Archive of Vibrant Matter

Basic Data

Description: Totem object, combining the yard from an used polo shirt with a marine sponge called Euplectella aspergillum or Venus Basket. Made by Jérémy Gobé who leads the Corail Artefact project, which combines art, science, industry and his aim to save corals, he partner with Luís Ferreira, a psychiatric nurse and art collector based in Lisbon to create a new artefact from one of Luís’s meaningful pieces of garment. This project was developed in Forum Design Paris 2021 and welcome in the Constellations of Porto Design Biennale 2021.
Credit: Renato Cruz Santos, 2021
Submitted by: Raquel Pais
Typology: Transforming Practice
Origin, Location and Movement?: Hyperlocal (Only found in a specific location)
Address: Casa do Design, Matosinhos
Item Relation: Assemblage of Things
State of abundance: Common
Date of creation: 10/07/2021
How was the item encountered or obtained?: Produced

Socio-cultural Data

Historical Uses

The Euplectella aspergillum or Venus Basketis is offered in Asia as a wedding gift as a wishing for a happy home for life, because when small carbs are born, they pair up very quickly and take shelter in these exoskeletons.

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Present Uses

When small carbs are born, they pair up very quickly and take shelter in these exoskeletons (The Euplectella aspergillum or Venus Basketis)

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Promesses

Transforming Practice, Assemblage of Things, Common, Produced, Museum,

Socio-cultural Data

Historical Uses

Historical Uses · Image / Video / Audio (.jpg, .png, .mp4, .mp3 up to 30MB)

Present Uses

Technical Data

Bio-temporal-geographical Data

How does the item affect the environment in which it exists?

Ontological-cosmological Data