VIDEO-INSTALLATIONS

HUGO MESQUITA

Hugo Mesquita works in the creation of interactive audiovisual systems using several digital media for interactive installation and multimedia performance where he explores the relationships between body, technology and new media. Graduated in Tecnologias da Comunicação Multimédia at ESMAE and Master in Multimedia by the Universidade do Porto, currently integrates the Doctoral Program in Digital Media of UP / Austin where he focuses in the research of creative collaboration between artists and artificial intelligence. He has performed several projects of interactive digital scenography and videomapping for opera, among which the multimedia operas As Sete Mulheres de Jeremias Epicentro at the Teatro Campo Alegre (2017) distinguished with the 3rd Prémio Nacional Indústrias Criativas Super Bock/Serralves and the BfK Awards*, Ninguém e Todo-o-Mundo at the Teatro Helena Sá e Costa (2018) and Simplex at the Teatro Campo Alegre (2019). During his career, he also produced artistic installations works, highlighting the interactive multimedia installation Super Bock Creative Experience in Serralves em Festa (2014), the interactive installation 7YRS in Maus Hábitos (2016), the interactive lighting installation Ng in Semibreve (2016) and the laser installation LUiZ, on the bridge D. Luíz I, when celebrating the 20 years of the elevation of the city of Oporto to world heritage. He also developed multimedia applications and digital games, obtaining awards such as the Multimedia Award XXI - Honorable Mention (APMP 2003), Special Mention for "Mobile Program" (FIAMP 2009) and Bronze Web'Art Special Prize (FIAMP 2012). Alongside the incursions in the media arts he teaches creative programming, interactive digital systems and physical computing at the Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design and the Universidade do Porto.

GUARDA VIEJA 3458 TIMBRE 3/6

KAREN AKERMAN, MIGUEL SEABRA LOPES

2023 | BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, PORTUGAL | DOC, EXP | 12'’

In exile, a brazilian child develops strategies to rise

BIOGRAPHY 
Karen and Miguel work together since 2010 with film and video mixing fiction, documentary and experimental. Karen works mainly as an editor for films and series; Miguel as a screenwriter. 

A MONSTER WITH ITS MOUTH AGAPE

STEVEN MCINERNEY

2024 | UK | EXP | 11'

A Monster with its Mouth Agape is an experimental film, expanded live performance, and installation inspired by the profound insights of Yoshito Ohno. Its multiple forms interpret the metamorphic states of Butoh, radiating from monochromatic intensity to multihued abstraction, with a soundtrack that reverberates the haunting soundscapes from the chaotic post-war climate of Japan. The works feature a rare audio recording of Ohno, with each line of poetic movement expressed as visual metaphor. As Yoshito’s influence continues to ripple into the present, these subversive forms of dance embody a sense of timelessness, deeply rooted in Japanese archaic tradition, folklore, and mythology.

A film by Steven McInerney
Visual design in collaboration with Vincent Rang
Words spoken by Yoshito Ohno
Sound by Howlround & Merkaba Macabre
Commissioned by Rebellious Bodies, International Butoh Dance Festival
Supported by Dance Archive Network, Canta Co. Ltd, and Arts Council England.

BIOGRAFIA
Steven McInerney (b. Melbourne, 1983) is an artist living in London, combining 16mm, digital projection, and sound spatialisation to create expanded forms of cinema, live audiovisual performances, and installations. McInerney’s work investigates behavioural responses to emergent phenomena, using the time-variant systems of media for exploration. Their cinematic work draws upon dichotomous energies, meditating between the sacred and profane. Live performances utilise multi-channel projection and real-time feedback systems, employing a structuralist methodology that values error and reappropriation. From here, spectulative narratives take form, often blurring the lines between science and fiction. McInerney is the founder of Psyché Tropes, an interdisciplinary platform for media archaeological research and publication, with a monthly radio programme on Resonance 104.4 FM.

A_BIOGRAPHY

ALEXANDER SCHELLOW

2017 | FRANCE, GERMANY | DOC, EXP | 6'

How can a person suffering from Alzheimer still tell herself her own life? When words are no longer there, only remain the sensations and the sounds the body remembers. In the community room of an Alzheimer clinic, a music coming from a radio triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair.
Remembering the moves she used to perform, her body brings along a series of sound memories. Entirely drawn and animated from memory, A_biography reconstructs dot by dot this emergence of memory where it is no longer expected, in an effort to keep this body and this life from oblivion.
When words are no longer there, only remain the sensations and the sounds the body remembers. In the community room of an Alzheimer clinic, a music coming from a radio triggers the dancing of an old lady in a wheelchair. Remembering the moves she used to perform, her body brings along a series of sound memories. Entirely drawn and animated from memory, A_biography reconstructs dot by dot this emergence of memory where it is no longer expected, in an effort to keep this body and this life from oblivion.

BIOGRAFIA
Alexander Schellow (1974, pronoun he/his)
The research originates in an interest for methods of memory (re)construction, which he developed and pursued in daily drawing and animation practice. The hybrid processes materialize into projects that have been shown widely international, most recently at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. In addition collaborations in recent years have focused in particular on the creation of specific archives (e.g. Colonial Family Films, Belgium) or on interfaces of human/digital (re)cognition, especially in the field of current deep learning developments.
His pedagogical practice has taken him to universities, among others, in London, Paris, Tirana, Singapore, Mexico City and Brussels, where he founded AnimLAB and since 2013 holds a professorship in animation, heading an MA of more than human practices at the erg - école de recherche graphique.