Summer School “Cultivamos Cultura 2017”-São Luis- From 3th July | 12th July

The intersection of Art, Biology and the Environment offer unique opportunities to visual artists. This innovative summer course, which is already on its fourth edition, will allow non-specialists to acquire theoretical and practical skills in biological and environmental sciences in connection to the visual arts. The Summer School explores the interdisciplinary relationship between art, life…

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Ponto Exhibition | Odemira | December 16th 2016 to January 14th 2017

NEW MEDIA AND EXPERIMENTAL ART EXHIBITION IN THE TOWN OF ODEMIRA. Ponto is our newest exhibition that gathers the works of the year of 2016’s activities at Cultivamos Cultura. This exhibition gathers a set of international and national artists with recognized merit in several visual arts disciplines and performance. We’ve had a particularly exciting year with lots…

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THE NEW ART FEST – Lisbon -from 3rd to 10th of November

We were participating in Lisbon New Art Fest with Immortality for two. In Immortality for two Marta de Menezes and Luís Graça will immortalize each other immune cells. This will be achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector. The immortal cells, although derived from two people in love, as they derive from…

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BEIJING MEDIA ART BIENALLE 2016 – from 25th of September to 8th of October

Immortality for two In Immortality for two the author and her collaborator (her partner) will immortalize each other immune cells. This will be achieved by introducing cancer-inducing genes in the cells with a viral vector. The immortal cells, although derived from two people in love, as they derive from immune cells involved in the body…

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LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE 2016 – from 7th to 27th of September

In UN/BIASED the Portuguese design team merge design and science, using bacteria to visualise data streams pertaining to an opaque, yet eroding factor in Portuguese society: sexism. The installation is comprised of four maps that contrast gender gaps in areas such as wages and higher education. Two maps are computer-generated, animated visualisations that extrapolate a…

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JAM SESSION – 18th of August 2016

We had big jam session where Irene Lima, Rui Graca, Daniel Sousa, Paul Berteaud were playing with guitars, drum, cello and Sara Montalvao, Maria Carmen Serrano, Llanos de Miguel were dancing contemporary dance. All artists had never done this together, everything was improvisation without extensive preparation.

QUILTING 2016

We made big quilting. Each person gave some small part for it. We started to make it from Summer School 2016 and finnished before festival Montras. Thank you: Andrew Carnie, Anna Isaak-Ross, Antonio Caramelo, Claudia Figueiredo,Emre Sünter, Fabbiene Lucet, Gunalan Nadarajan, Irina Aristarkhova, Maria Carmen, Marie-Pier Boucher, Marta de Menezes, Nigel Helyer, Rūta Jančiulytė, Thierry Bardini….

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Maika Serrano & Artefacto206 Residency – August 2016

Artefacto206 (Maria Carmen Serrano, Llanos de Miguel and Sara Mohino Harris) did they residency in Cultivamos Cultura. They are aerial dancers. One of their goals is to bring dance to alternative air spaces, for example, on the cork tree.