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Applications are now open for the Postgraduate in Interarts, which begins in October 2024.

Coordinated by Luís Lima and Alexandra Martins, the Postgraduate Course in Interarts aims to provide students with practical skills and conceptual tools in the area of contemporary art, with artistic installation and performance as its main disciplinary anchors. Taking into account the growing relationship between art, body and technology, the curricular plan presents an interdisciplinary approach focused on expanded artistic production, bringing together curricular units of a laboratory and theoretical-practical nature.  

With a strong connection to the professional sector, the course also aims to encourage students' contact with the world of work, featuring a teaching staff with prestigious Portuguese artists, as well as several emerging artists. In order to complement the study program, the postgraduate course also offers a series of seminars with guest teachers in the areas of art and technology. At the end of the course, each student must present the project developed throughout the year, under tutoring, in a collective exhibition, curated by the coordinators.

The teaching staff brings together artists and/or researchers Alexandra Martins, Ana Mira, António Poppe, Bárbara Paixão, João Pedro Fonseca, João Polido Gomes, José Marmeleira, Luís Lima, Tatiana Macedo and the duo Von Calhau!.

Applications can be submitted from this form.

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Catarina Sobral, professor at Postgraduate in Illustration from the School of Arts, won the 28th edition of the 2023 National Illustration Prize, awarded by the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries, for the publication of the book “Ghosts, Bananas and Ostrizes”.

The book was published in 2023, as part of a literary collection for children, entitled “Mission: Democracy” and published by the Assembly of the Republic. Aimed at children, the book addresses the topic of laws and rules, why they exist, what they are for in society and their importance in relationships between people.

Starting in June, the Escola das Artes will host the Cinema Círculo program, an independent cinema cycle that aims to promote long-term sessions. The first session will take place on Saturday, June 29th, starting at 11 am, and will be shown a film selected from the work of ethnomusicologist Michel Giacometti, “Povo que Canta 1971-1973”. Entry is free.

Cinema O (circle) aims to showcase works, formats and geographies that are underrepresented in the current distribution system and cinemas in Lisbon. A cinema that, for one reason or another, finds itself on the margins, without space, outside of a commercial logic that does not aim at profit, but that seeks reflection, debate and critical thinking.

In this first year of programming, Cinema O wants to focus on slow cinema, especially its longer films. Films that, for logistical reasons related to their duration, do not have the opportunity to be seen in their entirety in a theater in single sessions. In practical terms, this program year will be divided into two cycles.

In the first, the emphasis is on works by artists or collectives that are at the same time long, but possible to segment. It will follow a logic of “episodes”, with pre-established intervals, so that viewers can enter and leave the room freely, without losing the idea of unity.

Escola das Artes will host the exhibition “Conexo, Convexo, Concavo”, by Marco Fedele di Catrano, which opens on June 20th, Thursday. From changes site-specific, Catrano's work explores the relationship between industrial architecture and its sculptural pieces, some of which are produced from industrialized objects, creating dynamics and renewed perceptions of space and objects.

Installation-based, the exhibition includes several works on different supports. A series in works “Untitled#” part of bags in supermarket banal in big ones commercial chains. Virados of inside out, the bags revelam to the your structures fibrous intertwined. Deconstructed through from the removal partial of your seams, becomethe source of one image negative molded as one relief resin acrylic. Combined It is sealed through in one process temporal of resin several layers, those becomeup to presence of the bags at your absence physical. The pArt of the bags, withdrawals after O mold, he leavesm yet some trace elements. Thus, the work addresses  he wants O object It is material industrial, globally patternOnized, he wants Os finishings in hand–in–constructions cheap. Together to the handrail, one model represents The constructions “Rising Reversed” It is it is in relationship antithetical with The convexity from the clarabOia. To the same time, you two spaces matchup. 

Marco Fedele di Catrano is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose different creative practices aim to bridge the gap between art and society. His work in the areas of installation, sculpture, photography and video is characterized by an intuitive handling of materials, objects and spaces. Among other venues, Catrano has exhibited at the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona), CII Fabrika (Moscow), Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (Moscow), Haus fur Kunst Uri (Altdorf), la rada (Locarno), Kunstraum Walcheturm (Zurich), Museo Maga ( Gallarate), Museum Mestna Galerija (Ljubljana), RAM radioartemobile (Rome), Gallery Mario Iannelli (Berlin), Kunstmuseum Thun (Thun), American Academy (Rome), WUK (Vienna) and Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow). He participated in the parallel program of the 54th Venice Biennale with “Extroversion”, a project by Franz West, and also participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2010, with the “Epicentro” project. He won the Swiss Federal Prize for Visual Art “Swiss Art Awards 2013”.

The opening of the exhibition takes place on June 20th, Thursday, from 6pm, at the Escola das Artes, in Campo de Ourique, and entry is free.

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The students of this edition of the Postgraduate Course in Illustration present the collective exhibition “Atlas Interior”, opening on May 31st, Friday, at 6:00 pm, at Trius in São Vicente, Alfama, located in the historic building of the former Institute of Arts and Crafts of the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation.

The exhibition brings together works created in the curricular unit Illustration Technologies, taught by illustrator Bernardo P. Carvalho. Using mixed techniques of collage and Indian ink, the illustrations reflect the students' imagination about notions of origin and belonging.

Igor Correia, Inês Duarte, Giulia Galindo, Maria Giovanna Mura, Nani Brunini, Sofia Pires, Sofia Luz, Tatiana Fernandes and Yulia Malinina are the artists represented in the exhibition.

The “Atlas Interior” exhibition is the result of a partnership between Escola das Artes and Trius and is coordinated by professor Inês Viegas Oliveira. Entry is free.