Thursday 28 February 2008
Friday 22 February 2008
Silvia Leal de Oliveira
Silvia is an arts practitioner living in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in cross-cultural identity, multidisciplinary & socio-political arts, within and beyond the gallery space. Also works as an arts educator to children and provides translation/ interpretation for the Arts industry between English and Portuguese. Brought up in London, attended Wimbledon School of Art and did her BA at Saint Martins. Prior to coming to Brazil was the curator of 3Dreid Gallery in London.
Thursday 21 February 2008
Wednesday 20 February 2008
Marcos Gallon
Curator at Galeria Vermelho (Red Gallery)
www.galeriavermelho.com.br
Curates annual Verbo Festival of performance
Thursday 14 February 2008
Edouard Fraipont
http://diversao.uol.com.br/album/edouard_fraipont_album.jhtm
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4592&Itemid=182
Edouard Fraipont, a visual arts practitioner and photographer from São Paulo who works with self portraiture and iconography. Recent research explores evocations of the supernatural in landscapes and transfiguring the body to create distorted photographic testimonies.
Camila Sposati
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0708/07080103
www.gasworks.org.uk/residencies/detail.php?id=315
Camila Sposati from São Paulo works across visual arts media including drawing, photography, film, video and sculpture. She is University College London chemistry department’s first artist in residence between August and October 2007 researching her project Entropy which extends her artistic practice research by engaging with crystals to create sculpture and illuminations. Camila’s residency was co-hosted by Gasworks, UK.
Monday 11 February 2008
Sunday 10 February 2008
Tuesday 5 February 2008
Rosario Caltabiano
www.rosariocaltabiano.com
Went to opening of Rosario's show. Was an exhibition of photographs of people's navels, accompanied by their date and city of birth. Viewers were also invited to enter a booth and have their belly buttons photographed.
Interesting talk of mothers, of umbilical cords, of splitting, of being human, of procreating.
Biba Rigo
Biba is an artist, making interventions into public space and provoking participation and collaboration from members of the public. She also runs a space in the Vila Madalena district of São Paolo, which is used one night as a cinema, then the next a discussion forum, then the next for an art opening. Also used as a 'space exchange' with other artists.
Monday 4 February 2008
Livraria Cultura
Fantastic, huge bookshop in São Paulo.
Within the Conjunto Nacional shopping centre, which is on the corner of Av. Paulista and Rua Augusta.
Fabiano Marques
Fabiano is a visual artist working in curatorial intervention, video and installation. He lives in Sao Paulo but has recently spent 6 months in the UK, supported by the Artists Links residencies.
We went to Fabiano's exhibition opening at the Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo. He was part of the PANORAMA DOS PANORAMAS show, which put together works from the permanent collection of the musuem. Fabiano's was a very interesting work. While walking around the show, one occasionally came across paintings covered by low-profile, slick, brown cardboard boxes. This was Fabiano's work and in an examination of the structures of museums, of curating, and of whom chooses which art is displayed, the curators chose different artwork each week that would be covered. Apparently, a woman had come to the opening to see a painting of her husband's that she had recently donated to MAM, and found that the painting was covered by Fabiano's cardboard cloak!
Felipe Moraes
My work is based upon a brazilian popular genre of writting called
'chronicle', it's a kind of 'short cuts' with a strong presence of
oral language.
'chronicle', it's a kind of 'short cuts' with a strong presence of
oral language.
Maurício Santos
We met Maurício in Sao Paolo, with his wife Cristina, a psychologist and their son, Chico.
I've always written poems and short stories, so by that time I decided to change my focus in theatre from music to text. My first play "Máscara Preta" was performed by the Grupo Griot in the fringe of the Curitiba International Theatre Festival, in 2002.
In 2004, I moved to London and then to Paris, where I studied literature in the Université de Paris VIII. In 2005 I moved back to São Paulo, where I finished (in 2006) my doctorate in French Literature, with a thesis on french writer, film maker and playwright Marguerite Duras and the role of music in her work. Since 2007, I'm working on a film project, with the support of the State of São Paulo, a documentary that investigates the body in the context of anorexia.
Today, I'm part of the artist collective As Rutes, which performs interventions in urban contexts, particularly in São Paulo, using techniques of clowns, storytelling and visual arts.
Finally, I write for www.futepoca.com.br - Futebol, Política e Cachaça (Football, Politics and Cachaca), a blog that won the prize of best brazilian sports blog in 2007! And we are now competing for the iBest prize in the same category.
Milena Durante
Milena is working with us as a translator.
She is an artist. See
www.eia05.zip.net
www.mapeia.blogspot.com
Túlio Tavares
Túlio is an artist and will be working with us as a photographer and translator.
"I know very well São Paulo São Paulo London
He lives in Vila Madalena area of São Paulo.
Objectiva
We visited the one near Iguatemi in Salvador
Decent, reasonably-priced digital prints and film processing and printing.
Also have picture frames (30x40cm) for R$25 (around £7)
Wilma Godoy Moreira
Wilma Gody Moreira translated for us during our project in Bahia. She is originally from Sao Paolo and has lived in Mar Grande on Ilha da Itaparica for 9 years. Works as an English teacher. Also teaches Portuguese. Great person to work with - lots of positive energy and will talk to anyone!
H Sabrina Gledhill
- Sabrina is a British national, born in Canada, raised in Puerto Rico and educated in the US and UK! She's lived in Salvador for over 20 years, bringing up her family here. She works as a researcher, translator, writer and lecturer, having translated over 20 books.
- Sabrina worked with us, accompanying us during our time in Bahia. She's writing a text about the work we did in Bahia, from a local perspective.
- She's available to assist with interesting, responsible, socially-engaged arts projects ...
Carolina Camara
Carolina works at MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia
http://www.mam.ba.gov.br/
Also an artist, studying Art in Salvador
Viga Gordilho
Visual artist, doctorate in Visual Arts, Viga explores the theory and prctice of Afro-indigenous source materials in Brazilian culture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vigagordilho/
Huge scale creative curatorial project bringing together small artefacts created by 730 artists from countries around the world.
http://www.pilula.com.br/afetos/
Sook Jin Jo
Sook Jin has a longstanding love of discarded, rotting wood, shaped by the elements and pulled together into stunningly beautiful sculptures.
www.sookjinjo.com
Sang-Taek Oh
Beautiful photographs.
www.artstudio.or.kr
A brief description of series “PROCESS” by Sang-Taek Oh
The principals engraved in my work lie in the modern society’s insatiable hunger for capitalism and material pursue of gain along with the isolation of humanism and the feeling of loss in the greater social system as a whole. However, longing for life in the midst of such chaos sheds the hypocritical aspects of humans.
The aspiration in the use of such subjects in my work is to substantiate the ways that modern people accept the given life circumstances and their desire for living. The title “PROCESS” symbolizes the embedment of reality in the life courses and its destined derivatives of idealization, and its direct and or indirect intuitive insight of human in regard to the nature.
Jon Taylor
Painter, Sculptor, Performer
Jon works with Dawn Stetzel. When we met them they were colonising a tree trunk and building miniature buildings, mines, gardens, walks, recycling centres within the nooks and crannies of the tree (which they found in the street and managed to get dragged into their studio).
They have a very interesting approach to modern living. Like nomads, they have an old school bus that they've adapted to running on oil discarded by restaurants. They find the things they need by rooting through skips and bins and then creatively adapting the objects. They carry ceramic mugs around with them to avoid using coffee shops' throwaway cups.
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue66§ion=article&article=AIR_ARTIST_JON_3153910
Dawn Stetzel
Sculptor who colonises objects, often discarded by others and transforms them into sculpture. Looking at nature and insect colonies as a model for human behaviours.
Dawn works with Jon Taylor. When we met them they were colonising a tree trunk and building miniature buildings, mines, gardens, walks, recycling centres within the nooks and crannies of the tree (which they found in the street and managed to get dragged into their studio).
They have a very interesting approach to modern living. Like nomads, they have an old school bus that they've adapted to running on oil discarded by restaurants. They find the things they need by rooting through skips and bins and then creatively adapting the objects. They carry ceramic mugs around with them to avoid using coffee shops' throwaway cups.
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/d/dawnstetzel/
Giovana Dantas
Sculptor working with flesh, skins, the uneaten parts, the bits left behind.
www.giovanadantas.com.br/
Augusto Albuquerque and Luis Oliveira
Augusto, Administrative Manager of Sacatar
www.sacatar.org
Luis, Administrative Assistant of Sacatar
www.sacatar.org
Roberta Mahfuz
Artist.
Currently working as Artists Links Manager for the British Council in São Paulo, Brazil
Friday 1 February 2008
Carol Maund
Director, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
www.sitegallery.org
Site Gallery is Sheffield's flagship international contemporary art centre. The gallery offers a changing exhibitions programme backed up with regular publications and a comprehensive calendar of conferences, artists talks and events. The gallery focuses on an international programme of newly commissioned work supported by the iLab, (a production facility for still and moving image-making), providing a base for international residencies and supporting artists at the beginning of their career.
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