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Gravidade
by Robin Vanbesien
Director: Robin Vanbesien
Cinematography: Graça Castanheira
Sound: Isabel Dias Martins
Actors: Cláudio da Silva, Diogo Bento, Ricardo Vaz Trindade
Sound Design: Bart Aga
Editing: Robin Vanbesien
Producer: Maumaus Artists-in-Residence Programme/Lumiar Cité
Year: 2015
Runtime: 23’
HD Video
Colour
Sound
Funded by: Governo de Portugal/Secretário de Estado da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes/Flanders State of the Art
Because he’s alone, a sailor’s always telling himself who he is, writes Kathy Acker in her short story ‘Lust’ (1988), revisiting Jean Genet’s Querelle de Brest (1947), a novel about a young sailor and a trade-off between a murder and a transgressive sexual act. A sailor is nowhere home, always alone, which gives him the opportunity to act within the illusion of a mirage. Taking his cue from Acker’s and Genet’s “sailor”, Robin Vanbesien unfolds a metonymic figure for a nameless desire circulating through painted partial objects and prolific poetic images invoked by words. Characters, genders and bodies appear at sea before the possibilities of an undecidably erotic (homoerotic or just autoerotic) fantasy. The relations appear dissociated, stemming from the desire of an emptied-out self. All seems to be given with the gravity that yields a passive tense of verbs, static gestures, and staged compositions. Landscape, painted or filmed, functions as the medium to circumscribe the figures. It reflects the notion of a framing gaze returned from its object in a specular dialogue. Although they seem to encompass each other’s plastic-pictorial unity, the author and its hero, the figure and the spectator, are conjoined in worlds separated from each other.
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Current:
Seminar
Amanda Boetzkes
Realism Without Authority
01.04, 04.04.2022
10h–13h, 14h–17h
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 24.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Upcoming:
Seminar
Kerstin Stakemeier
(Un)Romantic Sex
06–08.04.2022
11h–13h, 14h–17h
Goethe-Institut
Registration is free but limited to the number of seats available. Please send an email with a short CV to admin@maumaus.org by 31.03.2022. Confirmation of registration will be sent by email. The seminar will be in English.
Independent Study Programme
Call 2022
Until 20.09.2021
Fogo Island Dialogues
Atlantic Codes
November 8–9, 2019
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, Lumiar Cité
Lumiar Cité
Rua Tomás del Negro, 8A
1750-105 Lisboa, Portugal
Wednesday to Sunday, 15h00 to 19h00
or by appointment.
Tel: + 351 21 755 15 70 | 21 352 11 55
lumiar.cite@maumaus.org
Loretta Fahrenholz
Circle Navel Nil
24.04. – 27.06.2021
24.06 | 18h00 Online conversation with Sabeth
Buchmann, Loretta Fahrenholz and Jürgen Bock
Current:
Ana Jotta
SEMPRE
05.03. – 31.07.2022
14.05 | 17h Guided tour and conversation
with the artist
In cooperation with Lumiar Cité:
Tiffany Chung
Thu Thiêm: an archaeological
project for future remembrance
08.06. - 08.09.2019
Johann Jacobs Museum
Maumaus/Lumiar Cité
is funded by Ministério da Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia do Lumiar