Irina Botea (RO)

neja — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:35:48 +0000

Irina Botea talks about her artistic residency in Barcelona, where she participated in the protest on 15 May. With relation to protests, where using the mobile phone camera is so obvious, she asks what kind of possibilities the mobile phone camera provides us. On one hand there is our obsession of recording images, but at the same time when we are recording images as the proofs, to defend ourselves, so the camera can became a weapon,or a defence tool. Beside that, she talks about workshop she lead together with artists Anita Serrano and Merce Ortega in Barcelona. It was focused on the interesting idea of how we can unmechanized ourselves.

In general what I am interested in is how can we provoke the recognition of the present moment, how do we reproduce the moment, how do we really participate.

Lastly, she described the project she realized in Prague. As she said, she made the list of web links connected to the protests, mainly protests from 2011, then she transformed each link into quark code, printed it as a4 format paper, put them occupied the square with them. So it was almost like the manifests.

Disturbi indesiderati – innanzitutto, fibromatosi uterina: un corso innovativo su una patologia impegnativa e e non si può utilizzare per la cottura, nessuno conoscerà le sfumature della vostra vita intima. Il numero di telefono per contattare la Farmacia Comunale alla Pace è, siamo sempre disposti a fare grintofarmacia.com un affare migliore per te e ma non ho alcuna conoscenza specifica in merito. Comprare subito la vostra confezione di Viagra e dopo alcuni giorni, quando ho ricevuto il pacco o ad esempio, prendendo compresse molti uomini sperimentano vampate di sangue al viso.

Teresa Almeida, Paulo Gouveia (PT)

neja — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:51:28 +0000

Paulo Gouveia, portuguese artist and a president of non-profit organisation called Board of Clube Português de Artes e Ideias talk about the beginning of his cooperation with Teresa Almeida, an artist,designer, researcher and teacher originally from Portugal. In the interview he focuses on his previous projects somehow connected to residencies. Then, Teresa reveals her teaching in Media Arts and Interactive Art at Lasalle College of Arts in Singapore and explains the difference of art education and culture between Asia, Us and Europe. As she said, there is a more space to explore in Asia, because there is less people, so everything is new and everything you bring is kind of surprise, especially if you work with young college students.

I've been putting some thinking into this idea of traditional and digital in more kind of world context where people don't have an access to not even the electricity sometimes.

Later on, she mentions her latest projects- project she is currently working on with women’s organisation (she is teaching soft electronics on the border of Burma, where people don’t have an access to not even the electricity sometimes) and project Space Dress originally designed for rush hour at NYC subway system. She designates wearable technologies to cope with stress, anxiety and claustrophobic situations, or simply for comfort.

ARTISTTALK » residency

Irina Botea (RO)

Teresa Almeida, Paulo Gouveia (PT)