Quarto ^(SWE/BRA) CUBE AS A HOPE "for what is always already there" 9-11 December 2021

Programme

We started with a kilometre-long rope tied between our bodies. After many years of dealing with the rope's unpredictable knots, we came up with a solution to the entangling knot creation. In order to create an expanded rather than collapsed space, we designed a physical frame for the rope, an empty volume, a 3x3x3 metre three-dimensional cube of aluminium tubes. When viewed solely by itself, the support structure exists as a representation of the permeable boundaries between the interior and exterior, the private and the public within and around which we can dwell. The full meaning of the cube goes beyond what we have explored so far about the rope. It will be developed along two lines of enquiry that tackle the paradoxical nature of being tangibly material through its skeletal construction and at the same time an immaterial emptiness, an emptiness that anticipates the porous spaces of the external and internal reality. The cube will also concretise into a sound object where the movements of the bodies create sound and imagery - QUARTO on his work.

Quarto

QUARTO is an artist duo founded in 2003 by Anna Mesquita and Leandro Zappala, living and working between two very different cultures - Brazil and Sweden. QUARTO is engaged in a long-term research with artists and researchers in interdisciplinary art, involving both theory and practice. Engaged in philosophical questions about power relations and the limits of the body, they seek to create thoughts and subjectivity through a radical, visual and physical experience.

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