{"id":206,"date":"2007-09-01T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/regrowingeden.ch\/?p=206"},"modified":"2008-07-20T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T09:28:21","slug":"206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regrowingeden.ch\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"“transg\u00eanicos”: pics from our installation & performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Transgenicos<\/a><\/p>\n

(texto portugues em baixo)<\/em>
\nOur installation \u201ctransg\u00eanicos\u201d<\/a> grew in four performative interventions. With our artificial \u201cgenetically modified organism\u201d we tried to reflect our impression of the political and social discourse on GE\/GMO in Brazil. Our Eden no Brasil<\/a> was shown at the Museum Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba, Paran\u00e0, from August 11th for one week. (Fotos: Juliana Burigo \u00a9regrowingeden)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More pictures –<\/a><\/p>\n

We have realised our live-installation from 11.8.2007 to 20.8.2007! We made four Performances (scroll down to see pics and descriptions of each performance):<\/p>\n

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\n(3d-sketch of transg\u00eanicos )<\/em><\/p>\n

1. performance: 3d-sketch of transg\u00eanicos<\/strong>
\nSaturday, 11.8.2007. In our opening-performance we let the GMO-plant grow within a fine structure of strings. This structure is knotted between four construction props and forms a matrix for the plant to grow. The clearness and order of this string-structure takes up in an abstract way the technical aspects of gen-technology, the intention\/wish for clean, well-designed solutions. The construction props may be associated with the construction site of genetic engineering With black-yellow-striped plastic tape we make a three dimensional sketch of an organic structure \u2013 our GMO-plant grows within the designed matrix and technical structure which is more and more distorted. The black-yellow plastic tape, of which we made the plant, is widely used as barrier tape throughout Brazil. We use this artificial material to create transgenic organic growth. Our performance-installation resembles a three dimensional sketch of a growing, genetically modified plant.<\/p>\n

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\n(invasive sculpture)<\/em>
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\n2. Performance: Invasive sculpture <\/a><\/strong>
\n(Sunday, 12.8.07). We continue working on our plant. There is a change in structure, density and intensity – invasive growth is starting. Through this performance, the fine plant-sketch transforms into a powerful sculpture \u2013 transgenicos is becoming almighty. Its growth overcomes the structure. With a deflection technique with strings and stones as counterweight, transg\u00eanicos is \u201cshooting\u201d out of the controlled perimeter. The stones fall onto ceramic tiles. The tiles break into pieces with a bang, similar to the spreading of seeds.<\/p>\n


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\n(the eye of curitiba)<\/em><\/p>\n

3. performance: political discourse \u2013 the eye of curitiba<\/strong>
\n(Tuesday morning, 14.8.07). We integrate our impression of the political discourse on GMO within Brazil in our installation (read about the political situation and the strategic\/symbolic port of Parana<\/a> where the government tries to maintain segregating of GMO from Non-GMO food streams). We pull a green tape through the body of transg\u00eanicos and a eye-shaped hole opens in the middle of the plant \u2013the watching eye of Curitiba. It is a reminder to take care and to develop sustainable perspectives. Sustainability in agriculture, equal distribution of benefits from gen-technology and resistance to corporate power are arguments, that people were telling us often when asked about their opinion on GE in Brazil.
\nThe performance took place after a skill share meeting of the Parana state government. So it was seen by 200 Paran\u00e0-state officials, inclusive the governor of Parana state, Roberto Requi\u00e3o, who invited us for lunch afterwards…<\/p>\n

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\n(gouvernor R. Requi\u00e3o)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n (risk assesment)<\/em><\/p>\n

4. performance: risk assessment<\/strong>
\n(Tuesday evening, 14.8.2007). Our finissage with an invited art-audience and friends. Once again, our gmo-plant is growing. Powerful, invasive, beautiful and dangerous, alluring and unpredictable. With a light installation and the use of red plastic films we reflect the outcomes of the Eliza-Test, with which toxic effects of GMO on non-target organisms can be measured (through light-absorption). Already used in our installation in Switzerland, the red plastic films may reflect the need for international exchange of knowledge and risk assessment methodologies. ETH was running capacitiy building workshops in Brazil \u2013 as their Swiss colleagues, the Brazilian scientists community is quite clear, that GMO-risks should be assessed properly PRIOR to any commercial release of GMO \u2013 political practise is in sharp contrast to the scientific demand.<\/p>\n

portugese version below
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\"1_transgenicos2.jpg\"<\/a> \"2_transgenicos1.jpg\" <\/a> <\/a>\"3_transgenicos1.jpg\"
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\"sketch1.jpg\"<\/a> <\/a><\/a>\"4_transgenicos4.jpg\"<\/a> <\/a>\"sketch_tree.jpg\"<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a>\"7_transgenicos1.jpg\" <\/a>\"5_transgenicos4.jpg\" <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a>\"6_transgenicos2.jpg\" <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

\"8_transgenicos1.jpg\" <\/a>\"9_transgenicos2.jpg\" <\/a>\"stone.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"10_transgenicos1.jpg\" <\/a>\"2_eye-of-curitiba.jpg\" <\/a>\"eye-of-curitiba1.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"3_risk-assesment.jpg\" <\/a>\"2_risk-assesment.jpg\" <\/a>\"1_risk-assesment2.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Artistas su\u00ed\u00e7os realizam performance sobre transg\u00eanicos\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Com uma interven\u00e7\u00e3o viva (performance) no Museu Oscar Niemeyer, os artistas su\u00ed\u00e7os Hina Struver e Matti Wuthrich ir\u00e3o construir uma estrutura tridimensional de planta com o t\u00edtulo \u201ctransg\u00eanicos\u201d<\/strong>. Est\u00e1 planta artificial, que usa materiais como pl\u00e1stico e cordas, ter\u00e1 as caracter\u00edsticas de um organismo geneticamente modificado. A planta GMO ir\u00e1 crescer e se espalhar invasivamente durante os dias seguintes. Na instala\u00e7\u00e3o de arte \u201ctransg\u00eanicos\u201d<\/strong> os artistas demonstram os riscos dos produtos geneticamente modificados e sua influ\u00eancia junto a sociedade.
\nA instala\u00e7\u00e3o art\u00edstica \u00e9 dividida em tr\u00eas partes:<\/p>\n

A performance de abertura acontecer\u00e1 no s\u00e1bado, 11.8.07 \u00e0s 15 horas. Ela mostrar\u00e1 a estrutura e o crescimento da planta geneticamente modificada.
\nO segundo ato\/performance ser\u00e1 realizado no domingo, \u00e0s 15 horas destacando a expans\u00e3o e a avalia\u00e7\u00e3o cient\u00edfica dos riscos dos transg\u00eanicos.
\nA terceira performance ter\u00e1 lugar na ter\u00e7a, \u00e0s 19 horas, registrando as impress\u00f5es que os artistas tiveram sobre discurso pol\u00edtico e social no Brasil sobre o tema transg\u00eanicos e sobre a repercuss\u00e3o da instala\u00e7\u00e3o.
\nA instala\u00e7\u00e3o no museu Oscar Niemeyer \u00e9 parte de um projeto internacional art\u00edstico que Hina Struver e Matti Wuthrich ir\u00e3o desenvolver sobre os riscos dos transg\u00eanicos<\/strong> no Brasil, Su\u00ed\u00e7a e Vietnam.<\/p>\n

No site www.regrowingeden.ch h\u00e1 um question\u00e1rio did\u00e1tico sobre GMOs<\/a> \u2013 as respostas ser\u00e3o transformadas imediatamente em uma figura art\u00edstica ou uma planta virtual. Depois, os artistas ir\u00e3o criar um \u201cJardim do Eden virtual<\/strong>\u201d de cada pa\u00eds.
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