Artists and Projects for 2008
Andrea Brandão is a Portuguese visual artist born in Vila Nova de Gaia and living in Lisbon. Holding a B.A. in industrial design, she later studied fine arts at Ar.co (Arts and Visual Communication Center). As complementary activities she has been participating in several workshops of theatre, video, performance, dance and voice, directed by Laurent Simões, Sofia Neuparth and João Fiadeiro.
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Is a Paris-based perfomance artist with a focus on public space actions (or non-actions), charged with irony and sometimes almost invisible to the passer-by. In Cédric’s own words: “My stance as an artist is my stance as a human. I am not different from the others.
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is a London-based German visual artist,working in the fields of installation and video. She has presented her work in many festivals and galleries across Europe and the USA (One-Minute-Film Festival – Switzerland, Terrace Gallery – London, Zemos98 Film
and Video Festival – Spain to name a few).
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Duncan Whitley is an English artist (trained in the visual arts) and sound recordist whose recent work has focused on collecting, analysing, categorising and editing raw material extracted from the social and urban fabric. He is interested in the social and documentary values of sound as a medium, and his work explores the use of sound and new media to develop alternative narrative forms.
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Evelyn Müürsepp, is an Estonian visual artist. She holds a B.A in Fine Arts by the University of Tartu and is one of the coordinators of MoKS, an art residency center in Mooste.
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(1981, Lisbon) Studied literature at Lisbon University. Finished the Advanced Photography Bachelor program at Ar.Co School in Lisbon. In his projects he works with photography, video, sound (in particular the areas of field recording and concrete music), objects and mixed-media installations.
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John Grzinich is a mixed-media artist who has worked primarily with sound composition, performance and installation since the early 1990.
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Was born in Joniškis, Lithuania and lives and works in Lithuania and Germany. She holds an MA in painting and art theory by the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1995, Jurate has developed many visual arts projects, namely site-specific works in natural environments that were presented in festivals and galleries on the Baltic countries and Germany.
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Is an Israeli multidisciplinary artist working in performance, installation, photography and drawing. Her practice in the last 10 years has focused on site-specific projects exploring an environment through direct exploration, using her body, and the available materials of the site to carry out actions and to create temporary configurations.
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Austrian composer and improviser, using both acoustic instruments (cello) and electronics. He has collaborated with other sound artists such as Klaus Filip, Mattin, o.blaat, erikM, etc. and with choreographers or performers (João Fiadeiro, Katharina Bauer, Mariella Greil, Tetsuo Furudate and Akemi Takeya).
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Is a French field recordist and sound artist. He is the co-founder of the experimental music label Universinternational and member of the Ici-Même Art collective in Grenoble.
Since the early 00’s he has been creating many sound works (several of which were released through labels such as Universinternational, And-Oar, Picomedia and Entr’acte), listening projects in several cities, sound installations and experimental radio pieces.
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Toomas Thetloff is an Estonian interdisciplinary artist working in the fields of photography, sound, installation, performance and video.
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Is a British sound artist, based in London and Rochester, Minnesota who has worked and broadcast internationally since the early 1980s. Articles about her have appeared in several magazines and she has been broadcast on radio (BBC Radio 3 and 4, Resonance fm, WFMU…) and TV (BBC Channel 4).
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Wolfgang Dorninger lives and works in Linz and Vienna, Austria. His main artistic expression focuses in sound art and experimental music ranging from sound-installation to concert, multimedia and radio art. He teaches at the Art-University in Linz, Austria and composes music for theatre, dance and film.
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