The chamber of inventions
Susana Gaudêncio
9 – 26 February 2011
Susana Gaudêncio
9 – 26 February 2011
The chamber of inventions
“Drawing aims.
During this project, more than being worried about a formal or conceptual practice of drawing I want to primarily address its narrative nature and fictional will.
Thematically, it will be developed over a mapping of utopian ideas.
An Imagined space, in order to be an utopian one, needs to be a manifestation of a desire, but the inevitable consequence of projects with an utopian nature, is that they led to the destruction of a world to give rise to another. Its creative enthusiasm comes from the recognition that both our imagination and our perception are a human construction that always can be altered.
Starting from this premise and inspired by a palimpsest method I intend to create an analogy between a process for creating new utopias, with a drawing method by accumulation, overlapping and changing information.
"(...) Animation is not about "moving drawings", but about "drawing movement ", i.e. draw your own time, because to acquire motion to define a time will always be necessary." Norman Maclaren
In Stage 2 of the residence I will take in to consideration the formal and narrative nature of these drawings and will proceed to the construction of various devices inspired by the genesis of Film and Animation, in particular: the Diorama, the Panorama, the Prascinoscópio the Fenacistoscópio, the Zoetrope, etc.
I intend to make drawings move through their interaction with such mechanisms that derive from the Proto-Cinema, questioning the initial quote of Norman McLaren.”
Susana Gaudêncio
CV
“Drawing aims.
During this project, more than being worried about a formal or conceptual practice of drawing I want to primarily address its narrative nature and fictional will.
Thematically, it will be developed over a mapping of utopian ideas.
An Imagined space, in order to be an utopian one, needs to be a manifestation of a desire, but the inevitable consequence of projects with an utopian nature, is that they led to the destruction of a world to give rise to another. Its creative enthusiasm comes from the recognition that both our imagination and our perception are a human construction that always can be altered.
Starting from this premise and inspired by a palimpsest method I intend to create an analogy between a process for creating new utopias, with a drawing method by accumulation, overlapping and changing information.
"(...) Animation is not about "moving drawings", but about "drawing movement ", i.e. draw your own time, because to acquire motion to define a time will always be necessary." Norman Maclaren
In Stage 2 of the residence I will take in to consideration the formal and narrative nature of these drawings and will proceed to the construction of various devices inspired by the genesis of Film and Animation, in particular: the Diorama, the Panorama, the Prascinoscópio the Fenacistoscópio, the Zoetrope, etc.
I intend to make drawings move through their interaction with such mechanisms that derive from the Proto-Cinema, questioning the initial quote of Norman McLaren.”
Susana Gaudêncio
CV
