LIVE CINEMA
My live cinema is often delicate, using Nature themes, creating loops as painting moving images. I also use documentary footage to bring in social issues into a dance floor. In London, I created visuals for Djs and bands, in galleries and clubs.
TRANSIENT FORMS PERFORMANCES
Transient Forms was a live performance using my Mutant paintings. The performance took many shapes. The images are tiny moving paintings that I manipulate and project using slide and video projections. I did pure analogue performances where I was painting live, as well as computer based performances. Bellow there is some documentation of these mysterious and beautiful performances in London, with live music collaborations, including Tim Cowie from The Light Surgeons.
STAGE PERFORMANCE
For 10 weeks I attended a course in Interactive Performance - The Lisbon Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts Course (ITPA) - at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with tutors from the postgraduate program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts of the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
It was an intensive full-time experience in performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, and interactive media technology. Historical and theoretical study of improvisation, performance, and collaboration in the performing arts was also an important component of the program. Eleven artists from all disciplines came together to create a total of 5 performances per group. The final performance was presented to the public at the Center of Modern Art on the 23rd August 2008.
My great interest and research was related with the set-up and interaction of performance with moving image, in particular the use of multi-screens. Mirrors, glasses, projections, software, acting, lighting, movement, space, was all part of the experiments. In that context I did a research project about The Light Surgeons a favourite multi-media artists' collective based in London. That research included a video-interview with Chris Allen in collaboration with Kevin Walsh and Sérgio Cruz.
Centre of Modern Art, Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2008