Inserções em Circuitos Ideológicos (Insertions into Ideological Circuits)

"Information (production, circulation and control) is at the source of the insertions. (...) The work was also linked to the bottles of castaways. Sometimes the business of throwing the bottle into the ocean brings about confusion. But if I threw it in the ocean I would be limiting the efficacy, the possible efficacy of the work to one person. My idea was precisely to use the extension of this total circulation of bottles, that circuit of permanent movement, in order to reach different people. The project messages normally grew out of information or news that had reached me, that people had shared with me, messages about people who had been arrested or who had not been found; at times, people I didn't even know."

(Cildo Meireles quoted in ildo Meireles, exh. cat., London, Tate Modern, 2008, p. 65).