Word Work World: the given Word universe

Abstract

This text, accompanied by a short visual essay, aims to present an artistic proposition entitled “Do you give me your word?”. In this context, I intend to establish relations between the artist and the spectator, when he is a participant in the work. “Do you give me your word?” is a work started by me in 2004 in the city of Macapá (AP / Brazil) and has been developing as a work in progress, hence forth renamed word in process, which includes its developmentsin recent years, such as installations, artist’s books and written narratives. The procedure I have been keeping is simple: I ask for the word, requesting it to be written on a wooden clothespin in the speaker’s mothertongue. The Word is given and gives rise to open writing. The line of the clothesline is the line of one anonymous poem, na contour of a probable horizon, verse and reverse of every Day manuscript. Here arises the attribute of choice: one word among as many as possible, where a signifiers lips from hand to hand. I have been asking for those who I come across in the most common and diverse situations of everyday life. These people make life a delicate thread that supports the imagination to each of us.   Article by invitation