Wandering around Tate Britain yesterday afternoon I came across the 1993 installation by Lucia Nogueira, entitled Vai e Vem (in English, Come and Go) purchased for the permanent collection sometime in 2008. The installation consists of a dvd player and tiny monitor screening a whirling spinning top which, as it moves across a sheet of paper, leaves in ink the trail of its passage in concentric shuddering curves, a range of hiccuppy blotches or sharp right-angled jolts, revealing the sudden changes in direction of the spinning child's toy, and a selection of paper images mounted on one wall depicting these various marks during successive spinning sessions.
In a descriptive notice explaining the artist's motivations for creating the piece, she describes her responses to what might be called the 'automatic drawings', the by-products of the work, which chart the arbitrary movements of the spinning top in its aimless trajectory that goes nowhere in particular and is a kind of fixing of the ephemeral and of play, and in reading this note I am reminded of the directionless time of writing once again extending before me, captured in letters and words, trapped within this sentence, pivoting upon this comma, and inferred in this ellipsis… going nowhere in particular, fixing...
Hiccuppy blotches...
Shuddering...
Arbitrary.
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