http://www.joao-machado.com Joao Machado Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:32:45 +0000 http://www.joao-machado.com en http://www.joao-machado.com/Filhos-de-Saturno http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Filhos-de-Saturno Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:32:45 +0000 Joao Machado 2701879 <img src="http://payload20.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2701879/winnerframe_1.jpg" width="124" height="158" width_o="124" height_o="158" src_o="http://payload20.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2701879/winnerframe_1_o.jpg" data-mid="13946934" border="0" align="left"/> Filhos de Saturno/Sons of Saturn (ENGLISH VERSION) (versão em língua portuguesa em breve....) FDS 28 JUL 2007-Small from joao machado on Vimeo. Filme experimental. Parte documentário, parte ficção. Filhos de Saturno conta uma história de ficção com uso de imagens de arquivo de uma única família. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Part documentary, part fiction. Sons of Saturn is a narrative experiment that tells a fictional story with the use of real archival footage of a family. A grandfather, a father and a son, bound by a legacy that goes beyond the intertwining branches of their family tree. A bond beyond time, beyong distance. 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FDS 28 JUL 2007-Small from joao machado on Vimeo. Filme... http://www.joao-machado.com/ATLAS http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/ATLAS Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:03:23 +0000 Joao Machado 5398304 O TEMPO É A VERDADE DO HOMEM Quem me disse que “O tempo é a verdade do homem.” foi uma mulher de 90 anos. Me curvo perante essa frase sem saber exatamente o que ela quer dizer. Frases geralmente têm gosto, frases têm cheiro. Você gosta ou não gosta, julga, aceita, descarta, bota no bolso, come e digere. A verdade é que eu não consigo tocar nessa frase. Ela não me pertence e escapa por entre meus dedos como areia numa ampola. De tempo, conheço apenas aquele que dói, aquele tempo aonde as lembranças estão cristalizadas como esculturas no jardim da memória. Um tempo de Cronos devorando seus filhos, que é o mesmo do Pacman perdido num labirinto fugindo de seus fantasmas. Preciso acreditar que existam outras maneiras de ver o tempo. Os japoneses têm um conceito chamado Wabi-Sabi que, entres suas premissas, sustenta a idéia de que tudo está vindo ou indo em direção ao nada. Uma flor que brota está saindo do nada enquanto uma flor que apodrece está se direcionando para esse mesmo nada. Mas o nada aqui não é o vazio da morte. O nada, nesse caso, representa puro potencial. O tempo é aquilo que nos carrega de um potencial a outro. Ao contrário do tempo devorador de Saturno, esse tempo potencial é materno, pois nos faz nascer a cada instante com infinitas possibilidades de transformação. “O Tempo é a Verdade do Homem” talvez não signifique que o tempo, tal como um cego justiceiro, irá desnudar as coisas até enfrentarmos algum tipo de julgamento final. Nada na natureza me faz pensar que seja assim. Acredito mais que “O Tempo é a Verdade do Homem” pois o tempo é movimento e é dele que se gerou tudo o que somos e conhecemos. O tempo somos nós. 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Me curvo perante essa frase sem saber exatamente o... http://www.joao-machado.com/Natureza-Inquieta http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Natureza-Inquieta Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:36:45 +0000 Joao Machado 5398259 Natureza Inquieta é um filme experimental com o objetivo de documentar o meu processo criativo durante o seu desenvolvimento. VERSAO EM PORTUGUES UNQUIET NATURE Portugues from joao machado on Vimeo. ENGLISH VERSION Unquiet Nature Cut 2.1-desktop from joao machado on Vimeo. Natureza Inquieta é um filme experimental com o objetivo de documentar o meu processo criativo durante o seu desenvolvimento. VERSAO EM PORTUGUES UNQUIET NATURE... http://www.joao-machado.com/Neon-Indian-6669 http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Neon-Indian-6669 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:21:43 +0000 Joao Machado 2748335 NeonIndian: 6669 (I Don't Know If You Know) directed by Joao Machado. <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2748335/neon_indian_pitchfork_polaroid.jpg" width="500" height="732" width_o="500" height_o="732" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2748335/neon_indian_pitchfork_polaroid_o.jpg" data-mid="14301609" border="0" align="left"/> Neon Indian NeonIndian: 6669 (I Don't Know If You Know) directed by Joao Machado. Neon Indian http://www.joao-machado.com/BOPPERS-JOAO-BOBO-CUL-BUTO http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/BOPPERS-JOAO-BOBO-CUL-BUTO Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:14:49 +0000 Joao Machado 3751159 Kinetic sculpture 150cm height resin and lead Kids on art field trip playing with sculpture at the Galerie Rauchfeld in Paris <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/joaoejoaobobo_640.jpg" width="640" height="853" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/joaoejoaobobo_o.jpg" data-mid="19496110" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/bopperkids_640.jpg" width="640" height="480" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/bopperkids_o.jpg" data-mid="19496160" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/bopper_640.jpg" width="640" height="960" width_o="2048" height_o="3072" src_o="http://payload72.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3751159/bopper_o.jpg" data-mid="19495956" border="0" align="left"/> Kinetic sculpture 150cm height resin and lead Kids on art field trip playing with sculpture at the Galerie Rauchfeld in Paris http://www.joao-machado.com/The-Champagne-Club http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/The-Champagne-Club Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:13:03 +0000 Joao Machado 2701930 <img src="http://payload20.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2701930/winnerframe_1.jpg" width="246" height="158" width_o="246" height_o="158" src_o="http://payload20.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2701930/winnerframe_1_o.jpg" data-mid="13946991" border="0" align="left"/> To purchase the full length version, click *here Based on a letter written by Jonathan Hacke, an artist and mental patient at a psychiatric institution. “The Champagne Club” is a shocking and profoundly innovative journey in the heart of madness. Four thrill-seeking aristocrats of the Los Angeles art scene set out on a vacation to an exotic tropical villa. There, they find exquisite foods,the finest champagne, an abundance of drugs, and all the time in the world to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. 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src="http://payload73.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3762161/gravura7 copy_640.jpg" width="640" height="914" width_o="2048" height_o="2926" src_o="http://payload73.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/3762161/gravura7 copy_o.jpg" data-mid="19564889" border="0" align="left"/> CAVERNA GEOMÉTRICA Na natureza existem vários seres que, no decorrer de suas vidas, deixam para traz vestígios físicos de sua evolução. Insetos deixam casulos e cobras trocam de pele. Entre nós humanos, as transformações ocorrem de forma diferente pois possuímos a memória que nos permite a identificação e a comparação com aquilo que já fomos um dia. Graças à memória, carregamos internamente um pouco desses casulos, peles secas e outras carcaças fruto de nossas transformações. Além disso, a natureza inquieta do homem faz com que ele queira materializar para além da memória as suas transformações. As constantes mudanças que pontuam nossa existência somam-se no que pode ser chamado de nossa história de vida. Porém, a nossa memória é ainda mais ampla e carrega também vestígios de gerações passadas, formando assim a história da humanidade. Indissociável da nossa evolução como espécie, está a história da arte, que nos acompanha desde os tempos pré-históricos. Talvez a arte seja o que mais se assemelhe a estes vestígios de transformação encontrados na natureza. No seu rastro, se encontram tudo aquilo que fomos, que somos e que queremos ser. A série de gravuras “Caverna Geométrica” foi concebida a partir de fotografias que tirei de moldes de esculturas em bronze na extinta fundição Fonderie Godard, situada nos arredores de Paris. Assim como os casulos para os insetos, o molde de silicone é uma membrana feita à imagem do corpo que abrigou e ajudou a gerar em seu ventre. A forma côncava dos moldes também se assemelha às cavernas, o que vai de encontro ao tema da evolução do homem desde seus primeiros registros nas paredes das cavernas. Recentemente, a antropóloga Geneviève Von Petzinger liderou um estudo e criou um acervo visual dos símbolos geométricos encontrados em diversas cavernas pelo mundo. Além das célebres imagens de caça, existe um grupo de símbolos não-figurativos como o espiral, o triângulo e o círculo, entre muitos outros. Talvez nunca iremos decifrar essas formas de comunicação gráfica de nossos antepassados. Incorporei alguns desses misteriosos símbolos do acervo de Von Petzinger às fotos dos moldes, mas não fiquei feliz com o resultado. A idéia estava lá mas faltava alguma coisa. Faltava o tempo. O efeito do tempo que funde uma escultura em bronze, uma borboleta ou a história da humanidade. Precisei criar o tempo artificialmente e me lembrei do que acontece com o vídeo quando se faz uma cópia da cópia. O nome disso é perder uma geração de imagem. Achei a técnica da “geração perdida” perfeita não só simbolicamente como também no resultado estético. A cada geração que eu perdia, a imagem se transformava em aberrações de cores e perdia sucessivamente mais detalhes até se tornar uma vaga lembrança da imagem inicial. O resultado final se parece menos com algo pré-histórico do que com algum vídeo ou imagem de computador antigo. A pré-história do digital, talvez. Essa estética da imagem digital antiga tem um peso maior para mim do que dez cavernas de Lascaux porque esse foi um passado que eu vivi. A estética de vídeo games de 8 bits e das aberturas psicodélicas de programas de televisão vistos na infância. Na experiência desse projeto, pude ver os pontos digitados em tinta ocre nas cavernas pelos primeiros humanos assim como as minhas próprias digitais, marcando em pixels a superfície de uma tela. Entre esses dois polos está a história de nossa passagem pela terra e a batalha obsessiva do homem em marcar sua presença num universo que a todo momento o lembra da sua insignificância. Joao Machado Paris /Julho / 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GEOMETRIC CAVE There are various species found in nature, that along their lives, leave behind a physical manifestation of their evolution. Some insects leave empty cocoons and snakes change their skin. Amongst us humans, our transformations happen differently, but we possess memory, which allows us to identify and compare how much we’ve changed. Thanks to memory, we internally carry our cocoons, changed skin and other carcasses of our transformations. The constant changes that mark our existence, amount to what could be described as the story of our lives. In fact, we even carry a collective memory which helps us trace back to the history of humanity itself. Locked into our evolution as a species is the history of art, whom we can trace back to pre historic times. Perhaps art is that which comes closer to these physical manifestations of change found in nature. In the trace of art history, we can find out all that we were, all that we are and that which we aspire to be. The print series “Geometric Cave” was conceived from photographs I took from sculpture casts taken at the extinct bronze foundry Fonderie Godard in the outskirts of Paris. Much like the insect’s empty cocoon, a silicone sculpture cast is a shell made to the image of the body which it helped shape in it’s womb. The hollow, concave form of the cast resembles a cave, which tied in perfectly to the theme of evolution since the early days of prehistoric caves. Recently, Anthropologist Genevieve Von Petzinger studied and put together a visual archive of geometric signs found in early cave art. Beyond the famous hunting images, there’s a group of non-figurative symbols like the spiral, the triangle, circle and many others. We may never be able to decipher these forms of graphic communication of our forefathers. I incorporated some of these mysterious symbols from Von Petzinger’s archive to the photos of the sculpture casts. The idea was there but it didn’t feel right yet. I was missing the element of time. The effect of time which has the power to cast bronze, a butterfly or the history of mankind for that matter. I needed to create time artificially and I remembered what happens in video when you make a copy of a copy. This is referred to as loosing an image generation. I found this technique of “lost generation” perfect not only thematically but also esthetically. With each generation lost, the image altered it’s colors and lost much of it’s detail until it became a vague rememberance of the original file. The final result looks less prehistoric then it does like an old video or computer image. This aged digital look carries a stronger weight for me then ten Lascaux caves put together because this was a past which I personally lived through. It reminded me of early video synthesyzers, 8 bit video games and psychedelic tv titles. In the process of this project, I was able to see finger paintings made with ocre paint on the cave walls by the first humans. I was also able to see my own finger, marking pixels on a computer screen. Between these two poles, lay the history of our time on this planet and man’s obsessive battle in marking his presence in a universe that forever reminds us of our insignificance. Joao Machado Paris /July / 2012 CAVERNA GEOMÉTRICA Na natureza existem vários seres que, no decorrer de suas vidas, deixam para traz vestígios físicos de sua evolução. Insetos deixam... http://www.joao-machado.com/Insect-Erotica http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Insect-Erotica Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:06:17 +0000 Joao Machado 2748748 <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2748748/cartaz_insect.jpg" width="200" height="286" width_o="200" height_o="286" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2748748/cartaz_insect_o.jpg" data-mid="13946719" border="0" align="left"/> O ciclo da vida dos insetos serve de inspiração para este curta-metragem de animação. Os hábitos sexuais peculiares de certas espécies coloca em questão a natureza do amor assim como a razão de nossa existência. 2010, filme de animação / 10 minutos. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The life cycle of insects serve as inspiration for this animated short. The peculiarly gruesome sexual habit of certain insects reflect upon the nature of love and the reason of our existence. 2010, stop motion animation, 10 min Produced Written and Directed by Joao Machado Edited by Joao Machado & Mark Weisner Original music by Marcio Tinoco Sound design Nado Leal O ciclo da vida dos insetos serve de inspiração para este curta-metragem de animação. Os hábitos sexuais peculiares de certas espécies coloca em questão a... http://www.joao-machado.com/Os-Amputados http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Os-Amputados Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:34:41 +0000 Joao Machado 2748521 Open publication Copyright ©2005 João Machado Registered at the National Library of Brazil. To acquire the english printed hard cover version, please go to blurb. Open publication Copyright ©2005 João Machado Registered at the National Library of Brazil. To acquire the english printed hard cover version, please go to... http://www.joao-machado.com/Mapas http://www.joao-machado.com/following/joao-machado.com/Mapas Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:11:53 +0000 Joao Machado 2747822 Fancy Todos nós precisamos de um mapa, de uma maneira de ver o mundo. Precisamos de mapas para entender o mundo físico no qual habitamos e o espiritual, como ocorre, por exemplo, com a astrologia. Precisamos, enfim, dos mapas para nos comunicarmos uns com os outros na constante busca da vida. Uma busca que estende nosso olhar tanto para a extensão da galáxia como para as profundezas de nosso espaço interior. Joao Machado, Los Angeles, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Everybody needs a map to understand the physical world we live in. We look to maps to understand the spiritual world, as in astrology, for example. We need maps to understand each other in this constant exploration. An exploration of both the extent of the galaxy and the depths of our own inner-space. Joao Machado, Los Angeles, 2006 <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/empireofyouth_640.jpg" width="640" height="383" width_o="2048" height_o="1225" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/empireofyouth_o.jpg" data-mid="14282845" caption="Empire of youth, 2011, map collage, 150 x 200 cm" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/empireofyouth 1_640.jpg" width="640" height="527" width_o="2048" height_o="1687" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/empireofyouth 1_o.jpg" data-mid="14296670" caption="Empire of youth 2, 2011, map collage, 150 x 200 cm" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/detailempire_640.jpg" width="640" height="919" width_o="678" height_o="974" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/detailempire_o.jpg" data-mid="14357723" caption="Empire detail" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/dive.jpg" width="442" height="640" width_o="442" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/dive_o.jpg" data-mid="14301965" caption="dive, 2010, map collage, 150 x 200 cm" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/swimming_high_640.jpg" width="640" height="409" width_o="2000" height_o="1277" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/swimming_high_o.jpg" data-mid="13940738" caption="Swimming, 2007, map collage, 125 x 180 cm" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/tube_high_640.jpg" width="640" height="774" width_o="1056" height_o="1277" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/tube_high_o.jpg" data-mid="13940743" caption="Tub, 2006, map collage, 40 x 50 cm" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/african_high_640.jpg" width="640" height="402" width_o="1640" height_o="1029" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/african_high_o.jpg" data-mid="13940772" caption="African war dance, 2007, map collage, 45 x 76 cm" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/african_640.jpg" width="640" height="853" width_o="2048" height_o="2730" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/african_o.jpg" data-mid="14358023" caption="african war dance (detail)" border="0" align="left"/>{image 7}{image 14}{image 19}<img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/mapcouple.jpg 1_640.jpg" width="640" height="573" width_o="1464" height_o="1310" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/mapcouple.jpg 1_o.jpg" data-mid="19496372" caption="Map Couple ,150X120cm, 2012" border="0" align="left"/> {image 17}<img src="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/meattruck_high_640.jpg" width="640" height="332" width_o="2000" height_o="1039" src_o="http://payload22.cargocollective.com/1/6/193801/2747822/meattruck_high_o.jpg" data-mid="13940908" caption="My body is a meat truck carrying a brain, 2007, anatomy book collage, 170 x 100 cm" border="0" align="left"/> Fancy Todos nós precisamos de um mapa, de uma maneira de ver o mundo. Precisamos de mapas para entender o mundo físico no qual habitamos e o espiritual, como...