Pontos G – Chakras Invertidos
“Pontos G – Chakras Invertidos” is an interactive sensory platform-based installation. By means of proximity sensors triggered by movements, it promotes communications and aesthetic expressions activated by the body mobility of its interactors. It is a location-based radiant sculpture of seven colours, whose format goes back to a spine and rib cage, inviting the audience to pass through its sensorial inner section and become expressive agents of its manifestations.
In the female anatomy, the so-called “G-spot” is a certain place inside the genitalia that causes an above average sensorial peak. However, whether in antiquity or in the contemporary world, every human being experiences situations that also cause”real time” spikes in their emotional load, not necessarily always pleasant. While oriental currents attribute such variations to the (un)balance of the chakras (primordial energetic points located linearly from the head to the lower hip), Wilhelm Reich’s orgonotic psychoanalysis argues for a “vital energy” triggered at four distinct moments: tension, charge, discharge and relaxation.
In this way, this artistic project will seek to discuss the contemporary perception “of the self and its environment” from a set of local sounds, recorded and distorted in the installation by the public itself. Thus, from “inside out” the “G-spot” of each chakra gives off metaphorised energies in sound and light concerning tension, charge, discharge and relaxation, whose combination is generated in the interaction with the individual, and produces affective-rational variations between pleasure, ecstasy, relief, tension, and frustration.
This aesthetic re-signification of a possible fusion between chakras and orgonotic vital energy has been explored since 2008, in works of formats and consequences, occurring in Brazil (2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015), Spain (2009) and Hungary (2011) which are unique and singular. Thus, this “rereading” comes to propose an unpublished “final work”, distinct from all previous manifestations.
Paulo Teles wishes to acknowledge the collaboration with multimedia artist, screenwriter and audiovisual producer Juliano Prado,
theatre director, set designer and sculptor, Jésus Seda
and actress, handicafts artist and teacher Rosana Bernardo.
Bio notes
Paulo Cesar Teles is a media-artist, graduated in Radio and Television from the Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication at Paulista State University – UNESP (1992); Master in Multimedia by the Institute of Arts of UNICAMP (2001); PhD in Communication and Semiotics at PUC-SP (2009), with a postdoctoral degree from the School of Communications and Arts at USP (2015). Professor of Higher Education since 2001 and Professor of the Arts Institute of the State University of Campinas – UNICAMP since 2011, he works in the Graduate Programs in Visual Arts (IA) and in Scientific Publicity (Labjor); in the course of Specialization in Graphic Design and in the undergraduate courses in Visual Arts and Social Communication – Midialogy.
With more than thirty years of performance dedicated to artistic production, during which many of his artefacts and research works have been produced, exhibited and presented in Brazil and in more countries, he currently develops multimedia sensory installations. His present artistic productions and academic research are focused on technological art; interactive processes in rising media; audiovisual narratives; transculture; and multiplatform edu-communication through Art. He is also coordinator of the ARTME Research Group (Art, Technology and Emerging Media: Development, Literacies and Transculture) and research member of the MANTIS Research Group (Color, Tint and Visual Syntax).
INVITRO-Gerador is a distance artistic residency sponsored by DGArtes (the Directorate-General for the Arts, of the Portuguese Government), Artech-International, Aberta University, CIAC – the Research Centre in Communication and Arts (Centro de Investigação em Artes e Comunicação), the International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) and the Association of Visual Expression and Communication Teachers (APECV).
