{"id":948,"date":"2014-01-27T17:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/1\/?page_id=948"},"modified":"2014-02-06T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:59:52","slug":"bichos-feitos-de-nos-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutomesa.org\/revistamesa\/edicoes\/1\/bichos-feitos-de-nos-english\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Creatures Made by Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creatures Made by Us1<\/sup>: Encounters with Ernesto Neto\u2019s TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAnita Sobar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nBernardo Zabalaga<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nVirg\u00ednia Kastrup<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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The texts gathered here are written from inside an experience; not critically distant but rather deeply embodied reflections describing encounters with different publics exploring the artwork by artist Ernesto Neto, oBichoSusPensoNaPaisaGen<\/em> [TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape<\/em>]. As the title suggests, the sculpture–made of crocheted nets, colored threads and hundreds of small plastic balls–was suspended. From the September 11th to October 14th, 2012, the \u201ccreature\u201d hung from the ceiling of the old Leopoldina railway station in Rio de Janeiro, inviting visitors to walk inside its giant web. The public encounters with Neto\u2019s work were part of a project called “Laborat\u00f3rio de Tear Po\u00e9tico” [Poetic Weaving Lab]. Together with artist educators Anita Sobar, Bernardo Zabalaga and Bianca Bernardo as well as researcher Virginia Kastrup, Neto’s sculpture was explored as a loom — loom as structure and as verb (weaving conversations, multi-sensory perceptions etc.). The aim was to give greater attention and care to the actual experience of the artwork as a suspended relational territory of the senses and as a generator of meanings, perceptions and memories.<\/p>\n

The idea for this laboratory, here nicknamed “creatures made by us,” began with an enthusiastic conversation between Ernesto Neto and manager of his studio Carmen Riquelme, provoking the artist to think about the invisible potential of the public life of his work as another time continuum, comprising multiple creative ebbs and flows, interactions and emotions. These creative and conversational \u201cflows\u201d in the work of Neto happened in the context of special encounters with three different groups from Rio de Janeiro-based organizations: young people from the art and technology school and NGO, Spectaculu, blind people from the Benjamin Constant Institute, and mental health patients from Philipe Pinel Institute. Together, they became a sculpture of voices and emotions — literally a \u201ccreature made by us\u201d– created by the loom as a metaphoric structure that enabled an experience suspended from daily life via a shared process of weaving \u201cknots\u201d of experiences, words and feelings.<\/p>\n

What was “evident” in the monumental form of the work, led to the idea of a “loom” of conversation and listening, incarnated as richly experienced moments within the active living organism of the creature <\/em>— experiences made by the \u201cknots\u201d of the artwork and by the loom of sharing multiple voices.2<\/sup> Since the beginning of conversations between “us,” (artist, organizers, artist educators, and participants) we emphasized the conceptual importance of recording these “encounters” and “responses,” seeking to make visible and evident what was experienced by these diverse publics as a vital and critical dimension of the life of the artwork. The reflections of the researchers and artists that follow profoundly witness this critical engagement with the public meaning of art.<\/p>\n

– The editors<\/p>\n

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\n1<\/sup>Translator\u2019s note: In Portuguese \u201cn\u00f3s\u201d means \u201cus\u201d but also \u201cknots\u201d–in this sense the \u201cus\u201d suggests both those proposing and those brought together through the encounter as a kind of encounter-human being-knot that also reflects the \u201cknots\u201d (n\u00f3s) of the crocheted nets of Ernesto Neto\u2019s installation oBichoSusPensoNaPaisaGen<\/em> [TheAnimalSusPensiveOntheLandGenscape<\/em>]. The use of \u201ccreatures\u201d both refers to the title of Neto\u2019s work and the living and organic nature of the experiences with the work \u2013 bicho is translated in the title as animal but can also mean creature, critter or bug.
\n2<\/sup>Translator\u2019s note: The Portuguese text here plays with the terms \u201ce-vidente\u201d and \u201ce-vivente,\u201d meaning evident and experienced. \u201cVivente\u201d is understood as both seen and lived in a full way. \u201cVivencia,\u201d while translated here as \u201cexperience\u201d from the Portuguese, actually conveys a more vital sense of a fully lived moment than the English word \u201cexperience\u201d suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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