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“Letter from a common shifting ground”
Ligia Nobre, "Letter from a common shifting ground.”
In Echoes of a Place, ed. Andrea Ancria, Jorge Munguía.
Mexico City: Buró-Buró, 2020. pp. 33-45
“Letter from a common shifting ground” This is a love letter and a farewell letter. A love letter also to the city where I was born and raised, São Paulo, to Ibirapuera Park and to the many multiplicities that take place there. This writing, at the invitation of Paola Santoscoy, then director and curator of the El Eco Museum in Mexico, was inaugural for me as a combination of personal and collective narratives. This text is part of the publication Eco de um Lugar (buro-buro, 2021), which brings together ten authors who were invited to write freely based on a particular architectural project for the museum's pavilions. My text was related to the Pavilion, proposed by APRDELESP in 2016, transforming the courtyard of the museum into a public park. Instead of writing about it, I proposed a mirroring or unfolding of what I perceived there to be potential uses on a micro scale in the Museum in Mexico, expanded to the larger scales of Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo and Central Park in New York, intertwining these three large metropolises in the Americas (or rather, Abya-Yala) and the micro scale of encounters and affections. This letter brings together affections, places, encounters, and disagreements between a dreamlike dimension and the pulsating experience of the Ibirapuera Marquee floor.
Echoes of a Place, 2020
Museo Experimental El ECO, Mexico
Pabellón Eco was launched in 2010 with the mission of offering a platform for architectural production, emphasizing experimentation and spatial reflection. Starting as an invitation-only, Mexico City-based contest, over the course of the past decade the project began to call for entries throughout the country, established a selection framework, began inviting curators to define research lines, and, finally, established an alliance with the UNAM’s Faculty of Architecture for implementing joint programming, known as Pabellón Eco: Panorama. Pabellón Eco consists of a temporary intervention on Mathias Goertiz’s emotional architecture, specifically the museum’s courtyard, which over the span of two months holds a public program with activities combining visual and performance arts, music, and conversations derived from the form and subjects proposed by the winning design and the program’s curator. Pabellón Eco is a collaboration between Museo Experimental el Eco and Buró-buró.
In 2020, Echoes of a Place was published, an editorial project by Buró-Buró, based on its long collaboration with the Museo Experimental el Eco (Mexico) in the realization of the architectural competition: Pabellón Eco. Echoes of a Place emerged as a quest to make a dynamic record of the pavilions and open up the space to new memories and derived concerns. It starts from an unproductive impulse to prolong conversations, provoke remote dialogues, unexpected lines of escape, connections, translations and misreadings around the seven Echo Pavilions developed in the museum's courtyard between 2010 and 2018. Echoes of a Place includes texts by Zara Khadeeja Majoka, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Ligia Nobre, Amanda Parmer, Fiep van Bodegom, Salomé Voegelin and Paola Santos Coy. The book was edited by Andrea Ancira and Jorge Munguía, and was made possible thanks to the support of the BBVA Foundation and the Graham Foundation.
sources: Paola SantosCoy, El Eco Museo Experimental website
photo: Parque Experimental El Eco (Experimental Park el Eco), by/por APRDELESP, 2016