Guanabara, imensidão e abismo: estórias das coletas, cartas e descartes

Abstract

This thesis conducts experiments aimed at bringing to presence the vastness and the abyss of the Guanabara Bay. This study seeks to understand how artistic and design experimental processes can contribute to the description of landscapes in the Anthropocene? First, my observation of the Guanabara Bay leads to the identification of patches of the Anthropocene in a marine landscape pervaded by floating scraps which contribute to destroying its habitability. I collect images and disposed things, describe the process of collecting and experimenting with my findings. I store these fragments in a bag which can contain images, things, stories, experiments, letters, etc. This text thus takes the form of a bag, and the things collected take the form of the Guanabara Bag: an object made of the scraps found in the bay. Finally, I use this bag to store letters: one from Lygia Clark; one as a reply to Lygia; and one as a reply to Guanabara. My answering attempts include both the writing of letters and the construction of another object made of the things found: the Guanabara Mask, a work inspired by Clark's Sensorial Masks series. These experiments aim to contribute to the description of this time and territory through experimental artistic and design processes that explore creative ways of responding to the terrors of the Guanabara in the Anthropocene.