Site-Specific Practices workshop in Lisbon

11-27 March 2014 | Atelier Real, Lisbon

This workshop aims to offer a space for experience and discussion of the different modes of dealing artistically with the daily materiality and of the modes of activation of site-specific propositions in the city. Through exercises of displacement and permanence, the workshop will explore and put into practice questions common to contextual art and ethnography, as tools for performances in situ, such as: conditions of (in)visibility and regimes of attention applied to the common and interval ambiances of the city; the urban patterns that emerge from interaction between geography, architecture, use and inhabitation; insertions and breaches offered (or not) by the modulations between private and public spheres, near-distant stances, in the constant transit between coexistence and conviviality. The participants are invited to engage in practical creative work “on the terrain”, starting with an ethnographic and sensible mapping of a public space.

To apply please send a small bio to info@re-al.org