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International Creator Residency Program
update: 2019.11.7
Gustavo Ciríaco
| Participating Project | International Creator Residency Program |
|---|---|
| Activity Based | Brazil / Portugal |
| Period | 2012.8 - 2012.11 |
Purpose of the residency
A room of wonder is a performing installation project that departs from the literal but torn meaning behind the word biography: a life that writes and collects. It takes inspiration in the wonder rooms or cabinet of curiosities, the private prototypes of modern museums under Renaissance times and invites to the adventure of creating the collection of wonders of a group of artists and its insertion in real time in an exhibition room for common share, with no limit of the medias used. A collection of their artistic trajectories, of their days, of their belonging to different histories of the art, of the scene, of their imaginaries and of their time. A collection of Japanese men and women, dancers, actors, sculptors, video artists, performers, ordinary people, working collaboratively across fields, helping each other sharing tools and knowledge for the creation of one room of wonders.
Plan during the residency
As a research path, initially stand the multiple ways that a man writes his history and how he belongs to a wider community, the biography codes through which one is seen, read, historicized. Writing as related to tracing, to registering, to framing; biography as related to accumulation, collection of moments, images, and sensations. A group of local artists will be engaged in a gradual collective construction of a collection of wonders of their own, with no limit of the medias used, in terms of its performance or its visibility support. The project is partly a field research on the act and history of collecting and the practical development and setting up of a performing exhibition room.
