Gratichão: poéticas tectônicas de enviramento

Abstract

Restoring architecture from its disciplined order to the level of experience, this work engages in open-ended field experimentations with and within environments in crisis and deformation. At its core are a series of investigative walks through my land art, which operates on ground level and takes the soil, the earth, the land and the ground (chão) as the vast, formless and noisy cosmos they have always composed. My writing is risk-taking and experimental, and its paths are crossed by encounters with art in all its manifestations: as works of art, as practice, as concept and speculation, as a mode of being (among many). At these crossroads of language, bodies (in movement), and art, new vicinities of sense and the senses emerge, triggering subliminal, tectonic shifts in our narratives of world-making. Reading the destructive echos of progress-driven societies against the (re)generative songs by the people of the land and their allies, my writing moves through the prism of a few architectural archetypes — the Skyscraper, the Museum, the Garden, the Shell —, to gradually deform them and reveal their built-in contradictions. Shocks and surprises! From the past to the future, swashed in a state of climate emergency, there can only be multiple and communal efforts and ways to transform, twist and turn our environment(s) (enviramento). Expanding the field of possibilities, preparing the soil for other confluences, we gain the gift to surprise ourselves with the unexpected ways in which culture hatches from nature’s shell