CASA ESQUIÇA
Casa Esquiça is a calling to the body.
Its walls have ears, eyes, a nose, a mouth, touch, and many other senses besides. Each plank that shapes it is a body with 9/10 orifices. To play in it is a full-time profession. It forms bonds and sparks wonder. It constellates holes. It blows and translates mixed forms of Being-Human. It sketches passageways for words to enter and exit freely, to fly from one side to the other and nest in the book of sand that surrounds it. Within it, we lay cosmic claim to the world, as if in a cave. Only those who converse may inhabit it.
Casa Esquiça is an entire settlement with organs of every kind, real and fictional. Based on a set of “esquiças” [sketches] made to the exact size of each of the orifices in the body-planks that make up the house, Os Espacialistas ask what a house can do through a series of mediations and measurements of real and imagined intensities, between the body at play and the body-planks, sketched out using anatomical units: spans, feet, fathoms, legs, cubits, inches, and rods.
Esquiçar is to pierce, to peek at, to desire, and to draw the world. An esquiça is the cylindrical volume that fills the hole: the negative void of the form of life through which senses, imagination, and time in their purest state spill forth; the anatomical foramen through which the tendons, vessels, and nerves of our flesh-and-bone bodies pass. An esquiça is a stick, a cylinder, a core, a cork, a plug, a string, a pipe, a duct, a finger, an arm, a leg, a face, a coin—the playful, immaterial positive of this fictional space.
Casa Esquiça gazes skyward. It is a poetic device for bodily closeness, fulfilling our primal urge to look poetically inside things. There, we can look at ourselves through it—and discover the importance of reconnecting, rereading, and reinventing the world, again and again. We are beings who peer into everything. The house sketches out the secrets of a cylindrical future world.
How many bodies does it take to make a house?
