ONE, TWO and MANY | The Reading Body, or Infinity is the latest instalment in Marta Wengorovius's plastic and participatory artwork ONE, TWO, AND MANY.* This visual piece is also a method through which the artist explores issues stemming from intuition and the genesis of movement, emphasising the different dimensions of three types of dynamics: ONE as singularity and interiority, TWO as intimacy, and MANY as an encounter with the experience of community.
The programme will have a series of meetings, to take place between July 2023 and July 2024, between the MAAT and the Serra da Arrábida.
The Reading Body, or Infinity is an invitation to take part in a slow process of gestation and digestion: over the course of a year, a series of encounters will take place in the form of guided walks between a museum (maat) and a mountain range (Serra da Arrábida), activating the ONE, TWO, AND MANY* Library (a work created in 2012 that serves as a reflection guide for the OTM Method*) at a crossroads between the Book and the Body. Three books have been selected from the ONE, TWO, AND MANY Library. Each will be read over four months by each Utopian Family. The Time of ONE, the Time of TWO, and the Time of MANY. During each reading period, there will be a Stimulus-Encounter, Encounters with the Nomadic Notebooks* (OTM reading and exploration diaries) and Lessons Under the Trees.* [Please refer to the Glossary to better understand these different instalments.]
Designed specifically for maat, ONE, TWO, AND MANY | The body that reads, or infinity is the artwork's fourth instalment. This journey began with OTM — Nomadic School* | Taking the colours where they are most needed (2020–22) at Jardim dos Pintores, Casa da Cerca, Almada, followed by OTM Residency (2020–23) at Teatro do Bairro Alto (TBA), Lisbon, and more recently OTM | If a mountain range were to guide us (2022–23), at Brotéria, Lisbon.
In collaboration with Claire Nancy, Domenico Lancellotti, Liliana Coutinho, Lula Pena, Maria João Mayer Branco, Pedro Prazeres, Richard Kearney, Emma Bigé, Sofia Neuparth, Tomás Maia, and all of those who will activate the Nomadic Notebooks.
Nomadic Notebooks guests: Frederico Portas, Giulia Frascino, Hugo Chelo, Julieta Ruiz, and Maria Poppe.
CLOSING
06/07/2024 — 17.00–19.00
MAAT Garden
Marta Wengorovius | Domenico Lancellotti and jam with all the participants
In collaboration with:
Claire Nancy, Domenico Lancellotti, Liliana Coutinho, Lula Pena, Maria João Mayer Branco, Pedro Prazeres, Richard Kearney, Emma Bigé, Sofia Neuparth, Tomás Maia.
Nomadic Notebooks guests:
Frederico Portas, Giulia Frascino, Hugo Chelo, Julieta Ruiz, Maria Poppe.
Price per open session: 11€
Price per season: 28€
