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Estrategia Artists: Ricardo Basbaum, Cadu, DuVa, Estrategia is a group exhibition of contemporary art from Brazil. Brazil, like the other BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries is experiencing the emergence of new technologies and, consequently, new global communications and thinking. This group exhibition is an example of the artists breaking the mould, playing with the systems and creating new ways of seeing. MimoSa is an artist’s collective and workshop that moves around Brazilian cities. They underline the politics inherent in the access to technology, and are motivated by the idea that people start to think critically about media when they start to produce their own. DuVa’s process of video editing reveals transcendental moments in moving images of the body. His videos and performances are ostensibly abstract and animalistic in form. Edouard Fraipont produces a series of phantasmagorical photographs, which explore Guto Nobrega has designed a robot animated by the energy fields from a plant, exploring the ubiquitous divides in society between nature and technology. Ricardo Basbaum’s, Would you like to participate in an artistic experience?, is a project about involving people in a set of protocols around contemporary art. Cadu conceives and accomplishes drawings using an explicit rule, like in a game. His work exists in-between intellect and sensitivity, project and result, the rule and its application. The exhibition interrogates technology on many levels, raising issues around our relationship to landscape, social politics, the body and the transcendental. Does the work and the artists’ experience suggest that these systems are not nearly complex or sensitive enough to contain human culture? Special thanks for the assistance of Cadu and Roberta Mahfuz from the British Council in Sao Paulo and Arts Council England Artist Links Brazil Programme Manager. |
Image: DuVa, Study for self-portrait in Movement 1, 2005 |
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Talk Join Michael Asbury for a talk about modernism and contemporary art in Brazil, in response to new technologies and the exhibition. Michael Asbury is Reader in the history and theory of art at the University of Arts London. He is a core member of the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation at UAL, where he also directs the MA in the Theory and Practice of Transnational Art. He has published widely and has curated a number of exhibitions. Book your place on this free talk at the box office. |
Image: Edouard Fraipont, 2005 |
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MimoSa Workshop MimoSa invites the people of Plymouth to work with them for two days to create a portable recording device, which will be used to gather stories. MimoSa are an artists’ collective who use redundant technology to create portable systems to document people’s lives in Brazil. MimoSa’s practice has been influential on Brazilian governmental policy on technology and the Internet, and the artists group are partly responsible for the development of open software practice in Brazil. |
Image: MimoSa workshop in Belem, Brazil |
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