Naves em rotas pelo procedimento cerâmico: uma jornada poética por micro e macro espaços

Abstract

The practical-theoretical research was developed aboard imaginary ceramic spaceships, considering sea and celestial landscapes observed around and from the Recôncavo Baiano, mirrored in raw earth materials through the ceramic procedure which generated shapes, textures, colors and shines that were ordered in a way to make sense for a tactile-visual and eventually sound poetics that establishes cultural connections. This poetic plastic work was the core of the object of study and was part of the solo exhibition Homo Interactivus held at Galeria Cañizares. Led by the master spacecraft www.homointeractivus.via, the space vehicles Terra Mater, Ultra Solis, Zeugma, Fótons and Três Marias traveled geographical and procedural routes for technical, conceptual, historical, as well as subjective, intersubjective and spiritual issues through ephemeral production with clay and sculptural ceramics. In addition to individual studio production, artistic-reflexive and collaborative actions were carried out with groups of people involved in these practices, enhancing listening, sharing and exchanges between rural and urban knowledge and practices, from centuries-old communities and artists with academic training. The main objective was to seek to expand and understand the notion of wholeness in the poetic experience, bringing together sensations and perceptions of the body-mind-matter in action, in dialogue with the transdisciplinarity of intentions and motivations. The investigations followed qualitative methodological approaches associated with autoethnography according to Sylvie Fortin, who understands that the researcher connects personal experiences to cultural meanings and understandings, finding “their uniqueness and a more complete meaning, without seeking an illusory universality”. The research described a rotational movement, like a twirl, bringing together through the intertwined intellect sensitivity: experience, dream, song, silence, interior and exterior of the forms connected to the introversion and extroversion of daydreams, in accordance with the poetic truth, reaching in continuity, an articulated understanding of art-life-art that removes dichotomous thoughts. To corroborate with interdisciplinary theoretical reflections, texts by philosophers and writers were used as, for instance, Gaston Bachelard, Vilém Flusser, Keneth Beittel, Jorge Larrosa Bondía, Rainer Maria Rilke, and works and reflections by artists such as Fayga Ostrower, Sandra Rey, Evarist Navarro, and Pere Noguera, among others.