Feat Fernanda Paixão and Paloma Klisys

 

The artists Fernanda Paixão and Paloma Klisys, developed this proposal of interaction from the relationship with artists and researchers working in the NEAR ecosystem.

Written language, performance in public spaces and sound art compose the universe of tools directed to the development of this artistic research and are the basis of a territory of exploration of new possibilities of creation in a transdisciplinary, translingual, and transmedia format.

 

Presentation

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To affirm an approach simultaneously ludic and conceptual, the artists choose the title Propulsion Writing to nominate this proposal.

 

“Propulsion is the process and result of propelling. This verb refers to the impulse that is given to something to move forward or move, whether in a physical or symbolic sense. Propulsion is a displacement that is produced by the action of a force.”

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Articulating the concept of propulsion with the frequent use of the term “proposal” in the NEAR ecosystem, the duo evidence and establish the desire to treat the realization of a “proposal” as a process of creation capable of propelling new movements between what happens in a virtual environment and the endless possibilities of resonance of these interactions, reflections, and events on the streets.

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Complementing the concept of propulsion, Fernanda and Paloma explore in the realization of this work, poetic connections between the element earth and the concept of thread… The name ‘Earth’ comes from Tellus goddess of fertile soil in the Roman pantheon. The word canvas comes from the Latin tela,ae (canvas) “thread, fabric, web,” another derivation is to weave, to make cloth, to interweave.

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The idea is precisely to operate in the sphere of interaction, of the interweaving between what may come up as propositions in the NEAR ecosystem and to take these propositions/provocations to the public space where the social tissue is woven and moved in a more explicit way in the diversity of ways of being, thinking, existing and feeling.

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This proposal has as its main objective to connect in a performative way propositions that at first arise from members of several DAOs active in the ecosystem with the urban public space of a large metropolis, in this case, the city of São Paulo.

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The virtual space as a propellant of realities in the physical space and the physical space as a provider of virtual space through responses to the provocations arising from the ecosystem.

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Performative action/artistic urban interventions 

 

The first step was the realization of a bounty (a call with a reward for those selected) with the objective of defining three questions/provocations that served as a motto for the realization of three urbanas drifts/ artistic interventions in public spaces.

 

From the set of selected questions/provocations, the duo performed three drifts/artistic urban interventions in different public spaces with large circulation of people.

 

During the drifts, the duo wrote the questions/provocations on the asphalt of the locations where the drifts took place in performative actions open to the interference of random audiences, using paint made organically from land and clay. 

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After the urban drifts were made and the content was systematized and edited, videos and audios were created and will be published in NFT format in the year 2023.

 

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