TRANSPORTE #1, 2009
Claudio Bueno
Size: 4,20m x 3,5m x 3,5m
Materials: Two mobile phones, piano, eletronic control panel,
iron tubes, steel cable, spring and other materials.
Presented at the artistic residency Red Bull House of Art [RBHOA] in São Paulo.
In O Transporte #1, Claudio Bueno continues his research on the use of technologies used by mobile phones. From the project Casa Aberta. presented at the beginning of his residency at RBHOA, instead of adopting sophisticated softwares and hardwares, he ironically points to an accessible use of technology (…) If before, by transmitting his atelier inside the exhibiting space and allowing manipulations of his TV, the object of the intersection functioned between the limits of public and private space, in this case, the motivation of the interaction is given by the piano’s transport, hanging in exhibiting space.
It‘s not always that one notices a “cause and consequence” relationship so interesting in works associated with interactivity or new medias. In O Transporte #1. the events triggered by the interaction suggest risks, they entangle the viewers by giving them control and at the same time responsibility – to activate the system. This can be felt through an interaction consciousness that can be noted in a immediately visual form, but that also causes special interest for the physical dislocation of the big volume. It’s about an object symbolizing in an archetypal way the common idea of weight (and the perspective of an accident caused by its aerial transport). But it also suscitates thoughts about harmony (as a decorative object that inhabits sophisticated spaces) or as an instrument that generates a musical production associated with delicacy and refinement.
Transporte #1 encompasses these extremes extremely well, also allowing us to catch a glimpse of the ironical use of wireless communication systems in an uneasy occupation of the physical space, in remote actions, that unite the immateriality flux with things of the world.
Written by the curators Lucas Bambozzi and Maria Montero for the RBHOA exhibition.
