Reconstruction of art and craft processes and materials using manuals, recipe collections and technical treatises on ceramics, glass, and porcelain.
Within the international network Active Matter, there is a focus on the role of fire as the agent in human-material interaction, investigating how craftsmen achieved the temperatures required in ceramic-making, enamelling, and glazing. In collaboration with LiDA (IPLeiria), VICARTE is constructing a vertical camera obscura based on Kepler’s description, alongside other visual recording devices that contributed to the history of image formation and capturing.
Using a notation system developed by NOVA LINCS for the systematic documentation of gestures, VICARTE aims to identify, preserve, and transmit the heritage of tacit skills in artistic and artisanal processes.
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