Low Residency 2018 and the Creative block

English: In the midst of an intense creative block with the phrase "you need to try harder" bombarding my head, I found myself in the middle of the most intense, most important and most fun days of the course: Low Residency. 10 days in which all the students are invited to participate in a series…

2017/2018 Between Flights #5

English: I can only start this text with a very cliché comment: time always goes faster than I would like. December 2017: another journey involving documents, luggage, airports, homesickness, expectations, and luggage. Another brief visit to São Paulo - Brazil, my city full of contradictions, so loved and hated in the same intensity, that embraces…

(inspiration)

These are a series of works (or topics) that I came across these past 3 months... They can not relate to my work itself, but I believe we need to think and talk about them. FILE -  SÃO PAULO - 2017 (about the relationship between institution, curator text, and works of art) Thom Kubli (Germany) – Black Hole Horizon…

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…

Digital Bubbling?

English: In my days in São Paulo, I took the opportunity to see the eighteenth edition of FILE São Paulo 2017 (International Festival of Electronic Language). This is a festival known in the São Paulo art circuit, because of its price (free) and its location (in the middle of the Paulista Avenue). Its proposal is…

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…

Stillness and Movement

English: During the Low Residency period, we had the pleasure of talking with German artist and researcher living in London Sigune Hamann, who works primarily with photography and video. Her inspiration comes from different sources, and one of the main motivations in her work is in the interest of observing people and engaging in moments,…

Drifts about Political Art

English:  Can we classify art today? Force plural works within existing categories for the mental organization of critics and collectors? Specifically, in what refers to Political Art, today in the world situation in which we live can we really separate contemporary art into political x non-political? I know that the term `political` is given the…

Live Uncertainty

English:  In this is a brief and personal text is my perception of the 32nd Biennal of Art in São Paulo. Português:  Este é um texto breve e pessoal, a minha percepção da 32a Bienal de São Paulo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2AOTpzL97Y From September 7 to December 11 and 2016, the 32nd São Paulo Biennial was held in…

Lecture: Jo Love

English: The talk with the artist Dr. Johanna Love "Jo Love" was very inspiring. She was invited to speak about her research and practice (practice  base  research) based on her artwork. However, she ended up talking much more about perception changes, new ways to look at art, memory and time. It’s funny how some speakers…