Conjunto da Obra

bord (bord)

Deconstrução

Nós (Us or Knots)

O Gato Acorrentado a Um Só Traçado (The Cat Chained to a Single Stroke)

O Vento Uiva, ouça (The Wind Howls, listen)

Objeto ME

Estudo para ME VT

Estudo para ME VT, 1977

Hidrográfica sobre papel, 21.50 X 15.20

Works, Series and Collections: Objeto ME

Informações Informações

Obra esparsa (scattered works)

Operador (Operator)

Opereta

Pequeno Mobiliário Brasileiro

POESIA eVENTO

Ou, 1975

Super 8

Works, Series and Collections: bord (bord)

Expositions: Noite POESIA EVENTO, Situações: arte brasileira - anos 70 (situations: Brazilan Art 70's), Xª Bienal de Paris

 

 

OU

OR, Super 8

 

My briefing

OU (or), 2 sequences of 7 seconds each, was originally planned for 7 sequences of the same duration and the same rhythm. Only two of them were finished, bord and bird and a third one, bed (or bad) had the scenes acomplised but not mounted. bord is linked to Mallarmé's reading of Un coup de dés.

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                          d'un bàtiment
                                                                          
                                                                          
                               penché de l'un ou l'autre

bord    

(betraying Mallarmé's drawing, here I have highlighted the word bord to illustrate the construction I used in other drawings)

 

bird connects to the play MacBird, 1966, by Barbara Garson, a left wing American activist. 

Kennedy's successor, after his assassination, Lyndon Johnson was married to the socialite Claudia Alta Johnson, nicknamed Lady Bird.

In an anti-war speech in Berkeley, California, Barbara Garson mentioned the first lady naming her Lady MacBird in allusion to Shakespeare's MacBeth couple. From it she wrote the play Mac Bird parodying The Bard (I like the sound bard/bord)

 

The unfinished bed came to me in a staging of MacBeth, scene I of Act V. By influence of his wife, MacBeth kills Duncan to succeed him. Lady MacBeth alone on the dim stage, without scenery or sound, frantically rubbing her hands as if to wash them and whisper: "There's knocking at the gate. “There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.—To bed, to bed, to bed”

I started bed and left it unfinished due to other projects that took up time and equipment.
Gabriel Borba, 2019