Macau Sessions: Dialogues on Architecture and Society

Macau Sessions: Dialogues on Architecture and Society presentation
Macau Sessions: Dialogues on Architecture and Society original content explores the recent development of Macao, its territory and neighbouring regions, by linking themes such as architecture, city, border, memory, representation and history. It contains interviews with Hendrik Tieben, Thomas Daniell, Mário Duque, Wang Weijen, Diogo Burnay, Jianfei Zhu, Jorge Figueira, Werner Breitung and Pedro Campos Costa. Later, a visual essay developed by Nuno Cera was added offering an artistic perspective on the impact of urban growth on people and the territory. Both books (english and portuguese editions) will be on sale during the opening at Impromptu Storefront.

Site-specific Installation
How to display a book which is an object conceived to be read? How to dematerialize its shape and content? Can a book become an art piece? Through which process would a book become art? Here the book becomes pure volume and shape, while the interviews become a multitude of sounds from which you may be able to produce new significances. Is this still a book? Or is it a book in the process of becoming something else?
This project consists of creating an installation based on the book-object [published books] and the word-sound [recorded interviews] which, in an experimental confluence, cease to be the object of original study, to become the artistic object itself. Sonoplasty and sound installation designed by Rui Farinha.