PROGRAMME SESSION #2
LENGTH | 56’26’’

NUNO LACERDA | Mapa Museu, 2014, 8’08’’
MACIEL SANTOS E JOÃO CRUZ | Ping Punk King Pong, 2015, 5’42’’
CINZA NUNES | REBENTARAM AS ÁGUAS, 2018, 5’31’’
FRANCISCA MANUEL |Avenida 211, 2018, 7’
LUCIANO SCHERER & MAÍRA FLORES | Sem título, 2018, 5’05’’
JOSÉ CARLOS TEIXEIRA | ON EXILE, elsewhere within here, 2018, 25’


Artistas e sinopses| Artists and synopsis


_NUNO LACERDA // Mapa Museu, 2014, 8’08’’

A fictitious architecture suspended in time and space, just like its inhabitants.

BIO
Born in 1983 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. Concluded in 2008 a license degree (pre-Bologna) in Fine Arts - Painting at the College of Fine Arts - University of Lisbon. Aside from his individual work, mostly in video, video-installation and illustration, he is involved in several collective projects in music and theatre.  


_ MACIEL SANTOS E JOÃO CRUZ // Ping Punk King Pong, 2015, 5’42’’

A stage, public, two players and a lot of action. All this in a short and exciting ping pong game that takes place in a theatre where the improbable becomes real and the game becomes something (im)possible. Ping Punk King Pong is the name of this video that makes serious questions about our beliefs but in a "comic" way.

BIO
Maciel (1982), lives and works in Sesimbra. He studied architecture at no ISCTE and obtained an undergraduate degree in Painting from the Faculdade de Belas-Artes of Lisbon University. He has participated in collective and individual exhibitions in Portugal and abroad. João Cruz was born in 1986. He has an undergraduate degree in Painting from the Faculdade de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon and participated in the course “Projeto Individual” (Individual Project) at AR.CO. His work moves freely from drawing to painting, installation, tapestry, street art and video.


_ CINZA NUNES // REBENTARAM AS ÁGUAS, 2018, 5’31’’

Beginning with the idea that there is no life without water as a departure point, this essay compiles all the shots from the Final Destination series that present liquids as a possible cause of death Images and Sound collected from the series of movies Final Destination. Selection and Editing by Cinza Nunes.

BIO
Cinza Nunes was born in 1988 in Faro, and currently studies Communication Design at the Lisbon Fine Arts School. She has been collaborating as a model/performer with the artist Raquel Melgue since 2008, and has designed posters for events by the cinema website À Pala de Walsh, and for Ricardo Vieira Lisboa's films since 2015. She has also had a solo exhibition titled THIS IS FOR Ü at Germinal Gallery in 2017, curated by Sabrina D. Marques, which included video, installation, drawing and collage. The film ü, created in that context, was selected for that year's edition of FUSO Anual de Video Arte Internacional de Lisboa.


_ FRANCISCA MANUEL (PT) // Avenida 211, 2018, 7’

Between 2006 and 2014, a building on Avenida da Liberdade in Lisbon was home to approximately fifty national and international artists, with a view to developing their artistic practices. During those years, a series of events took place, including concerts, improvisations, performances, workshops, classes and primarily collective and individual exhibitions. With the arrival of the Novo Banco bank, the Avenida space was sold for millions of euros, for the purpose of building a luxury condominium. Here the building itself is portrayed as a character, hosting some ghostly testimonials from artists that passed through there.
Direction, Image and Editing: Francisca Manuel | Sound: Tomás ven der Osten | Color Correction: Arena Filmes Based on the testimonials of the artists: André Guedes, Gonçalo Sena and Pedro Neves Marques


BIO
Francisca has a postgraduate degree in Multimedia Art from FBAUL. She attended the Architecture course from 2002 until 2005 and completed the course in Cinema and Fine Arts in 2008. She directed "A Coragem de Lassie" (Lassie ́s courage)(2009) about the artist Ana Jotta, and won the international Award for best documentary on art (New York Independent Film and Video Festival 2009). In 2011, she won the Inov-Art grant and worked with ethnographic documentary film in Brazil. In Amsterdam, she was the artist Fiona Tan ́s assistant for the exhibition Options & Futures, Rabo Kunstzone, Utrech, in 2013. She has directed several video installations: Madame (2013), FUSO Open call 14 - Anual de VideoArte Internacional de Lisboa; Desterro (2015), Arquiteturas Film Festival 15; Travel Shot (2015), LOOPS.LISBOA - Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado and Catherine or 1786 (2017), Arquipélago – Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Azores. Since 2007 she has authored and collaborated on audiovisual projects with artists, performers and architects.


_ LUCIANO SCHERER & MAÍRA FLORES // Sem título (5), 2018, 5’05’’

Sem título (Untitled) is a film which stems from a series of video performances - Filmes de Afogamento (Films of Drowning - Work in progress) - made in the last few years. During the initial showing of these pieces, Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian-Kurdish boy was found dead on Bodrum beach in Turkey in 2015, during an immigration attempt. The body of the child shocks us, as no one expects to see such a young child dead. Since then the bodies continue to arrive. New anti-immigration policies are a contemporary fact that is spreading throughout the continents, the result of a selective memory, which typically ignores its own history and cultural existence. The image of death, in Western culture, tends to be removed from our gaze when referring to one ́s neighbor, while at the same time it is trivialized when referring to the Other. It is essentially an image we don ́t want to see. We must return to the image of death, so that we can remember, and thereby reflect on existence and its conditions. Memento Mori, or remember that you will die. You and them.

BIO
Luciano Scherer (Brazil, 1987) is an artist and film director, who holds a Doctorate in Cinema from the Universidade de Lisboa. His film debut was in 2015 with the film Ruby, as director, producer, actor and art director, and for which he was responsible for the editing. Ruby received 13 awards in the last few years, including the Crítica, Público e Revelação (Critic, Public and Revelation) from the Festival Luso- Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira (Portugal, 2015) and Best Film at the Mostra do Filme Livre (Brazil, 2016). Luciano has also had individual and collective exhibitions with his installation work, paintings and objects. Maíra Flores (Brazil, 1990) is an artist and film director. She has shown individually at Fundação Ecarta (2015) and at Galeria Península (2015), in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as well as collectively in other states. Her work crosses over between objects, installation and video. Maíra is currently developing her first fiction film with Luciano Scherer, to be released in 2019.


_ JOSÉ CARLOS TEIXEIRA // ON EXILE, elsewhere within here, 2018 - 25'

At the crossroads between documentary cinema, art and anthropology, “ON EXILE, elsewhere within here”, investigates the concepts of migration, dislocation and alterity. Through interviews with refugees from Muslim communities from the Middle East and North Africa, exiled in the United States, this experimental film constructs intimate psychological portraits, inserting them into a specific historical and political context. Aesthetically and ethically committed to the ethnographic encounter and to the delicate questions of representation and the Other, the author attempts to listen to and inscribe the voices of the refugees, in opposition to a dominant discourse that denies them agency or their own existence. ON EXILE invites us then, to a lingering reflection and time, to a necessary process of empathy and intersubjectivity – “to return the Other to us or return us to the Other” (J. Pinharanda).
*This is a 70-minute abridged version of the original. 

BIO
José Carlos Teixeira (Porto, 1977), is a visual artist and researcher. He obtained his Masters at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Fulbright scholar, and his undergraduate at FBAUP. Of his recent individual exhibitions, some highlights are the ones at MAAT and at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. He has shown his work internationally at institutions such as the Hammer Museum, LACE (Los Angeles), Museum of the City of New York (NY), MOCA, Spaces (Cleveland), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), DAZ (Berlin), and many others. His films have been shown at festivals such as Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Currents New Media Festival, LA Freewaves and Athens International Film and Video Festival. In 2005, he was nominated for the EDP New Artists Award, and won the Jury Award at the FUSO Festival in 2011. He was an artist in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), the MacDowell Colony and the Headlands Center for the Arts and is currently on the faculty at UW-Madison (USA).


Bio Curator 
MARTA MESTRE
Marta Mestre Mestre (b. 1980. Portugal) lives and works in São Paulo and Lisbon. Since 2005, Marta Mestre has worked as a curator, editor, critic and teacher. A History of Art graduate with a Master’s degree in Culture and Communication, she was curator at the Inhotim Institute, Minas Gerais (2016-2017), assistant curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (2010-2015), guest curator at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (2016) curator at the Sines Arts Centre (2005-2008). In Portugal, she collaborates with the publishing company ‘Imago’ and the digital platform ‘Buala’. She has organized various projects, both individually and collectively, primarily in public institutions, with an emphasis on research into ‘counter-narratives’ and artists’ archives. She has been awarded the following prizes, among others: ‘Laborato´rio Curatorial/SPArte, São Paulo 2012’ and ‘Travel Grant Awards/ CIMAM 2014’. She regularly writes essays for institutions and museums and participates in visual arts award juries.