SEMANA 1 THE IDLE LINE

SATURDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2022, 10 PM

Rua de S. Joaquim nr. 2, Campo de Ourique, LISBOA 

(entrada do lado esquerdo da Igreja de Santa Isabel)

It’s so difficult to talk about something so vast but so simple as the way of Tao. To talk about the immobile centre of all moving things, that irradiant cluster where all things fall and from where all things a-rise.




We are not in the position to say anything about the invisible membrane from which all is made, the infra-thin line that warps on the threshold of opposites. 




How idle, how fleeting is that frontier!

But the turbulence in the pond, the spasms of the fishing line do nothing, yet there’s nothing they don’t do.

ON THIS SESSION

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by Rick Silva

3D animation, colour, silent, 2014

courtesy of the artist

Gnuśna Linia

by Józef Robakowski

VHS transferred to digital, colour, sound, 3’, 1992
courtesy of Modern Art Museum in Warsaw

and again

The Slant Step

found by William Wiley & Bruce Nauman, 1968

replica produced by João Cabral Coutinho

We thank the artists and the lenders, without whom this session wouldn’t have been possible. To Pedro Alfacinha, João Simões, Carlos Gaspar and Borja Caro Montes for the technical support.

With the support of Fundo de Fomento Cultural Garantir Cultura–Compete 2020 / Républica Portuguesa-Ministério da Cultura.

Programme (PDF)