{hi jax, sorry that i'll start the same way i did my own blog yesterday, going off about cao guimarães' work at an exhibition here but it's still so present in my thoughts}
going through the panorama dos panoramas exhibition at mam (museu de arte moderna - são paulo), i came across one of the most beautiful words. the artist is cao guimarães and the video is called "histórias do não ver" (translated by the artist to "stories of not-seeing"). cao asks his friends to please kidnap him. people would pick him up at home and take him somewhere. he would photograph everything, without seeing due to a blindfold, and then write about it and develop the pictures. the text and pictures became a book (by the same title) and then, a video. at some point, he talks about memories and mirrors and other things... its very sensitive to other senses other than vision. its a beautiful video. i love this:
a memória é um lugar onde as coisas acontecem por uma segunda vez.
(translates to: memory is a place where things happen for a second time.)
i feel like just this one line can take me places. i definitely want to keep it in mind and think more of it. see where it leads to. very breathtaking, to me.
a memória é um lugar onde as coisas acontecem por uma segunda vez.
(translates to: memory is a place where things happen for a second time.)
i feel like just this one line can take me places. i definitely want to keep it in mind and think more of it. see where it leads to. very breathtaking, to me.
i was also thinking of other senses other than sight and last nite, after yoga, my sense of smell was more than accentuated. i walked down the stairs, right after class, and i could smell the flowers so strongly. granted, they were lilies (strong smell always), but still, it was really taking up all the air, if u know what i mean.
for some reason, after these words, i'm now thinking about dreams... hm... why did i remember dreams right now? strange... i feel like something's on the same line there.
memory, where things happen for a second time, dreams, reality x dream, intense memory, memory is "verified" by the senses, ... oops. don't know where i'm going with this. hm... food for thought
posted by juls
1 comment:
wow, that sounds so interesting- the idea of kidnapping and photographing and story telling all in one...I am very much interested in the ability of art to challenge and provoke and change how we see things...I have always been fascinated with how with the loss of one sense the other senses become more acute. I am reminded of the movie Sneakers. There is a scene where Robert Redford is kidnapped and put into the back of a trunk. He describes what he hears to his team and they are able to retrace where he is taken. Robert Redford remembers the sound of the bumps in the road and they are able to determine the exact bridge he was taken over. Redford then describes a cocktail party and the blind hacker figures out that the chatter is actually made by flamingos. I love that movie! That was sort of an aha-moment for realizing the nuances in perception, sense is nonsense, and how the truth can be missed even with eyes wide open.
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