Team
Artistic project: Mónica de Miranda lives and works in Lisbon and London. She is a visual artist and a performer. Her artistic background includes several public art projects and artistic residencies in galleries and public institutions both nationally and internationally.
Among her more recent solo exhibitions , the most noteworthy are: Touring exhibition New Geographies (198 Gallery, London, 2007; Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2008 ; Image IC, Amesterdam, 2008 ), In Between Lines (Artery Space, London, 2004) and Routes (The Red Gate Gallery, London, 2003). Her work has also been presented in various collective shows , such as: Mundos Locais (Allgarve, Lagos 2008), London Caravan,( Iniva ,London 2008), Estado do mundo (F.C.Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2007), United Nations (Singapore Fringe Festival, 2007), European’s Workers Union (Bienais de Liverpool and London, 2006), We are the revolution (Elastic Gallery/Whitechapell, London, 2004), In Search of Identity – New Visions (Doncaster Museum, Doncaster, UK, 2004), Changing Channels (The Backfabrik, Berlin, 2003) e Memories (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2002). She has also participated in several artistic residencies, namely, Muyehlekete/Triangle Arts (MUSART, Maputo, Moçambique, 2008), O Guru, o Turista e a Globalização (Fundação Oriente/Tamil Nadu, Índia, 2007). Among other projects and workshop developed in colaboration the most significant to mention are: Art of Travel (Tate Britain, London, 2008), Verbal Eyes – Trienal of Tate Britain (London 2009)
Curator: Paul Goodwin is an urbanist, curator and researcher. He is director of the Re-Visioning Black Urbanism project, based at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London. The project explores new modes of inhabiting, imagining and making cities from progressive black and culturally diverse perspectives by organising exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars and publications. Paul is also a creative consultant for the inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts) Mapping Project and a member of the Franco-British Council for whom he co-organised (with Bonnie Greer) an international symposium on the “Challenges of Cultural Diversity in the UK and France” in November, 2006. In January 2008 Paul was appointed as Curator: Cross Cultural at Tate Britain in London.
Cinema curator: Lúcia Marques is a contemporary art independent curator. Born in Lisbon (1974), where she lives and works, she graduated in Art History and is presently finishing her MA on Curatorial Studies at the Faculty of Visual Arts (University of Lisboa/Gulbenkian Foundation) about the impact of migratory flows on visual arts. She has regularly published her texts in newspapers, magazines and catalogues, and, in 2001-2006, was part of the team of the Institute of Arts of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. She was the curator of the visual arts programme in Brussels for the Portuguese Presidency of the EU (July-December 2007). She was also the curator of the following projects: “Ana Vidigal: Dez Anos de Trabalhos Paralelos” (Centro Cultural de Lagos, 2005), “Xana: Arte Opaca e outros Fantasmas” (co-curator: Alexandre Pomar, Culturgest, Lisbon, 2005), “Outras Zonas de Contacto” (co-curator: Victor Pires Vieira, Fundação Carmona e Costa + Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, 2007), “New Geographies, Lisbon. Mónica de Miranda” (Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, 2008; in partnership with 198 Gallery of Londen and with the Imagine IC of Amsterdam), “Local Worlds: spaces visibilities and transcultural flows” (co-curator: Paula Roush, Centro Cultural de Lagos/Forte Pau da Bandeira, Lagos, 2008) and “Deslocações, 4 perspectivas portuguesas contemporâneas: André Cepeda, Edgar Martins, José Carlos Teixeira, Tatiana Macedo” (CESE, Brussels, 2007; roaming in 2008-2009 in the cultural centres of the IC: S. Tomé/S. Tomé e Príncipe, Maputo/Mozambique, Brasília/Brazil, Luanda/Angola, Praia/Cap Verd).
Production: Jorge Rocha is an artist and independent producer. He have the Fine Arts degree in the EsadCr (Arts and Design University of Caldas da Rainha). He produced the exhibitions of the Cultural Center of Lagos between 2005 and 2008, where he also gained experience as Graphic Designer and museographist, and directed the production of several big projects, as the ‘Laccobriga: the Roman occupation in the Lagos Bay’ in 2006 or more recently the ‘Local Worlds: spaces, visibilitys and transcultural flows’ within the Allgarve08. Regularly develops artistic activity, standing out the Administrative Procedure Performance in LAC which was established in Lagos and presented in contemporary expoarte of Mozambique and the International Film Festival of Portuguese Speaking Countries held in Joao Pessoa Brazil in 2007. It is also the co-author of the “Quartas de Cinema (Wednesdays of Cinema)” that between 2003 and 2008 created a assiduous public of cinema in Lagos.