Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

At Location One , Luis Nobre’s residency is supported by dgArtes,Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon www.dgartes.pt, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

Online: http://www.luisnobre.net/

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Events & Exhibitions

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre
May 21, 2008

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, 1973 where he currently lives and Works. Studied Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). Has exhibit nationally and internationally since 2002.

Solo Exhibitions:
Supreme Levels (Niveles Soberanos) , Valenzuela y Klenner Gallery, Bogotá (2002); The terms of the game (Los Términos del Juego) , French Alliance, Bogotá (2006); Foundation (Cimiento) ,University of Salamanca`s Cultural Centre, Bogotá (2007); Magic Seeds (Semillas Mágicas) , Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico (2008); Paper can take anything (El papel aguanta todo) , Nueveochenta Gallery, Bogotá (2008); Attraction , Faria-Fabregas Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela (2009).

Group Exhibitions:
Philagrafika , Philadelphia (2010), Valparaíso:Interventions , Valparaíso Chile (2010), 2nd Trienale Poligráfic of San Juan , Puerto Rico (2009); Everything has a name, or the potencial to be named , Gasworks, London (2009), Other Floras , Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo (2008); Five Contemporary Artists in the Encounter House , (Encouenter in Medellín,Colombia MDE07, (2007); The intricate journey , NGBK, Berlín, (2007); IX Bienal of Bogotá (2006): 40th National Salon of Artists, Bogotá, (2006); XI Regionale Salón de Artistas , Tunja, Colombia (2005); Relacional, Santa Fe Gallery, Bogotá (2005). First Price, VI Bienale of Venecia in Bogotá (2003), Kennedy City Project, Bogotá (2003), Memory and reality (Colective project of artistic creation , National University of Colombia), Bogotá (200-)
At present many of Miler Lagos`s works are a part of important art collections in Colombia , such as : Republic Bank of Colombia , (Banco de La Republica), Museum of Antioquia (Museo de Antioquia),Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation (Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño) and worldwide art collections such as : Rubell Family Collection , Ella Fontanals Cisneros Foundation and National Collection of The Puertorrican Culture Institute (Colección Nacional Del Instituto De Cultura Puertorriqueña).

André Feliciano (Brazil)
Brazilian Cultural Office and Location One International Committee

André Feliciano considers himself an art gardener. His utopian view of the world can be better understood by his concept of “Floraissance Art,” which mixes the words “flora” and “renaissance” and calls for a postmodern return to arcadia. Feliciano uses words like sprouting, cultivating, and gardening in his artistic practice. His colorful, artificial garden made out of resin-based flowers and dirt is majestically beautiful and leads us to an inner state of calm and contentment. Why not extend these feelings to our present condition so that we can start building a better future?

Feliciano, born in 1984, in São Paulo (Brazil), has exhibited at Photoville (New York, 2012), Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2010), among other venues. His work has been featured in the New York Times online, Time magazine’s photography blog, and the blog of the International Center of Photography. He is part of the upcoming exhibition Festival of Art and Gastronomy at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (November 2012). More information can be found at his blog, blog.natureza.art.br.

Feliciano’s Residency is made possible by Location One’s International Committee and by the Brazilian Cultural Office.

Artists 2011-2012

Pablo Helguera (Mexico)
Location One International Committee

Born in Mexico City, 1971. Lives and works in New York

Pablo Helguera (based in New York, born in Mexico City, 1971) works in the fields of pedagogy, literature, musical composition, and theater. His projects have included performance lectures, scripted symposia, and panel discussions (with or without the knowledge of the audience) as well as a variety of experimental formats of verbal presentation.

Helguera’s works have been presented in many venues including the Liverpool Biennial, Performa 05, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, ICA in Boston, MoMA, and many others. His play, The Juvenal Players, produced by Grand Arts in Kansas City, was presented at The Kitchen in 2010. His orchestral work Endingness was performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. He is the author of more than 10 books including Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures), a collection of performative works. His social practice project, The School of Panamerican Unrest (2006), consisted of the creation of a nomadic schoolhouse that traveled by land throughout the Americas from Alaska to Chile, presenting collaborative performance and civic events in over 26 cities. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Grant; and in 2011 was named the first winner of the International Award for Participatory Art of the Regione Emilia Romagna in Italy. As an educator, Helguera has worked in museums for over two decades and currently works as Director of Adult and Academic Programs at The Museum of Modern Art. He is the Pedagogical Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, opening in September 2011.

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen (Denmark)
Danish Arts Agency

Born in Copenhagen, 1975. Lives and works in London.

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s sculptures pose as fictive relics; the possible artifacts of a future archaeology unearthing the ethnological debris of today. Influenced by early 20th century Modernism, Jurgensen often quotes from art history by intertwining recognizable forms and ideologies with fragments of popular culture to create ritualistic monuments divining a contemporary spirituality. His Folly, The Mystical’s Sphere, nods to the futuristic architecture of Tatlin and Fuller; the sparse copper structure standing as a theatrical oracle, emanating a primitive occultism from the power of low-watt light bulbs.
website: http://www.jacob-dahl-jurgensen.com/

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s residency is made possible by The Danish Arts Agency.

Maria José Arjona (Colombia)
Location One International Committee

Born in Bogotà, Colombia in 1973. She lives and works in New York
Ms. Arjona graduated from The Higher Academy Of Art Of Bogota (ASAB) in 2000 and her practice is exclusively focused on long duration performance.

She has been part of numerous exhibitions in different museums, galleries, and instituions in South America, The United States, Europe and China. Her work is a permanent part of many relevant collections around world.

Hiraku Suzuki (Japan)
Asian Cultural Council

Born in Miyagi, Japan, 1978. Lives and works in Tokyo.

Hiraku Suzuki obtained an MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Focusing on ideas of memory and excavation, his work centers on an expanded notion of drawing which encompasses works on paper and panels, installation, murals, frottages, and live performance drawing. Much of his work hinges on the vast library of signs and glyphs he has developed by focusing on the shapes, forms, rhythms, and materials of his immediate environment (which can be understood as the base units of the ever-changing hidden language of the city).

His recent solo exhibitions include WIMBLEDON space, London (2011); Galerie du JourAgnes b., Paris (2010); and Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2010); 100 stories of love, The21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2009); Between site and space, ARTSPACE, Sydney (2009); Redbull House of Art, Hotel Central, Sao Paulo (2009); and Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2009). His early works are held in the collection of The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

Publications include GENGA, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha/Agnes b., and Looking For Minerals, published by BEAMS.
http://www.wordpublic.com/hiraku

Mr. Suzuki’s residency is made possible by The Asian Cultural Council

Michaela Müller
Location One International Committee

Born in St.Gallen, Switzerland. She lives and works in Switzerland and in Zagreb, Croatia.
Michaela is in love with paint and film, and through the process of animation she has found a perfect means of combination. She is currently researching and exploring the borders between narrative and abstract experimental film, based on rhythm and choreography via animation.
She likes to work on social topics of public concern. Her 8 minute animation, “Miramare” (2009), (paint on glass), is an impressive encounter between tourists and immigrants shown from a children’s perspective. It has been shown at more than 70 film festivals all over the world including Cannes, Annecy, London, Melbourne, Sarajevo, Rio de Janeiro and St. Petersburg. “Miramare” won more than 15 awards includion the Swiss Film Prize Quartz, the Centaur for Best Debut Film at Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, the Grand Prix at Animateka Film Festival, Ljubljana etc.
Michaela studied animated film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Miramare is her diploma film. She likes to collaborate on theatre and dance projects, where she contributes animated scenographic elements.
Michaela Müller’s residency is made possible by Pierre Nussbaumer and the Location One International Committee.
website: www.triboje.com

Na Yingyu (China)
Lijiang Studio
Location One International Committee

Na Yingyu is a Chinese artist, born in 1973 in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, he lives and works in Beijing. Na Yingyu has exhibited extensively in China, Brazil and Israel. Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That will be Na Yingyu’s first solo show in the United States.

Na Yingyu’s residency made possible by Location One’s International Committee and Lijiang Studio, Lashihai, China.

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos (Mexico)
Location One International Committee

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos Brown was born in Mexico, where she studied dance, theater and art history. There she began to dance professionally and also to experiment with choreography. In 1994 she moved first to Boston and then to New York to achieve a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Dance major) at the Boston Conservatory and in Mary Mount Manhattan College. Around that time she danced with the Stanley Love Performance Group and with Anime Dance Japan, at the same time showing her own work in venues around the city of New York.

In 2000 she moved back to Mexico City where she was assigned as the director of the students company of the university Instituto Politécnico Nacional where she did several choreography and toured in all the campuses of this important public Nacional University. She also began her own company called Mitrovica Dance. Since the moment of its creation, Chirino´s Dance Company has performed in museums, schools and theaters. Her pieces, like the Faith Line, Restaurant Tesuyo, Tangled, Familiar Environment, Second Life and Ritual de lo Habitual have made the company to be named the Best Artistic Project of the City, an annual price voted by the people. In 2009 she won the first prize in the prestigious Mexican Contemporary Dance Award with the piece Tangled, for its originality and its use of space. This price is issued by the INBA, the Institute National of Bellas Artes, a pivotal institution in Mexican culture.

In March of 2011, she presented and installation called Hotel Irina, with more than 15 dancers, sponsored by Universidad National Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). The company also tour in museums with the last project called Corridor Shadows Exterior Evening. In May 2011 Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos move back to New York City.

Tommy Støckel (Denmark)
Danish Arts Council

Born in 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Tommy Støckel uses computer-generated calculations to create elaborate and intricate sculptural installations that resemble fractal-like architecture. Geometry, scale and perspective are essentials in the work of Tommy Støckel. His fascination of cool modernism and science fictions novels from both the 19th and 20th centuries is reflected in collages and installations that represent a constructed future seen in miniature worlds and deserted sci-fi landscapes. With a precise mathematic technique Støckel creates collages using figures cut out from catalogues and sculptures showing different layers and the inevitable decay of time. The use of materials as paper, cardboard and foam contrasts the sophisticated themes as deconstruction and chaos theory.

Monica Baptista (Portugal)
Gulbenkian Foundation

Born in S. Paio de Oleiros, Portugal, 1984. Lives and works in Portugal.

Monica Baptista is a painter-turned-documentary filmmaker who has created several films on topics ranging from Chechnyan soldiers on the TransSiberian Express, to tracts on herbal tea, to experimental investigations of architectural structures. Present in all of her work is a focus on the perception of space and time in relation to the particular community or subject matter of her films.

Monica Baptista’s residency is made possible by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Foundation

Agnieszka Kurant (Poland)
Polish Cultural Institute
Trust for Mutual Understanding

Born in Łodz, 1978. Lives and works in Warsaw.

Agnieszka Kurant is an artist based in Warsaw. She represented Poland at the Polish Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2010 (collaboration with the architect Aleksandra Wasilkowska). She is interested in the ways in which trying to interpret the world logically results in a fictional version of reality. Her works explore how things created as fictions, rumors, paranormal phenomena as well as objects not existing materially, enter into economy and politics of contemporary world. She is interested in virtual capital, imaginary property, immaterial labour, hybrid authorship, changes of aura, value and status of objects in cognitive capitalism. Many of her works are related to the existence of the future in the present. Her works have been shown in art institutions including: Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2004); Tate Modern, London (2006); Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (2005) and Museum of Modern Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Kurant has participated in international contemporary art exhibitions including: Performa Biennial, New York (2009), Athens Biennale (2009), Moscow Biennale (2007) and Bucharest Biennale (2008). In 2008 she was commissioned to realize Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair, London. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the International Henkel Art Award (MUMOK, Vienna). Kurant was an artist in residence at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2004; ISCP, New York in 2005; Konstfak, Stockholm in 2007 and at the Paul Klee Center (Sommerakademie) in Bern, 2009. Sternberg Press published Kurant’s monograph “Unknown Unknown” in 2008 and the Venice Biennale catalogue “Emergency Exit” in 2010. Her solo show is currently on view at Montehermoso Cultural Center in Spain.

Agnieszka Kurant’s residency is presented in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York within its Poland-U.S. Artists-In-Residence Exchange Program, organized by a-i-r laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland and Location One in New York, with generous support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Ana Freitas Machado (Brazil)
Location One International Committee

Ana Freitas Machado is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Many of her works are the result of a conceptual and visual theme. Time, geometry, nature and morphology of the creative process are part of its research universe in different media such as drawing, photography, artist book, printmaking and sculpture.

Atsushi Kaga (Ireland)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1978. Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.

Atsushi Kaga’s work depicts a fictional world inhabited by a cast of invented characters. Through his alternative reality, Kaga explores personal and cultural identity, as well as complex social issues faced in daily life. His mixed media work, which includes paintings, animations and wall drawings, attest to his keen sensibility and sense of intimacy. His work is whimsical and playful but with a dark and biting sense of humor underlying deceptively ‘kawaii’ imagery. website: http://www.atsushikaga.com/

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Atsushi Kaga’s residency is made possible by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

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David Molander (Sweden)
Hasselblad Foundation

Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1983.

In the project An Urban Anatomy visual artist David Molander is in pursuit of the essence of the urban centers. By the use of digital photography and animation, he collects a documentary material of hundreds of photos and film clips that he dissects and reconstruct into large still- or moving images that can be placed between document and fiction. He cut open interiors, sample streetlights, stitch together pavement and gather parts of the city that although closely linked, seldom meet. Molanders work put emphasis on new relationships between architecture, social environment, living memory and the humans within it. David Molander has been studying photography and film at Harvard University and has a BA in Rhetoric and a BA in Art history from Uppsala University. He graduated 2010 with a MFA from School of Photography in Gothenburg/Sweden. Website: http://www.davidmolander.com

David Molander’s residency is made possible by The Hasselblad Foundation

Openig Sunday 1 february 2009 11 am
Museo Sant’Ildefonso
Mexico City, Mexico

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Openig Sunday 1 february 2009 11 am
Museo Sant’Ildefonso
Mexico City, Mexico

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A lyrical, textual composition, Voiceover is based on Collazo-Llorens’ research of the archives and oral histories section of PRdream.com, a web site on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and its diaspora.  Fragments from these oral histories are combined with texts from public spaces, literature, the media, as well as the artist’s own writings. The projected words become transmitted signals, simultaneously truncated and expanded, pointing to multiple narrators while triggering viewers to connect to their own experience. The ephemeral quality of the projected light and the fleeting texts suggests the fragility and transient nature of memory and story telling.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Nayda Collazo-Llorens was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a visual artist based in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received an MFA from New York University in 2002 and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1990. She works in various media, including works on paper and canvas, video, and installations, exploring the way in which the mind processes information.
Recent individual exhibitions include Route/Journal at LMAKprojects (Williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY, 2007; Navigable Zones at Project 4, Washington DC, 2007; Mindscapes at Space Other, Boston, 2006; Roaming, CSV Cultural Center, NYC, 2006; and Configuraciones, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR, 2005. Notable group shows include the IX International Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, 2007; 12th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 2007; None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2004, and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 2005; and Here & There: Six Artists from San Juan, at El Museo del Barrio, NY, 2001 and Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, 2002. She was an Artist in Residence at Location One, New York, NY, 2004-05, and a 2006 Grant recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News and NY Arts, among others. More information on the artist’s work can be found at www.naydacollazollorens.com.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens appears courtesy of LMAKprojects, New York.

Other upcoming shows:

Beyond a Memorable Fancy
Print, Perception and the Artist’s Intervention
Curated by Michelle Levy
October 30 – December 13 2008
Opening Reception, November 1, 6-9
Artists: Glen Baldridge, Robert Buck, Benjamin Cohen, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Ian Cooper, Jenelle Covino, Alex Dodge, Rachel Foullon, David Gatten, Dylan Gauthier, Graffiti Research Lab, Lynne Harlow, Adam Helms, Wennie Huang, Matthew Day Jackson, Heidi Neilson, Evan Roth, Jennifer Schmidt, Peter Simensky, Mary Temple, and Stephan von Muehlen.
EFA Project Space, 323 W 39th Street, New York, NY
212-563-5855, projectspace@efa1.org
Gallery hours: 12-6, Wed- Sat

Ellipsis
A public intervention piece viewable after dusk
Oct 30 – Dec 5 2008
Ellipsis consists of a video projection onto Future Tenant’s storefront window in downtown PIttsburgh. A constant flow of text interweaves the narrative of a personal journey with specific references to air travel, weather conditions, technological data, and current news headlines. The work invites the viewers to reflect on the complexities of the mind, language and the fragmented manner in which we perceive and process information.
Future Tenant, 819 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

10th Havana Biennial
Integration and Resistance in the Global Age
27 March – 30 April 2009
Havana, Cuba
The 10th Havana Biennial will gather artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Other current shows:

En sus marcas…
Contemporary Puerto Rican Painting
Curated by Rebeca Noriega
Oct 2 – Dec 12 2008
Sala de las Artes, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR
Organizador: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Artistas: Osvaldo Budet, Nayda Collazo Llorens, Fernando Colón, Karla Cott, Rabindranat Díaz, Radamés Figueroa, Ivelisse Jiménez, José Lerma, Michael Linares, Miguel Luciano, Héctor Madera, Sofía Maldonado, Melvin Martínez, Javier Martínez, Roberto Márquez, Nora Maité Nieves, Fernando Paes, Enoc Pérez, Fernando Pintado, Isabel Ramírez, Gamaliel Rodríguez, José Jorge Román, Chemi Rosado, Aarón Salabarrías, Miguel Trelles, Frances Gallardo, Nathan Budoff y Eric Schroeder.

La curadora define el proyecto con estas palabras, “Ésta exposición pone de manifiesto algunas características de la nueva pintura realizada por artistas emergentes en Puerto Rico durante las últimas dos décadas”. Continúa explicando y añade “…es una muestra que reconoce la vigencia y la renovación del medio pictórico desde lo técnico hasta lo conceptual”.

nayda collazo-llorens

http://www.naydacollazollorens.com

We are pleased to present new work by Luis Nobre (Portugal) and by Eric Siu (Hong Kong), who have participated in Location One’s International Residency Program this year.

Eric Siu
Optical Handlers – eeyee, 2008

Optical Handlers – eeyee is a new interactive media project that consists of an optical goggle device constructed by the artist, which splits the vision into four channels. On May 11th the artist walked with the goggles from Location One to Union Square via Broadway by foot and subway, doing various mundane activities such as stopping into shops and having coffee. He was accompanied by a friend who was responsible for his safety and introduced him to people who want to interact with him.

The exhibition consists of a video of the street performance, a video of Eric’s vision through the goggles (namely four POV’s), a full goggle set up for use by one visitor at a time, and four little screens that allow the rest of the public to view what that person is experiencing. On display are also the Alien “eeyee” suit that Eric was wearing, as well as the Master suit worn by the friend. Both suits are meant to allow the public to “see through” him.

The artist will be available to demonstrate the workings of eeyee from 4 to 6pm when the exhibition is open.

Eric received a diploma in digital media studies at IVE in 2001 followed by a B.A. at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong in 2005. In 2005, he made his first trip abroad when he received an honorable mention at the Media Art Biennial in Poland for his eight-minute work Sliding Whites, becoming the first Hong Kong artist to win recognition at this prestigious event.

Eric’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Online: www.ericsiuart.com

Luis Nobre
Hold It! 2008

Hold It! is an installation that creates a fantastical, sometimes hallucinatory vision of nature, the city and the artist’s studio. Visual play is generated by overlapping layers of drawings, ephemeral sculptures made of paper and cardboard, light wire objects, all constructed by Nobre in-situ. For the first time the artist also incorporates video into his work, with footage taken on the Williamsburg bridge, in Greenpoint, and in his native Portugal.

The coming together of all these elements whose scale, medium and density are so disparate, creates a vibration, a tension of line and meaning that feed the artist’s ongoing exploration of nature, survival and the “implications of the empty space” between the originally observed subject and its displayed rendition.
Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

Online: www.luisnobre.net

Luis Nobre’s residency at Location One is supported by dgArtes, Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

At Location One , Luis Nobre’s residency is supported by dgArtes,Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon www.dgartes.pt, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

Online: http://www.luisnobre.net/

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Events & Exhibitions

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre
May 21, 2008

June 2nd – July 28th, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 5-7 pm
Exhibition open through Saturday July 28th (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

Location One presents the second IRP group show of the 2006-2007 season, featuring new work developed by our resident artists. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.

Jeanette Doyle (Ireland) – St. Patrick’s Day NY 2006-07

This triptych work addresses Doyle’s ongoing interest in the St. Patrick’s Day parade and how an event of this nature can segue into militarism. Framed against the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the video displayed in the central television features the parade in 2007 as it draws to an end. On the adjacent TVs, the artist has painted the image of a policeman that she photographed as he stuck out his tongue at the 2006 parade. A DVD of a solid color plays behind each painted television, green on one side and blue on the other. This new work reinforces the notion of the rendering of the self into spectacle, the Disney-fication and remote construction of National identity.

Jeanette’s residency at Location One is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish American Cultural Institute.

Cliff Evans (USA) – Bare life: Booth Girl*s and Stormtroopers: Accumulation

A multi-channel photomontage animation that is presented as an object similar to an altar piece or a product display. It is constructed from an LCD screen and personal media players. It functions as a machine to contain, decipher and display images gathered from online sources. It situates itself within a soft-fascism, producing a baroque spectacle that unfolds and repeats. It, perhaps, is a clockwork meant to tell the time in an age of tech-fetish and availability at a glance.

Cliff’s residency at Location One is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Krist Gruijthuijsen (The Netherlands) – Alan (a memoir)

In Gruijthuijsen’s body of work, the in-depth investigation of personas such as Alan Abel’s underscores the artist’s interest in the relation between construction of myth, its process, and the fluctuating role of the contemporary artist. In this film, slow environmental shots of Abel’s current surroundings support the voice of the 82-year-old protagonist as he reads a letter that he wrote at age 16 describing his life so far and his future goals. This narration is followed by the reading of his obituary, recalling Abel’s last fictional action, when he placed his obituary in the New York Times. Abel’s extraordinary career consisted of “invisible actions” –such as Omer’s School for Beggars (talk shows on how to beg effectively), or mounting a decency campaign for animal underwear– that question the power of media, but also owe their existence to media.

Krist’s residency at Location One is supported by Fonds BKVB.

Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan) – Between

Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu uses mechanical elements as a creative medium, building technically complex and conceptually sophisticated machines. Their motions, which stimulate memories and emotions, are activated by the audience; it is the audience which makes the works complete. In this new body of work, the artist incorporates sound as a means to extend the language of his work.

Ruey-Hsiaan’s residency at Location One is supported by the Yageo Tech Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council).

SoYoun Jeong (Korea) – Natural Strawberry Flavor

This multiple media installation addresses the cute factor phenomenon that is ubiquitous in Korean culture, but also in the rest of the world. The title is derived from feelings of cuteness that can be experienced in the presence of a Korean female of extreme youth, vulnerability and cuteness as she sings cues from the “I like you, I love you ” melody in the video. However, cuteness and its appealing attributes are simultaneously paired off with a sense of cheapness, manipulation and exploitation. For SoYoun the specter of cuteness haunts the world, to such an extent that “it tastes like the artificiality of natural strawberry flavor. Thus it is natural for me to catch the ghost.”

SoYoun’s residency at Location One is supported by The Daeyu Cultural Foundation.

Miguel Palma (Portugal) – Deep Breath

This installation consists of a scale model of a city constructed on top of a platform/work bench. A dark nylon fabric encloses the city, thus making it impossible for the city to be seen from the outside. Three fans installed at the base of the device blow air into the fabric. Attached to the fabric is a micro camera that rises when the fans are activated. The images shot by the camera offer an aerial view of the cityscape and are projected onto a nearby wall. Every 70 seconds the fans are deactivated, the fabric falls, as does the camera attached to it. The image of this rising and falling process recalls a lung membrane under the scrutiny of a scan or an x-ray. The title of the work reflects this analogy.

Miguel’s residency at Location One is supported by Instituto das Artes and Fundação Ilídio Pinho.

Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand) – English Lesson (Something We Learn From One Another)

This video project is inspired by stories from Bundith’s classmates during English classes taken in New York. Bundith recontextualizes elements deriving from diverse nationalities, religious, and cultural points of view in a new “textbook” format of English Language Lessons that have little to do with the more traditional English textbooks. Bundith describes this piece as a collaboration between himself, a few classmates and their English teacher, Ms. A. Smith. It combines stories in which proverbs, idioms, and certain aspects of American culture are employed, as well as personal memories, pregnant thoughts and our hopes for the future. Based on real life stories, this innovative textbook constitutes the basis for conversation and pronunciation.

Bundith’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Jani Ruscica (Finland) – Futurama

The video, Futurama, takes as its focus the New York State pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair. The building, a nonfunctional relic from the past, still stands on its site in Queens as testimony of failed utopias. The Pavilion, designed by architect Philip Johnson, was meant to epitomize all the bright promise of the future, as well as fulfill locally a social function beyond the duration of the fair. Ruscica’s video juxtaposes the ambiguity of the structure in its current state to a soundtrack of original newsreel reports from the 1964 Fair. The circular structure of the pavilion is paralleled to the circular nature of fairground attractions, theateramas, dioramas, futuramas.

Jani’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).

Eric Van Hove (Belgium) – Ecumenopolis

Van Hove’s non-linear digital installation consists of some 2000 randomly selected video sequences of 5 to 20 seconds played from a database and generating a hypnotic narrative bound to déjà-vu. The impulse to recompose a fictive city from footage collected by the artist in 45 cities worldwide harks back to the original idea of Ecumenopolis as a single city that is continuous worldwide. This piece also brings forth Van Hove’s interest in the writings of Yanagita Kunio, the father of Japanese native ethnology, and his analysis on how earlier and essential layers of national life –custom, practice, and belief– are able to filter through the modern overlays and provide a map for the present. While reflecting on modern digital possibilities, Ecumenopolis, a still life of a sort, relates to other films’ attempt to envision the soul of a city, such as Jean Vigo’s A propos de Nice, and Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin, symphony of a great city.

Eric’s residency at Location One is supported by Service culturel, Commissariat general aux relations internationales de la Communauté française de Belgique.
Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. The International Residency Program is a central part of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world, and working in different media, to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work.

The Asian Cultural Council (US)
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (US)
The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation (US)
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA,(US)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (US)
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Bergen Kommune (Norway)
CulturesFrance (France)
Ville de Paris (France)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
Arts Victoria (Australia)
Associazione Artegiovane, Milan
Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation)
Comune di Milano
Délégation générale du Québec à New York
J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US)
Det Danske Kultur Institut, Denmark
Denmark Statens Kunstfond (Denmark, NEA)
Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
The FondiAnima (Italy)
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
The Danish Arts Agency
INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales) (Spain)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
Luso-American Development Foundation
James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council (Scotland)
The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
The Mondriaan Foundation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”
a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
The New Media Arts Board-Australia Council(The Netherlands)
The Polish Cultural Institute
Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany)
Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen
The Consulate General of Germany, New York
The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan)
Agency for Cultural Affiars (BUNKA-CHO), (Japan)
Instituto das Artes-IA, (Portugal)
Fundação Elídio Pinho, (Portugal)
Direcçâo-Geral Das Artes (Portugal)
Communauté Française de Belgique, (Belgium)
The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, (Korea)

click here for Location One main sponsor list

The Asian Cultural Council (US)
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (US)
The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation (US)
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA,(US)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (US)
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Bergen Kommune (Norway)
CulturesFrance (France)
Ville de Paris (France)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
Arts Victoria (Australia)
Associazione Artegiovane, Milan
Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation)
Comune di Milano
Délégation générale du Québec à New York
J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US)
Det Danske Kultur Institut, Denmark
Denmark Statens Kunstfond (Denmark, NEA)
Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
The FondiAnima (Italy)
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
The Danish Arts Agency
INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales) (Spain)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
Luso-American Development Foundation
James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council (Scotland)
The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
The Mondriaan Foundation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”
a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
The New Media Arts Board-Australia Council(The Netherlands)
The Polish Cultural Institute
Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany)
Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen
The Consulate General of Germany, New York
The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan)
Agency for Cultural Affiars (BUNKA-CHO), (Japan)
Instituto das Artes-IA, (Portugal)
Fundação Elídio Pinho, (Portugal)
Direcçâo-Geral Das Artes (Portugal)
Communauté Française de Belgique, (Belgium)
The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, (Korea)

click here for Location One main sponsor list

Location One programs are supported, in part, by public funds from:

Major general operating and program support is provided by foundations, corporations, and foreign cultural institutions including:

The Abernathy, MacGregor Group
Agency for Cultural Affiars (BUNKA-CHO), (Japan)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The Asian Cultural Council
Associazione Artegiovane, Milan
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Barclay’s Capital
Buhl Foundation
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle (Poland)
Communauté Française de Belgique, (Belgium)
Comune di Milano
J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US)
CulturesFrance (France)
The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, (Korea)
Délégation Générale du Québec à New York
Denmark Statens Kunstfond (Denmark, NEA)
The Edwards Foundation Arts Fund
Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
The FondiAnima (Italy)
Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (Netherlands)
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
Fundação Ilídio Pinho, (Portugal)
La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain)
Gerhard Computing, Inc.
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
Havas Advertising
Instituto das Artes-IA, (Portugal)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
Lakefield Family Foundation
Loews Corporation
Luso-American Development Foundation
Materials For the Arts
The Leo Model Foundation
The Polish Cultural Institute in New York
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany)
Tekserve
The Trust for Mutual Understanding
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan) ]]> http://www.location1.org/funders/feed/ 0 http://www.location1.org/miguel-palma/ http://www.location1.org/miguel-palma/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:27:32 +0000 irp http://test.location1.org/news/miguel-palma-portugal/
Deep Breath, 2007
Nine International Artists Exhibit
June 2nd – July 28th, 2007

Palma conducts the realization of his projects as an engineer or project designer. Methodical research and documentation are systematically applied toward the creation of grandiose mechanical devices and gestures that often question critical sociological and ecological issues in present times.

Palma lives and works in Sintra, Portugal. His work has been widely exhibited throughout Portugal and Europe. His work is featured among others in the collection of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon and Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra (CAPC) in Portugal. In France, at Centre de Creation Contemporain (CCC), Tours and FRAC, Rhone Alpes. In Spain at Fundacion ARCO, and recently at MUDAM, Luxemburg.

Miguel’s residency at Location One is supported by the Instituto das Artes and Fundacio Elidio Pinho.

http://www.mpalma.net/

May 28 – June 30, 2004

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On Thursday, May 27, Location One presents its third annual artist-in-residence group exhibition. Eight works ranging from video, to sculpture, to robotic structures, to interactive installations were developed by emerging international artists during their stay. Featured in the main gallery, the show will be open to the public through Wednesday, June 30th, 2004 and will be streamed live on www.location1.org

Vincent Lamouroux (France)
A site-specific wall drawing that consists of simple sets of words culled by the artist from Joseph Lanza’s writings “Gravity” as he investigates roller coaster structures as a social and cultural phenomenon in the US.

Alexandra do Carmo (Portugal)
In the installation “50 Richards” the artist explores issues of surveillance and voyeurism. The visitor is invited to sit at a microscope to view a continuous recording of the artist’s studio practice. Music inspired by the video and composed by Paul de Jong pours in from the ceiling.

Miguel Soares (Portugal)
H2O is a 3d animation about marine trash and the often absurd reactions of maritime flora and fauna to these “alien visitors”.

Federico Muelas (Spain)
What do Apples Sound Like? An interactive audio visual environment where the artist questions human perception by translating into sound the spatial values of the 365 vertices on an apple – symbol of wholeness and forbidden knowledge.

Hsiao Sheng Chien (Taiwan)
Watch is an installation with video robot and sensor that features an eye. The robot perceives the presence of the visitor and begins interacting with him, drawing him in, watching him and then pushing him away.

Koki Tanaka (Japan)
Things Happen Again presents a humorous reflection on the question of how we perceive the world by filming the simple and repetitive motion of rolls of tape that glide inside the frame.

Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)
Go Into This Space presents an evocative single screen DVD work, a silent film that consists of phasing texts, interrupted by flashing color fields, and utilizing structures of invocation and evocation.Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology.
Location One’s Residency Program is a central part of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world and different media to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work.

SPONSORS: INJUVE, Asian Cultural Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Turkey, Moon and Stars Project, AFAA – Ville de Paris, Yageo Tech-Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council), Australian Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Luso-American Development Foundation, Instituto das Artes (Lisbon).

Alexandra’s work uses drawing to explore the manifold relations between artist and audience, the public and the private. She not only explores drawing in its essential form of marks on paper, but also through the expanded frame of video, photography and performance. She is the recipient of a full fellowship for foreign study by the Calouste Gulbenkian and Luso-American Foundations, exhibits in Lisbon with Modulo Gallery, and has work on file at The Drawing Center, Artists Space, and Pierogi Gallery in New York.

Her work has investigated the context of the artist in society; problematizing the artist/audience relationship through her video projection performance, Micron 005, in which self selected audience members and the artist simultaneously draw on the lenses of different video cameras aimed at themselves, with the captured images being projected side by side onto an adjacent wall—the relationships of actor and spectator go through a kind of conceptual feedback loop, an open ended koan of control.

Alexandra’s residency at Location One is supported by Luso-American Development Foundation and Instituto das Artes (Lisbon).

Artist Interview with Robert Knafo, independent curator.