surely smelled great

As a way of sniffing some cultural air up in my noseholes these final days in Lisbon, we went to culturgest in Campo Pequeno today. And it surely smelled great. It's a huge museum with a major concert and exhibition program, so we went along and saw everything there was to see today. First of all there where two exhibitions: Ricardo Jacinto (earworm) and Frances Stark (the fall of Frances Stark). Afterwards we attended a perfomance by Tim Crouch (England), while awaiting we didn't really know what to expect, but that made the experience even more compelling. I posted some more info underneath.

RICARDO JACINTO - EARWORM

He is one of the Portuguese artists who have produced the most individual and stimulating works in the last ten years. This exhibition was conceived as a constellation that includes and re-articulates a very significant part of his work since the late 1990s. With a solid background in different areas (architecture, fine arts, music), he has been developing a multifaceted practice, with a strong emphasis on the artistic process, which takes the studio and exhibition space as laboratories. It frequently involves collaboration with other artists and musicians, using and combining very different modes of artistic expression, with special emphasis on sculpture, sound and performance. His works, and indeed this exhibition as a whole, offer an intense experience that engages both visual and aural perception, our cognitive perception and body posture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUilmSMYgtE

FRANCES STARK - THE FALL OF FRANCES STARK

While you could say that language is Frances Stark’s primary medium, Frances herself is Stark’s primary subject matter. Taken individually, most of her works are self-portraits of some kind; put together, they fan out into full-blown autobio-graphy, featuring not just the central protagonist also a supporting cast of favourite authors, friends and collaborators, gallerists and curators, musicians, cats and kids.The first works you see in this exhibition, which gathers together a selection of around fifty works comprising collages, drawings, paintings and videos produced between 1993 and 2007 discloses the captivating world of Frances Stark, an artist who has divided her time equally between art and writing, in other words a writer who has a regular practice as an artist. Stark takes writing, the act of reading and the voice as starting points for her visual works. In them she incorporates phrases taken from very diverse sources, often literary texts, which undergo operations of repetition, reproduction, fragmentation and juxtaposition with other visual elements.



ENGLAND (INGLATERRA)

Two guides in a gallery. Two lovers with a lifestyle to maintain. Two hearts beating eight thousand miles apart. Translation. Transaction. A transplantation. ENGLAND is the story of a search for a new heart. It’s a story about a life saved and an illness overcome at any cost. It’s a tour through spaces and across borders: from an art gallery to a jam factory, from Lisbon to Osaka, from a hospital bed to a hotel room. It’s a tour to the end of the world. Taking place in Gallery 2 within an exhibition of work by Frances Stark, the play continues Tim Crouch’s fascination with the nature of the theatrical experience; the communication of an idea from actor to audience – and back again.

tarantino dress up party

We're throwing a party this saturday in our house called "tarantino's dress up party". Everybody has to dress up like a character from a tarantino movie. I'm desperatly searching for a "Stuntman Mike"- outfit, let's hope I find something. So everyone in Lisbon, be there, everyone in Belgium, wait for the pictures.

masquerade

Right now i'm working on a new movie, wich is gonna be called 'masquerade'. I'm not gonna go into any further details about the storyline but it's basically about being yourself instead of hiding behind a 'mask'. I still have to shoot many scenes but the footage i had looked so damn cool i couldn't wait to start editing this stuff. So here are a few screenshots from the first part of this new short-film.

page-fillers

Here are some typographical page-fillers i made last night. They act as some kind of decoration for a paper i wrote about serigraphy artists. Nothing great but it serves the reason i made them for.

another sleepless night

Well I just dragged my sorry ass thru another sleepless night, It happend alot these last few weeks, finishing works in the middle of the night while drinking coffees and smoking cigarettes. Even though my level of production raises alot after 12 o'clock, It happened a little to much according to my mental state, but it'll be the last time, cause tomorrow (well in about 3 hours) my final evaluation starts, wich coinsides with my last 15 days in Portugal. It's definitely gonna be strange leaving this mesmerising country, and everything i learned to know and appreciate in it, behind. With all the works and the accumulation of evaluations the last two months, time really flew right by. But let's keep it on the bright side, i still have 2 weeks, so that's plenty of time to spend some quality time between me and Portugal, the country i learned to love. By the way , the evaluations went pretty good i must say. I was able to finish everything on shedule and I received nothing but excellent grades. Underneath i will post a shitload of stuff I made; all part of a campaign i designed for 'always' (yes, the sanitary pad stuff-thing-business). The idea was to have a starterspack for teenagers, with a bunch of different pads, a guide and a present, all wrapped up in a pretty box. I will post some more works in the next couple of days , aldo i can't post the movies or multimedia projects, you will hear from it soon.


poster design

the box to put all the stuff in

the packages for the pads

a lovely present :)

folder (to fold obviously)

a bit of everything

Here are some random pictures from the last few weeks, it's a bit of everything, like the usual on this blog. I finally took some pictures of 'dikkepoep', a cute cat i bought a few months ago as a present for mena and her roommates (i personally suggested this most flattering name). I also included a few pictures of Alicia's farewell-party, she returned to Polen this saturday, like many other fellow erasmus- students starting to wave Lisbon goodbye to return to their home country. she will be missed.
















a heavenly breakfast



milene working at school











wooden saxophone i bought on the street

a lovely cat called dikkepoep





dikkepoep gazing at those stinky pigeons



carnival in Lisbon, starting tonight

mena asked for a tattoo, she got it!






alicja's farewell-party: