local worlds

Local worlds catalogue
Editing; Lúcia Marques & paula roush
Coordination: Jorge Rocha
Graphic design: Ricardo Milne
Texts: by the curators and artists

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Talk-workshop with artist Melanie Jackson, creator of the video Global Positioning System (which is being shown in Local Worlds exhibition), about her technique of video-animation and her way of working based on the news.

Presentation of LAC (July 28-30), the Laboratory of Creative Arts who developed Lagos’ former prison into an arts centre), and a debate about art in Algarve moderated by artist and academic Susana de Medeiros, and the contribution of Vera Gonçalves (visual arts), A. Espanca (cinema), Duval Pestana (theatre), amongst other.

Images from the workshop seminar SHARED WORLDS (July 25-27) about collaborative and participatory art, coordinated by artist Mónica de Miranda and the presentations of Tate Britain’s curator Paul Goodwin, artist Faisal Adbu’Allah and artist and Local Worlds co-curator Paula Roush. Participating artists and cultural producers included: Carmo Serpa, Eduarda Coutinho, Elizabete Brito, Filomena Machado, Henrique Pereira, Ines Amado, Isabel Lima, Joana Melo, Maria Alcobia, Monica Mayer, Pau Cat, Petra Farinha, Ricardo Menil, Catarina, Sofia Medeiros, Susana Medeiros, Vanda Vale, Alex, Pedro e Thomas.

In the Local Worls’s project July is the month for artists’ talks and workshops. The transversal programme includes the workshop seminar SHARED WORLDS (July 25-27) about collaborative and participatory art, coordinated by artist Mónica de Miranda and the participation of Tate Britain’s curator Paul Goodwin, artist Faisal Adbu’Allah and artist and Local Worlds co-curator Paula Roush.
SHARED WORLDS is preceded by Ricardo Valentim ‘s conference Growth and Culture Guest: (…) with anthropologist Rita D’Ávila Cachado (July 24), and followed by the presentation of LAC (July 28-30), the Laboratory of Creative Arts who developed Lagos’ former prison into an arts centre), and a debate about art in Algarve moderated by artist and academic Susana de Medeiros (July 29).
July ends with a talk-workshop with artist Melanie Jackson, creator of the video Global Positioning System (which is being shown in Local Worlds), about her technique of video-animation and her way of working based on the news (July 31).

Shared worlds : workshop-seminar about collaborative and participatory art
Coordinated by Mónica de Miranda (with Paula Roush, Faisal Abdu’Allah and Paul Goodwin)

In the Centro Cultural de Lagos
25, 26 and 27 of July (friday, saturday and sunday, 21:00-24:00
Free admission

As a follow-up to her participatory practice, artist Mónica de Miranda facilitates a three-day workshop together with artists Faisal Abdu’Allah and Paula Roush and theorist Paul Goodwin, to discuss the ways contemporary media art practice develops as a result of creative relationships. Moving away from the studio into networks of relations, artists’ works reveal a renewed interest for public spaces, urban geographies and personal encounters, raising a challenging question: how much of current practice is based on the art of relationships?

The workshop and seminar explore the concepts behind an art of collaboration and participation and the cultural interchange that happens in these encounters. Workshops create an opportunity for the sharing of working strategies, whilst the concluding seminar provides a historical and theoretical overview of relational art models.

The series is open to anyone interested in discussing collaborative, participatory art, with opportunities for participants to share their work. No previous experience is necessary.

Day 1- friday, July 25th , 21:00- 24:00
Live locations: travel, work, participation and collaboration in the work of Monica Miranda, Faisal Abdu’Allah and Paula Roush
In preparation for day 2 workshops, artists present their works, followed by informal conversations with the participants and Story Chain, a group exercise facilitated by Faisal Abdu’Allah.

Day 2- saturday, July 26th , 21:00- 24:00
Works in progress: live open workshops

Monica de Miranda- Tuning in: sound car performance, developed driving around the city with friends, whilst mixing live radio and broadcasting the sound and conversations into the street. Occasionally the car stops at chosen locations and the performance carries on with opportunities for the audience to take part.

Faisal Abdu’Allah- Live Salon: Artist and barber Faisal Abdullah sets up his very own drop-in barbershop. “Snipping and shaving while spinning yarns,” Faisal discusses art, life and haircutting with customers

Paula Roush- Photo Studio: ‘The possibility of identity per se by displaying that moment of suspense…’
Bi-annualy, Lagos holds a festival of the discoveries where people dress up as 15th and 16th century characters to re-enact historical episodes of the Portuguese empire. The ‘Discoveries Festival’ costumes collection - archived at the Centro Cultural de Lagos- is the departure point for a photographic project, exploring photography’s relationship with performance and masquerade.

Day 3- sunday, July 27th , 21:00- 24:00

Models of engagement: Researcher Paul Goodwin presents the theory behind an art of relationships, looking at the links between sociality and conceptual art practices, illustrated with paradigmatic case studies. Followed by informal discussion with the participants.

For further information please contact:
Jorge Rocha | E: jorgerocha.ccl@gmail.com | T: (+351) 93 9339647 | F: (+351) 282 770453

The children’s programme Viver o Verão has started and it is a series of guided tours and workshops specially designed by guest-artists-educators to accompany the exhibition Local Worlds.

Psychological Art Circus during the The Trail show at the Centro Cultural de Lagos

Photos by Pedro Noel da Luz

It´s ready to start today at 10pm

Local Worlds presents PERFORMANCE by PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS

THE TRAIL PERFORMANCE BY PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS
at Centro Cultural de Lagos
June 26th thursday at 22h Free entrance

CONVERSATION with PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS
at Centro Cultural de Lagos
June 27th friday at 22h Free entrance (in english)

The transversal programme of LOCAL WORLDS Project carries on with PSYCHOLOGICAL ART CIRCUS’s performance, entitled The TRAIL, at 22h in the Patio of the Centro Cultural de Lagos (Cultural Centre of Lagos). Followed by a conversation with the company friday the 27th at 22h.

THE TRAIL, June 26th thursday at 22h
PAC’s participation in “Mundos Locais” forms part of “The Trail” (2006-2008), a body of work inspired by the story behind and content of a technique for healing the self and others as revealed to and presented by Olive Pixley in the early 20th century. An half-hour core double act combining aerial skills and corporeal mime set to an original soundtrack has been developed through extensive engagements in London. When circumstances have allowed, as many as nine further performers have been drafted in to embody larger ensemble scenes. In April 2008, as artists-in-residence of the Roundhouse in Camden, PAC began practical experiments in “that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith”. Where this aesthetic theory as articulated by Coleridge was made in reference to the reader’s relationship to the art, for PAC it has become the willingness of its own artists to refrain from their natural incredulity at the premises of a non-fictional dramaturgy where the facts presented are fantastic, seemingly improbable and extremely confrontational. Whilst theatrical suspension of disbelief is more usually an unspoken quid pro quo between the observer and the observed, here the performers are explicitly agreeing to attempt a provisional withholding of their own mechanical responses and stereotypical judgements in exchange for the creative possibilities of the unknown.
”The Trail” is being created by Jack Opaean (England), Lina Jungergård (Sweden) and Andrea Meneses Guerrero (Colombia)

THE CONVERSATION, june 27th friday at 22h

Talk by the company director – Opaen – about the method of theoretical sampling from modernist thought, European history, arts of the body (mime, corporeal expression, aereal), fused with circus methodological approach as a technology of mobilism and allegory of cultural nomadism. After the two years’ extreme parody of the Anna O. itinerary , the company became focused upon the creation of visual narrative coloured by the Spiritual journey of Olive P.

About the Psychological Art Circus
The birth of Psychological Art Circus occurred on 22nd March 2004 in Area 10 Project Space, a former woodyard in Peckham, South East London. There began a process of precisely two years’ duration, utilizing as thematic device the “Private Theatre” case history of “Anna O”. An interdisciplinary troupe drawn from eight countries across three continents used elements of aerial, mime, voice and projection, fire, shadow, and object manipulation to create an evolving repertoire of acts variously choreographed for a range of sites, situations and contexts in England, France and Croatia. This debut itinerary included the 2004 Jeunes Talents Cirque at L’Academie Fratellini in Paris; the 2005 FAKI alternative theatre festival in Zagreb; and the 2006 launch of exhibition KISSS in London’s Whitechapel Gallery. PAC gained a local reputation for its unauthorized performance occupations including those of Arnold Circus, an East London bandstand built upon plague burial ground and in a derelict South London public house in St George’s Circus. The work led to Company incorporation, subsequent Arts Council England funding and, in April 2006, to a first South American invitation where a core troupe successfully played to audiences of over 2000 in Bogotá for the 4th Latin Convention of Circus.

Started already the exhibition guided tours programme.

Do not forget, all Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 10pm(Pt or EN) and 23pm (PT)