Notebooks of European Contemporary Movement (Fundamental Laws and Absurd Dogmas)
In this series of visual, sound and literary micro-essays, Carlos Norton invites us to make a series of journeys and movements, highlighting the dynamics of cities and everyday life present in the different routes taken, between fundamental laws of physics and absurd dogmas.
The Notebooks of European Contemporary Movement (Fundamental Laws and Absurd Dogmas) are a compilation of 18 movements, divided into 5 notebooks, in which each micro-essay contains 1 photo, 1 text and 1 audio file.
PART I
Fundamental Laws of Kinetic and Potential Transboundary Movements
INTRODUCTION: Physics and poetry (by Teresa Lima)
MOVEMENT 02: Fundamental Law of Dynamics
MOVEMENT 03: Law of Action and Reaction
PART II
Absurd Dogmas (Notebooks I-V)
Notebook I – Non-existent movements
MOVEMENT 04: Dogma of Clockwise Mechanical Motion
MOVEMENT 05: Dogma of the Non-Apparent Movement of Small Clusters
MOVEMENT 06: Dogma of the Movement of Transported Inertia
Notebook II – Social Movements
MOVEMENT 07: Dogma of the Reclaiming Social Movement
MOVEMENT 08: Dogma of the Political Social Movement
MOVEMENT 09: Dogma of the Unilateral Movement to Safeguard Interests
Notebook III – Urban Movements
MOVEMENT 10: Dogma of the Linear Chaotic Movement
MOVEMENT 11: Dogma of Wandering Movement
MOVEMENT 12: Dogma of Momentary Contemplative Movement
Notebook IV – Tourist Movements
MOVEMENT 13: Dogma of Convergent Pedestrian Movement
MOVEMENT 14: Dogma of Divergent Pedestrian Movement
MOVEMENT 15: Dogma of Intermittent Pedestrian Movement
Notebook V – Intellectual Movements
MOVEMENT 16: Dogma of Creative Intellectual Movement
MOVEMENT 17: Dogma of Introspective Intellectual Movement
MOVEMENT 18: Dogma of Imaginative Intellectual Movement
Technical file
Images, texts and audio: Carlos Norton
Sounds recorded with Zoom H4n (movements 1 and 2) and Roland CS-10EM binaurals (movements 3 to 18)