POSTING project | INFINITY

POSTING project | INFINITY is a social sculpture project that aims to exercise collaboration, equanimity and togetherness among people of different creeds, races and nationalities. It consists of 65 chestnut fencing poles from sustainable woodlands engraved with poems, mantras and quotes, which were created with the purpose of being buried in Kentish/British soil, generating a tactile and visual web of tolerance, accessibility and clarity in juxtaposition to the worldwide web.

Following the donation of the entire set of engraved fencing poles, to be displayed in the shape of the infinity symbol, in open air institutions, woodlands, sculpture parks or fields, the artwork will have a QR code linking to www.marciaclayton.com/posting which will enable any visitors to read the inscriptions in full.

The first stage of the 4 year project, POSTING, was showcased on a smaller scale as an interactive installation having an audio set off by a sensor reciting poems, followed by a performance in the solo exhibition BORDERLINE at Bermondsey Project Space, in London 2021.

The second stage featured a proposal letter ‘HAIKUS FOR KENT’, addressed to artists, poets and thinkers, and posted by the SVAF (Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum) in the Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery newsletter, in May 2023.

The final stage, INFINITY, is to find a home in an open air space, measuring approximately 140 x 900 x 450 cm, to display the full form as the infinity symbol, credited to the renowned mathematician John Wallis (1655), born in Ashford, Kent 1616.

 

O POSTING project | INFINITY de escultura social objetiva o exercício colaborativo, equânime e de união entre povos de diferentes crenças, raças e nacionalidades. Consiste em 65 mourões de castanheira inglesa sustentável gravados com poemas, mantras e citações, criados com a intenção de serem fincados em solo Kentiano/britânico, gerando uma rede tátil e visual de tolerância, acesso e clareza, em justaposição a rede virtual de conexão global.

Após a disponibilização para instituições e/ou associações de bosques, parques de esculturas e campos, o conjunto da obra no formato do símbolo do infinito será verticalizado com um código QR, que permitirá a leitura de seu conteúdo através do site www.marciaclayton.com/posting.

A primeira etapa do projeto de 4 anos, POSTING, foi apresentada em uma escala menor como uma instalação interativa, portando um áudio a sensor de presença que recitava poemas, seguido por performance na abertura da exposição individual BORDERLINE, realizada na Galeria Bermondsey Project Space, em Londres 2021.

A segunda, caracterizou-se pela carta proposta ‘HAICAIS para KENT’, endereçada à artistas, poetas e pensadores, enviada pelo boletim de notícias da SVAF (SevenoaksVisual Arts Forum) da Galeria Sevenoaks Kaleisdoscope Kent , maio de 2023.

E a etapa final, INFINITY, é a doação e implantação dos 65 mourões ao ar livre no formato do símbolo do infinito, cuja criação em 1655 é creditada ao renomado matemático britânico, John Wallis, nascido em Ashford, Kent, em 1616.

POSTING

Chestnut poles engraved with artist’s poems and other participants to be buried in English soil | Mourões de castanheira inglesa gravados com poemas autorais e de outros participantes a serem fincados em solo inglês
185cm x variable diameters | diâmetros variáveis
2019-2023

stay alive
( I don ́t know why
perhaps for the bluebells
encountered on my walks;
that rug, wardrobe, barn;
for the loo outside
without a bathtub or a shower;
for all the cutlery
and white John Lewis china
in the cupboard
or for the sake of
a 12 year old Volvo gearbox )
Stay alive again
for the cover on the swimming pool
it is going to be taken off in May
and you don’t have a shower cap
Do your mantras
and count the plasticky tulipes,
the angels flying on the
stained glasses of Tudeley
Put the lid back on the glue
or nothing will stick

First poem from Posting
Márcia Clayton

The first stage of the project was displayed as an installation followed by a performance in ‘BORDERLINE’, a solo art exhibition held at Bermondsey Project Space gallery, in London 2021.

A primeira etapa do projeto foi apresentada como uma instalação performativa na mostra individual ‘BORDERLINE’, realizada na galeria Bermondsey Project Space, em Londres 2021.

HAIKUS FOR KENT

(proposal letter | carta proposta)

Dear colleagues,

I am finishing an art project ‘POSTING’, in which I use 65 chestnut fencing poles engraved with poems or thoughts. They are to be buried in Kentish soil and I would very much appreciate the participation of local artists, poets and thinkers with sending a haiku, or very small poem – no need to follow the Japanese rules – to my email info@marciaclayton.com.

The theme can be the county of Kent and its natural assets, although not necessarily. The only prerequisites are not to include political, religious or discriminative contents.

Whoever is interested, might as well, take the opportunity to visit my site www.marciaclayton.com/posting (plus instagram @marciaxclayton) and get to know my production in art.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,
Márcia Clayton

Towering white cliffs,
Shingle beaches, sandy shores,

The sea meets Kentish soil.

 

‘Coast’, Susanne Beard

Born a Maid of Kent
Still enchanted with its fruits
Flora and Fauna

 

Diana Poliak

Monitoring logs
of a tropical mind.
Seed.
All felled by the same presage,
the same salt of the earth.

 

Joice Ferrão

Love with no hifen, indelible body
circumscribed to the stars.
Infinite love.

 

Joice Ferrão

INFINITY

Environmental installation | Instalação ambiental
65 sustainable chestnut fencing poles and inscriptions | 65 mourões de castanheira inglesa e inscrições
140x900x450cm
2019-2024

Poems by Márcia Clayton, haikus and quotes by collaborators | Poemas de Márcia Clayton, Haikus e citações de colaboradores.

Support:
SEVENOAKS TOWN COUNCIL

Greatness Recreation Ground
Mill Lane . Sevenoaks
TN14 5BX
England

3D model simulation | Simulação 3D

Scale model with sun studies | Maquete com estudo do sol.

INFINITY . Greatness Recreation Ground
Sevenoaks . England

Join the project

If you feel inclined to help or participate in anyway, such as lending equipment (tractor with POST HOLE BORER), providing transport (small trailer) or writing a ‘HAIKU FOR KENT’ (the last 5 ones), please, send it to info@marciaclayton.com.

Participe do projeto

Se tiver a disponibilidade para colaborar, há três maneiras: empréstimo do equipamento PERFURADOR DE POSTE, transporte em trailer até a locação e/ou escrever um ‘HAIKAI PARA KENT’. Enviar conteúdo e dúvidas para info@marciaclayton.com.

Working on POSTING project

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, born in São Paulo/Brazil and based in Rio de Janeiro and Kent. I graduated in Languages and have been working with art for the last 30 years.

My practice traverses various mediums using language as displacement experience, question identity issues and evoke alternative force fields for the human condition.

 

Sou uma artista multidisciplinar nascida em São Paulo/Brasil e vivo entre Rio de Janeiro e Kent. Graduada em Letras, venho trabalhando com arte nos últimos 30 anos.

Minhas obras atravessam diversas linguagens enquanto experiência de deslocamento, problematizam questões identitárias e de gênero, e evocam campos de força alternativos para a condição humana.