The Promised Land: Requiem para Vilarinho das Furnas
The Promised Land

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"Video-sculpture for four to eight monitors, four U-Matic 625 lines video cassettes (black & white, silent) and performance with the simultaneous reading of texts from the Bible, Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault, 20', 1979-1980.
Images captured in Vilarinho das Furnas, October 1979." (Source, artist's website)

"I DEDICATE
this video involvement and this action
to Fernando Pessoa Almada Negreiros
my country my language
my joy my life

to Jorge Dias Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira António Campos
discovery of probable humanity

to Jorge Luis Borges José Guimarães Rosa
eternity, yes but not as slowly
sua calma sua alma

to Robert Morris Carl Andre Richard Long
Anne and Patrick Poirier Charles Simonds
body rock weight the ruin and its ghost

to Alberto Carneiro Claudio Costa
bread archeology "in regression"

to Marcel Mauss Lévi-Strauss Michel Foucault
the meaningless or wild speeches

to Julia Kristeva the foreigner
carnival and apocalypse

to Raul Brandão to the megalithic sculptors
of the Alentejo menhirs and

to all those who hope
the stone to bloom

in the Promised Land

Ernesto de Sousa, dedicatory in the brochure of "Vilarinho das Furnas", 1980." (Source, artist's website)

“Direction and photography by Ernesto de Sousa.
Filming by Fernando Curado Matos.
Assistance by Luísa Matos and Isabel Alves.
Editing by Vítor Leitão.
Produced by Secretaria de Estado da Cultura with support from Parque da Peneda-Gerês.
Technical support of Instituto de Tecnologia Educativa." (Source, artist's website)

Photographs of the filming location, of the filming, of the presentation with performance and readings of texts. (Source, artist's website)

Presentation place

- Arte Portuguesa Hoje, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisbon, January 1980. Texts read by Ana Hatherly, Ernesto de Sousa, Julião Sarmento and Teresa Gouveia O'Neill. - 3ème Symposium d'Art Performance de Lyon, ELAC, May 1981. - Polemic Tendencies in Contemporary Artistic Language Program, Círculo das Artes Plásticas, Coimbra, December 1982." (Source, site web de l'artiste Ernesto de Sousa)

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