Critical Evaluation and future development (Internal Dive)

English: I started this master's degree with the interest in developing my artistic practice and from this, I could start to build my voice within the context of contemporary art. In the first year of the course, I was still very involved with the end of my Brazilian MA, for which I wrote a dissertation…

Installation: Flood- Process# 3 (Ed Kelly’s Superpowers)

English: Finally, I reached the final stages of the preparations for the setting up of my video installation: 'Installation: Flood'. These final preparations were centered around 3 elements that I will describe in this post. THE PUMP One of the crucial points of this work was its adaptation of a performance into an autonomous installation.…

Video Installation: Flood- Process # 2 (Construction)

English: Before properly reporting my steps on this work, I would like to state here that after some experiments I realized that it did not make sense to project the image of the dam, or trees. My research turned out to be much more about building my voice as an artist and the little personal…

Documenting

English: I always enjoyed listening to stories, even though I was very shy as a young child. I was always curious and very interested in people and their narratives, even today one of my favorite things is listening to conversations on public transport, trying to imagine contexts and events. Maybe that's why I've carried on…

2017 Between Flights #4

English: It has been a while since I returned to European lands, but as the avalanche of sensations is a constant I feel that only now, after events and appointments, I am returning to reorganize my routine and thoughts. The period I spent in Brazil was brief and I was able to accomplish what I…

Tradução, 2017 (MA interim show)

English: After a few months of intensive theoretical and written dissertation research, almost as part of my process of rediscovery as an artist, I ventured to produce a new work to integrate our Interim Show. The challenge was not to work with video but to do some new work that was inspired by it. In…

Research Paper Tutorial #1 + Writing workshop

English: After the stressful months immersed in the process of the Brazilian dissertation, I am about to face another challenge, the much-feared Research Paper indispensable for the British Master's degree. Before I started and venture into research I have to admit that I did not see the time pass and when I opened my eyes…

On Writing

English: I feel that since I finished writing the dissertation an avalanche of new things began to happen as if everything was dammed, and finally, ideas and thought streams are now free to take me to other places. I am very happy with the beginning of these new processes, I feel being washed by the…

Leaking Art

English: At this moment I feel kind of strange writing words that are neither quotes nor referring to the theme Light in Art. From the moment I chose to venture into the MA and the London life, I knew that there would be a moment of finalization of my projects in Brazil, and the Mackenzie’s…

Tutorial #2

English: On April 20, I had my second tutoring with Jonathan. Our conversation happened in the middle of my dissertation writing process and it gave me some relief to be able to talk and think about other things and to remember that I was not abandoned or forgotten in a room buried under a mountain…