Invisible Spaces - Pop Up Lisboa 2010

Invisible Spaces – Pop Up Lisboa 2010

http://www.popup-city.com/lisbon-2010/en/popup2010/

Pop Up Lisboa 2010 is dedicated to the theme Urban Nomads, from November 4th to December 11th this urban culture event will inhabit various Lisbon city spaces with artistic interventions from more than a hundred Portuguese and worldwide creators. Invisible Spaces was one of the 10 selected projects among 111 projects to happen on the 2010 edition.

The installation played with an autobiographic trajectory of immigration. A map was traced, connecting my first house in Lisbon, and passing through all the houses I have lived in until the point of reaching Lisbon again in 2010. The personal trajectory has being projected on the space, using string to connect the points on the map. The game suggests the installation as a metaphor, where every time you walk a trajectory, you change the space and the space is changed by your movement; so in every new trajectory, or, for every new string placed in the room, you need to deal with the net that is already built on the space. The body is not free anymore and responds to the frontiers created by the previous movements.

Inside the installation, there were fragments of other people’s trajectories as well. These were photo essays, house lists and consumption maps of people I have met during the 7 years documented on the installation.

D. I. Y - exhibition - exeter

Surface Arts, working in partnership with Book Cycle and EVA Studios present DIY, a site specific exhibition which liberates a derelict warehouse awaiting development on Water Lane near Exeter Quay side. DIY is a cross art form exhibition involving multiple disciplines on a huge scale. The work will range from sculpture to performance most involving interactive processes and participation.

The artists participating are working on site for a four week production period leading up to the exhibition which opens on 17th September and runs until 16th October. This provides an opportunity for the artists to work together and allows them to produce work that is truly responsive to the site.

This exhibition aims to question artist led activities within this time of financial instability and asks if this way of creating new independent opportunities is now becoming essential. All materials used in this exhibition will be sourced from the site; all artists will work on their own initiatives with limited funds.

ARTISTS:Adam Garrett, Chiara Gill, Hanna Downing, James Burgess, Jessica Mautner, Jo Willoughby, Julie McCalden, Mark Houghton, Megan Hoggins, Michele Louise Schiocchet and Sarah Farmer.

Dialogue with and on... a once home

video link: http://vimeo.com/14029192

Intertextual exercise based on a fragment of Georges Perec "Species of Spaces". Collaboration with Annalisa Foresta and Valentina Becca.

site specific / memorials - flowers and benches

Recently, I have been researching about everyday life and how arts can mediate the way we perform simple quotidian tasks, as well as the way we read our everyday life spaces. I have worked with video, photography and installation, having used newspaper or paper sculpture, in order to create interventions in everyday life spaces, documenting and reflecting on the way we inhabit and engage with these quotidian spaces.

pinhole photo by Patricia Oliveira and Giovana Loresatto

pinhole photo by Patricia Oliveira and Giovana Loresatto

pinhole photo by Patricia Oliveira and Giovana Loresatto

I have started the research on memorials for a consultation project promoted by Plan Projects and Cambridge City council. the work was based on an installation and creative mapping tour of the Mill road cemetery as part of a Public art Comission.

The work was also proposed as a small intervention that took place at the Away day (event promoted by POST artists). At the moment I am still experimenting and would like to repropose the installation indoors as well as outdoors.

 

Collaboration of Luiz Abreu, Caroline Nocetti, Ester Cairoli, Patricia Venancio Oliveira.

Arts trail, leytonstone, images from Caroline Nocetti