This page is a compilation of research material, found and collected during the research for this project. Below, you can find a very wide ecology of resources, from essays, photographs, videos, documentaries, news articles, official documentation, cartography, websites, blogs, objects, tools, sculptures. These materials played a crucial role in understanding marble holistically, from an animist perspective to a governance issue, a material of expression for classical sculptures before Christ, to the tools that mine and transform this 'resource', from its geological structure, mineral structure and how these different agents have been weaving a network of agents, and actors on the landscape, categorising it and quarrying it for exploitation.

It is a long history woven in or rather — with — time. Much as with any network thread, the possibility linkage is immensurable. The archive thus assumes itself as plastic material, an assemblage, in Fluxus. Furthermore, it reveals not only the selected resources but also the resources omitted.


In this archive, I tried to collect things that were important to me, to my investigation and to the development of this project. It serves only to prove it’s incompletion. Albeit personally, this is perhaps the most interesting point. The incompleteness of this project draws the possibility to be but a provocation, a starting point, to your sensibilities, and your own investigation by revealing the vast extent of these nuanced and interconnected networks often overlooked when gazing the landscape and materials that surround us.

The seemingly anarchic order of this archive attempts to achieve and non-structural and non-hierarchical form of researching. By making things somewhat difficult to find, unexpected connections might occur. Additionally, browsing through different points-of-view, and different disciplines is, an attempt to grasp a more holistic view over these issues. Often in separation, speaking nearly different languages, using their terminologies, aesthetics and imaginaries, archives are compartmentalised, and in here, just as in Borges Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge (1948), reshuffled.

Moreover, it reveals a critical point to this project: empathy, and the scientific difficulty of understanding the world sensitively, and outside of a functionalist, anthropocentric view.

Lastly, it mustn't be omitted that these materials constitute part of my artistic practice. This archaeology of knowledge is precisely the critical analysis of these elements and the possibility of forming new, ambiguous relationships between them. 


— João Gil, 2020




Database last updaded:
Sep 2020
 Name
Author
Publisher
Keywords
Type
Link



About a Stone: Some Notes on Geologic Conviviality
Hugo Reinert
Environmental Humanities
May 2016
Environment, Humanities, Animism
Document, Essay



Contribuição para o conhecimento tectono-estratigráfico do Nordeste Alentejano— pt. I
Joaquim Luís Galego Lopes
Departamento de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
2003
Anticline, Geology, Marble
Document, Thesis



Contribuição para o conhecimento tectono-estratigráfico do Nordeste Alentejano — pt. II
Joaquim Luís Galego Lopes
Departamento de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
2003
Anticline, Geology, Marble
Document, Thesis



Contribuição para o conhecimento tectono-estratigráfico do Nordeste Alentejano — pt. III
Joaquim Luís Galego Lopes
Departamento de Geologia da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
2003
Anticline, Geology, Marble
Document, Thesis



Mármore, património para o Alentejo: contributos para a sua história (1850-1986)
Daniel Alves, et al
Theya Editores, CECHAP – Centro de Estudos de Cultura, História, Artes e Patrimónios
2015
Marble, Anticline, History, Industry
Document, Study



Mármore, 2 000 anos de história, Volume I:
Da Antiguidade à idade Moderna
Vítor Serrão, Clara Moura Soares e André Carneiro
Theya Editores, CECHAP – Centro de Estudos de Cultura, História, Artes e Patrimónios
2015
Marble, Anticline, History
Document, Study



Reconhecimento do mármore de Estremoz como pedra património mundial
Luís Lopes, Ruben Martins
Revista de Cultura,
n°25, 2018. 
Marble, Patrimony, Heritage
Document, Official Proposal



Dormir entre cinco estrelas de mármore em Vila Viçosa
n.d.
Público,
2013

Marble, Hotel, Estremoz
News Article, Online



Diário da República n.o 45, SÉRIE I-A
Presidência da República
Presidência da República
2019
Investigation, Law, Quarries, Estremoz, Anticline, Goverment
Official Document



Diário da República n.o 201, SÉRIE I-B
Presidência da República
Presidência da República
1993
Territory, Plan, Environment, Law,
Official Document



As Pedras e o Homem: Mármores de Portugal
Directed by José Caria
Produced by Elias Produção Mendonça
RTP 1, Jun 1976
Documentary, Marble, Estremoz
Video, Documentary



Catalogue des Produits Mineraux du Portugal. Exposition Universelle de Londres 1862
Whiting, C.
Beaufort House, 1862
Universal Exhibition, Marble, Portugal, London
Catalogue



O estado em que ficou a estrada que abateu em Borba: autoridades procuram pessoas soterradas
n.d.
Expresso, Online, 2018
Road, Quarry, Accident
Video



Diamond Saw Blades for Marble Block Cutting
n.d.
CS Diamond Tools
Tools, Marble, Diamond Saw
Product



Manufacturers of Marble, Stone, Granite and Bricklayers’ Tools, Stone Jacks, Derricks, and Contractors’ Supplies
Peggy B. Perazzo
Peggy B. Perazzo, Reproduction
Brunner & Lay, Official publisher
Tools, Marble, Industrial Revolution
Catalogue Collection



Manual for Derrick 200 DR 5/10 Litronic
n.d.
Liebherr
n.d.
Crane, Derrick
Technical Data Sheet



Convento dos Congregados
António Franco
Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
n.d.
Monument, Church, Marble, Estremoz, Heritage, Patrimony
Architectural Blueprint



The Parthenon Sculptures,
Marble statue of two female figures from the East pediment of the Parthenon
Pheidias
n.d. / British Museum
ca. 438BC-432BC
Parthenon, Greece, Sculptures, Marble, Classicism, Acropolis
Sculptures



The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
Talbot, Margaret
New York Times, 2018
Classicism, Myth, Whiteness,
Archaeology
News Article



Portal of Heritage and History of the Marble Industry
n.d.
CECHAP – Centro de Estudos de Cultura, História, Artes e Patrimónios
2020
Marble, Patrimony, Heritage
Website



Nature in Roman Catholic Tradition
Binde, Per.
JSTOR
Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 1, 2001
Nature, Culture, Division, Catholic, Tradition, Religion
Document, Essay
www.jstor.org/stable/3318300



Interior of a luxurious hotel with marble greek statues.

Razyph [username]
Dreamstime
Las Vegas, Replica, Caesar Palace, Classicism
Stock Photograph



Non-Human Rights
Paulo Tavares
World of Matter
Non-Human Rights, Animism, Ethics, Nature
Video



Marble head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet
n.d.
ca. A.D.14–68
n.d.
Property of Met Museum
Sculpture, Marble, Deity, Classicism, Roman Empire
Sculpture



Roteiro do Património Histórico e Arquitetónico
n.d.
Rota do Mármore do Anticlinal de Estremoz
Tour, Marble, Estremoz, Tourism
Touristic Tour
https://www.rotadomarmoreae.com/pt/visit/1



Actor–network theory
Various Contributers
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2020
Actor-Network, Latour, Theory, Design, Anthropology
Wikipedia Article



Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

Bruno Latour
Wiley, 2017
Gaia, Ecology, Antropocene, Environment, Democracy
Book



Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
Bruno Latour
Harvard University Press, 2009
Nature, Politics, Democracy, Environment
Book



Estudo de Impacte Ambiental, Resumo não técnico, Pedreira Poço Bravo 2, Santiago Rio de Moinhos, Borba.
n.d.
Cevalor
Cevalor — Centro Tecnológico para o Aproveitamento Valorização Rochas Ornamentais e Industriais
Environment, Impacts, Quarry, Plans
Environmental Study



Escombreiras – Uma mais valia na Indústria das Pedras Naturais
José Cardoso Guedes
Cevalor — Centro Tecnológico para o Aproveitamento Valorização Rochas Ornamentais e Industriais
Environment, Impacts, Quarry, Plans
Waste Management Study



Forensis, Non-Human Rights
Paulo Tavares
Berlin Sternberg/Forensic Architecture
Environmental Humanities, Social Contract, Environment
Chapter of Book
pp.553



Há 191 pedreiras em situação crítica
Paulo Paixão
Expresso
Quarry, Danger
News Article



Feridas na paisagem. Há mais de mil pedreiras abandonadas e inativas
Nuno Guedes
TSF
Quarry, Abandoned, Landscape
News Article



Edifícios clandestinos na pedreira que pretendia abrir restaurante suspenso a 120 metros de altura
Paulo Paixão
Expresso
Quarry, Restaurant, Clandestine
News Article



Mármores de Portugal
José Caria
RTP 1
Quarry, Marble, Exploration, Historical
Documentary, Series, Episode



As pedreiras de Borba e Estremoz
N/A
RTP 1
Quarry, Water Contamination, Landscape, Analysis
News Exerpt, Video



Canto de Trabalho na Pedreira


Michel Giacometti, Fernando Tropa
RTP 1
Quarry, Workers, Ethnography
Documentary, Video



O Bom Sabor do Alentejo
José Hermano Saraiva
RTP2
Alentejo, Region, Marble, Monuments, History
Video, Episode



A vida nas pedreiras: Histórias de lutas entre forças desiguais

Vânia Maia
Visão
Quarry, Workers, Tension, Power, Landscape
Article



The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture

The New Yorker
Marble, Myth, Whiteness, White Supremacy, Greek, History
News Article



Cartas Geológicas Temáticas do Anticlinal de Estremoz

N/A
LNEG
Maps
Cartography



Castelo de Estremoz
N/A
SIPA, Sistema de Informação do Património Arquitectónico
Monument, Castle, Location
Image, Monument Entry



Igreja de Santa Maria de Estremoz
N/A
SIPA, Sistema de Informação do Património Arquitectónico
Monument, Curch, Marble
Image, Monument Entry



Telejornal, 19 Nov. 2018
N/A
RTP1
Landslide, News, TV
News



stone cutting wire saw multi top grade diamond wire saw for wholesale
EIN DIAMOND TOOLS
Alibaba
Marble, Diamond Wire, Alibaba
Product, Shop



Empresários portugueses de mármores partem à conquista da China

Inês Sequeira
Público
Article, China, Marble, Markets, Business
News Article



Borba: APA nega qualquer intervenção no licenciamento das pedreiras
CE
TVI24
Environment, Agency, Responsability, Licensing
News Article



Animism
Various
Wikipedia
Animism
Wikipedia Article



Pedra portuguesa em périplo pelo mundo
Ana Soromenho
Expresso
Design, Marble, Arquitecture, Materials, Inovation
News Article



Primeira Pedra, Home Page
Guta Moura Guedes
Primeira Pedra, ( experimentadesign )
Architecture, Art, Design, Project, Innovation, Marble,
Website