A Cultivamos Cultura apresenta a exposição Acquired Immunity (Imunidade Adquirida), uma exposição de obras experimentais, reunidas pela curadoria de Marta de Menezes, que procuram relatar uma produção de anticorpos nunca vistos na natureza. Vai ocupar a nossa antiga quinta, no Sul de Portugal, mas também um jardim digital criado para o Ars Electronica 2020.

Criámos também um espaço virtual onde a exposição vive com as suas peças criadas para o nosso celeiro e com a adição de peças específicas ao Hub. A digitalização e modelação em 3D de todas as peças patentes no nosso espaço fisico e virtual não teriam sido possíveis sem a colaboração e empenho dos nossos colaboradores e membros da nossa equipa. Agradecemos do fundo do coração ao Pavel Tavares, Diana Aires, Claudia Figueiredo, Dalila Honorato, Adam Zaretsky, Luis Graça e especialmente ao Nuno Sousa.

O Ars Electronica é um dos maiores festivais, a nível mundial, dedicados à interseção entre a arte e a tecnologia, e este ano, face à pandemia de COVID-19, adotou um novo formato que se expandiu por 120 localidades espalhadas pelo mundo. Neste contexto, é na vila de São Luís que o local e o global se vão encontrar, num espaço dedicado a trocas entre humanos e não-humanos.

Para além da exposição vamos apresentar visitas guiadas à paisagem natural e social que nos rodeia e micro-documentários que relatam algumas das residências que foram desenvolvidas e acolhidas pelo nosso espaço ao longo do tempo.

Artists: Adam Zaretsky; Alan Tod; Amy Youngs; António Caramelo; Carla Rebelo; Carolyn Angleton; Dalila Honorato; Hege Tapio; Isabel Burr Raty; Karolina Żyniewicz; Kathy High; Ken Rinaldo; Kira O’Reilly; Lena Lee; Louise Mackenzie; Maria Manuela Lopes; Mark Lipton; Marta de Menezes; Matilde Real; Mónica Garcia; Paulo Bernardino Bastos; Pavel Tavares; Robertina Šebjanič.

Cultivamos Cultura presents Acquired Immunity, an exhibition of experimental artwork brought to you by the curator Marta de Menezes. It is a creative response based on the production of antibodies never seen in nature before. Taking place in our old farm, in the south of Portugal, but also a digital garden created for Ars Electronica 2020.

We have also created a virtual space where the exhibition lives with all the works created for our barn and the addition of specific works for the Hub. The digitisation and 3D modelling of all the works that exist in our physical and digital space would not have been possible without once again the extreme generosity and commitment of all our team and collaborators. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts Pavel Tavares, Diana Aires, Claudia Figueiredo, Dalila Honorato, Adam Zaretsky, Luis Graça and especially too Nuno Sousa.

Ars Electronica is one of the biggest festivals in the world that dedicates itself to the intersection between art and technology. This year, due to coronavirus crisis, presented itself in a new format that combines 120 locations spread all over the world. In this context, the local and the global will merge in São Luís, in a space dedicated to the interwoven exchanges of human and non-human.

Also part of the program:

– guided tours of the surrounding natural park landscape and culture of Sao Luis (Alentejo, Portugal)

– micro-documentaries on the work developed by former residents exploring the possibilities of laboratory and fieldwork in art and biology.

Cultivamos Cultura’s Garden is a space where the local and the global merge, that we see as a live organism. Like all organisms, it has different levels of organization at distinct scales: cells, tissues, organs, systems. At its core, a community of artists/researchers/makers, our residents, keep Cultivamos Cultura alive. At the next level, the interwoven exchanges with the local community of human and non-human members in São Luis (Alentejo, Portugal) within the largest natural park of the country. And beyond, the connections get strengthened by links that reach the whole world.

Program Part 1 – Acquired Immunity Exhibition

Acquired immunity displays artworks arising from our residencies and invited artists. We bring together artworks that were created as a response to challenges from the local environment: natural, social, and other artists. A response that we compare to the way the immune system responds to new challenges. We also present short glimpses of those local environments around São Luís, that are part of the Cultivamos Cultura experience.

Available online during all the festival. Between 9.9 and 13.9 , 00.00 to 23.59 CET

Program Part 2 – Acquired Immunity Guided Tours:

Guided tours of the exhibition by the curator, Marta de Menezes, an artist, Adam Zaretsky, and an immunologist, Luis Graca, will provide different paths within the real and virtual spaces.

Videos available online during the festival. Between 9.9 and 13.9 , 00.00 to 23.59[AG1].

Live conversation with Marta de Menezes will be on the 12.9, between the 14.00 and 12.00.

Live conversation with Adam Zaretsky will be on the 10.9, between the 14.00 and 12.00.

Live conversation with Luis Graça will be on the 11.9, between the 14.00 and 12.00.

Program Part 3 – Acquired Immunity beyond Cultivamos Cultura

Virtual tours of the natural and social landscape around Cultivamos Cultura.

Videos available online during the festival. Between 9.9 and 13.9 , 00.00 to 23.59

Program Part 4 – Acquired Immunity art and biology at Cultivamos Cultura

Videos available online during the festival. Between 9.9 and 13.9 , 00.00 to 23.59 CET.

Live Q&A with Marta de Menezes (artist) and Luis Graça (scientist) will be on the 12.9, between the 12.00 and 13.00 CET.

Micro-documentaries and a Q&A live session related to the possibilities of laboratory and fieldwork in art and biology at Cultivamos Cultura.

Acknowledgements:

Our presence would not be possible without the committed and enthusiastic group of people from our team and contributors that responded to our challenge and join us in our efforts. Also we thank the Ars Electronica team and organisers that made this all possible.

Cultivamos Cultura Team:

Marta de Menezes, Cultivamos Cultura, PT

Luis Graça, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, PT

Pavel Tavares, Cultivamos Cultura, ( executive audiovisual production), PT

Claudia Figueiredo, Cultivamos Cultura, PT

Diana Mordido Aires, Cultivamos Cultura, PT

Our friends that answered our call:

Adam Zaretsky, NADLinc, US/PT

Dalila Honorato, Ionian University, GR

Bruno Caracol, (audiovisual production), PT

Léna Lewis King, (audiovisual production), UK/PT

Michelle Lewis King, UK/PT

Nuno Sousa, PT

Ars Electronica:

Daina Silina, LV/AT

Christl Baur, DE/AT