site-specific practices
Fernanda Eugenio & Gustavo Ciríaco
Fernanda Eugenio
Fernanda Eugenio is a Brazilian anthropologist and multi-artist working in-between groundwork research, writing, performance and multimedia arts. She holds a Post-Doc from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (2012), a Ph.D. (2006) and a M.A (2002) in Social Anthropology from the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She was also trained in Dance at Angel Vianna School & College.
For 15 years she worked within a strict academic frame while in parallel she had gradually drifted towards a singular research on the artistic-political uses of ethnography as a performative and circumscriptive interface for the creation of reciprocal and common landscapes.
Although she maintains her academic practices as Associate Research Fellow at CESAP, since 2011 she directs the autonomous research platform AND_Lab, where she develops the Modus Operandi AND - an ethic-aesthetic approach to the operative modes of the Event and the mediation of relations. As an inhabited philosophy for live co-positioning, MO_AND transversally applies both to artistic creation and everyday life. First designed as her doctorate research, MO_AND was then systematized in her pos-doc, with the collaboration of the choreographer João Fiadeiro (2011-13).
Simultaneously, since 2007 she works with ethnography in propositions of (in)visible site-specific wanderings/performances/installations (Ethnography as Situated Performance). In collaboration with the contextual artist Gustavo Ciríaco, she runs the project Site-Specific Practices. She also integrates the collectives: Baldio – Performance Studies, Lisbon Transformation Observatory, RIA Artistic Research Network and The Popular Peacock. Her writings – books, articles, critical reviews and texts – have been published in different countries, as well as her artworks, that have been shown in major festivals and museums and hosted by residence and art programs (mainly in South America and Europe and recently also in Asia).
Gustavo Ciríaco
Gustavo Ciríaco is a Brazilian performing and contextual artist. He started his career in Political Sciences and then drifted to dance-making and site-specific projects. In his works he dialogues with the historical, material and affective contexts one is involved in, producing from multimedia staged conceptual work, to urban interventions and contextual projects.
His works have been shown in major international festivals, galleries and art institutions in Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Asia, such as Museu Serralves, Tokyo Wonder Site, Al Mamal Foundation, Battersea Arts Centre, Tanz im August, Haus der Kulturen der Welten, Taipei Digital Art Center, Instituto Itaú, Panorama, Alkantara, Casa Encendida, Mercat de Flors, Chelsea Theatre, Havana Dance Biennial, Prague International Festival, Frankfurt Schausspiel Haus, Culturgest, FIDCU (Montevideo).
He’s been acting in urban space projects and landscape projects: Where the horizon moves (2013); Here whilst we walk (premiered in 2006 and seen in over 30 cities) and Neighbors (2009), in collaboration with Andrea Sonnberger (Aus); in conversational pieces: Drifting (Rio, Taipei, S. Paulo, Lisbon, Porto) in partnership with António Pedro Lopes (Pt); and in dance projects: They shall see (2010); Nothing. We shall see (2009); Still (2007), among others. In 2012-13, he developed the exhibition project A room of wonder (Japan|Br) and Where the horizon moves (Br|Uk). He was the artistic director of Manifesta! (Rio) and guest curator for the live art festival ENTRE Lugares (Rio|London) with Chelsea Theatre. Since 2009, he’s been working in collaboration with Fernanda Eugenio with whom he runs the project Site-Specific Practices: Performing the Space. He’s been guest teacher and lecturer at Master en Danse / Université Paris VIII, V&A Museum (Uk), Ramallah Fine Arts University (Palestine), Opéra de Lyon (Fr), Fnac Lisbon (Pt), Museo Reina Sofia (Sp), Sán Art Gallery (Vietnam), Itaú Cultural, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Panorama Festival (Br), Teatro Solis, (Uruguay), CENART (Mexico), among others.