that the environment of a working space was very restrictive they tried to make use of it in different ways.

TBT 2009 - Comments about the Object: (user 6)


- The surface is very appealing and beautiful, even inspiring, which let the ‘temporary owner’ quite perplex about the power of such feelings.

- The presence of the box was in some way quite unsettling. For instance the fact that the box didn’t open and still remains as a box.

- There was a feeling that the box even though was not destroyed it was in other hand vandalized by the multiple interventions.

- The intervention on the box was paintings that were similar to stamps. The paintings were small animals one of them was from Latin America, and in together with the paintings there was phrases written in Spanish and in English making reference to the paintings.

- The box presence was very stimulating because it had connotations with bad things such as ‘I am going to be boxed in’ or ‘they are going to take me away in a box’ associated with the image of death and coffins. In addition the temporary owner made reference to a poem that refers to being boxed in the Second World War[i]. On the other hand it was associated with good things such as presents or the Boxing Day when Christmas presents are opened.

- The box allowed a feeling of freedom that was only overcome after a few days since it was a kind of alien in their place. It was a slightly worrying for them to accept it because there was a sense of obligation to work with it. However after overcome the freedom allowed the temporary owner to even be ironic in its interventions.

- The result was in some way the imprint of a statement in the box of their egos while living with it. Nevertheless this attitude reveals a sense of identity by living their fingerprints quite literally or just metaphorically.

- The impact in the space was not much relevant because the house as they described was almost a building site, so it didn’t disturb any kind of harmony!

- In the end there was a slight affection by the box due to its presence even though if it was for a very short period of time.


[i] VII

Jumbled in one common box

Of their dark stupidity,

Orchid, swan, and Caesar lie;

Time that tires of everyone

Has corroded all the locks

Thrown away the key for fun.

In its cleft the torrent mocks

Prophets who in days gone by

Made a profit on each cry,

Persona grata now with none;

And a jackass language shocks

Poets who can only pun.

Silence Settles on the clocks;

Nursing mothers point a sly

Index finger at a sky,

Crimson in the setting sun;

In the valley of the fox

Gleams the barrel of a gun.

Once we could have made the docks,

Now it is too late to fly;

Once too often you and I

Did what we should not have done;

Round the rampant rugged rocks

Rude and ragged rascals run.

Song by W. H. Auden, 1941

Monday, 13 April 2009

(Assembly) - The creator (part 2/3)



In continuation of last week essay I would like to take here other angle of approach I did last week in relation to the creator, creative act.
The other point that I think is worth taking in consideration is the fact that the artist is in some way the extension of the world that surrounds him/her. The creator lives in a world that is completely immersive and because of that, no one can deny the information which is bombarding us daily. All of this becomes determinant when the creator is a sponge that is continuously absorbing everything else apart from them. However in some cases not even themselves are left apart from a spiral of almost delirious reflection. The perfect picture that I have to explain this is the washing machine that takes a certain amount of clothes in its recipient until certain limit. During the washing process, one cannot identify clearly shapes or colours so it becomes a shapeless mass of clothes/thoughts. However in the end everything gains its original form and the difference it is in the cleanness which is predominant in the clothes and the same thing happens in the creative process where everything suddenly gained a new look. This can be understood as a way of rediscovering but mainly giving a fresh vision of what surrounds us, without any king of prejudice or censorship. Nevertheless the artist as far as I am concerned is reusing methods over and over again and that doesn’t bring necessarily fresh understandings of anything basically! Has the creator become a lazy mathematician that is trying to apply the same formula to everything he/she does!?
Mathematical formulas are present in our everyday life. The creator just has to introduce new variables without changing the equation system and in the end he gets the same result but with different consequences. It turns out to be a question of reading the results that disturb the system itself. The result achieved is constituted by all of us that accept one work/interpretation in two different contexts.

Why – maybe the artist is tired and tries to find solutions close to him to then change the variables.

There is a lack of thought within the audience, and as consequence it is no longer required to live under a roof provided by the artist (In addition is made of glass) because he can no longer assure an enchantment in any measure. ...

Has the creative process become underrated! I don’t think so, but definitely there is in some way a sentiment towards it that in some way forces the creator to neglect new approaches to the equations already provided.
I believe we are in an era of transition and that implies several things are blurred and inconclusive.
Publicized by Pedro Lopes em 4/13/2009 12:03:00 pm
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4 comments:

  1. henning m. lederer14 April 2009 at 08:45

    1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
    2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
    3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

    [Max Cohen, Pi (a film by Darren Aronofsky)]

    So, an artist is just a kind of analytical pattern-chemist? An explorer who is combining and mixing the exisiting ingredients, elements and current modules with the aim of creating something new or, well, creative in mind?

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  2. Pedro Lopes14 April 2009 at 14:47

    In relation to your questions, I would like to clarify you that the question that you have put is already in my opinion the answer to your own doubts!

    The three points written by [Max Cohen, Pi (a film by Darren Aronofsky)] are as far as I am concerned a very pragmatic view but nevertheless is effective for the several uses someone wants to give to it. The artist/creator or any other individual uses that kind of method to process the information even though he/she may not be aware of that fact!

    When you have someone analysing and observing society in general and understanding their behaviours everyone can easily reach an opinion about their own findings about society and use them to everything it might be suitable for them!

    In the case of the artist or any kind of creator there is always the need to search through the past and find different or new solutions to the existing ones.

    It is a good example the one you gave for the artist as a ‘analytical pattern-chemist’, because when an artist asked about that position will most definitely deny it, however we can’t misunderstood the fact that the artist is not producing a chart of any kind to analyse what to do next! This is the kind of process that is used by market analysts who decide what kind of product people would like to see in the shelf’s of their favourite store.

    The creative process is as far as I am concerned a sparkle that only represents the beginning of something and not the end. Involves a much more dynamic mind process, which is not always conscious.

    The equation that I mention is going to be presented in the next text, however is not a mathematical equation, but illustrates what I want to say as a way of explaining that the creator becomes a ‘washing machine’ that gives clothes/objects/facts with a new face!

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  3. Umbelina Barros15 April 2009 at 14:48

    nao me lembraria nunca de relacionar o acto criativo a lavagem de roupa (talvez porque coloco todos os dias a maquina a lavar) mas questiono-te sobre isso mesmo, entra suja e sai limpa durante o processo nada se distingue e depois retoma a forma inicial, queres dizer com isto que ideias pre concebidas so sao limadas e nunca mudificadas ou de vez em quando existe um programa de lavagem quecorre de forma diferente e sai algo novo?

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  4. Pedro Lopes16 April 2009 at 14:37

    A tua linha de pensamento está correcta no entanto o que tu referes como: ‘entra suja e sai limpa durante o processo nada se distingue e depois retoma a forma inicial’, não é completamente linear. Tomando outra vez a metáfora da máquina de lavar, é certo que a roupa retoma a forma inicial mas apenas como uma leve reminiscência do que existia anteriormente na forma original porque na realidade há uma ligeira diferença. No que respeita ao seu estado final já não é igual ao seu estado inicial embora seja muito parecido.

    O que quero dizer é que as ideias como tu
    referes são retrabalhadas a partir de referências já existentes, no entanto o conteúdo permanece com muitas poucas alterações e sua apresentação é completamente diferente. Se tu pensares no redesign que a indústria automóvel exerce sobre os seus modelos perceberás aonde quero chegar.

    Para Finalizar nem sempre assim acontece como tu referes quando algo sai que é novo. O novo realmente percebe-se que é algo de diferente, no entanto vive-se numa era que por mais que queiramos contradizer existe uma fronte de ‘forte neblina’ que se abate sobre nós!
    Razões são poucas e clarificações parecem ser ainda mais escassas!

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