Art Talk - Week 2
Lecture Series
Mário Caeiro is a Lisbon based curator, cultural programmer and designer. He has curated urban art festivals - Lisbon, Capital of Nothing (2001-2) and Luzboa–International Biennale on the Theme of Light in 2004 and 2006. In 2009 he was the director of SKYWAY’09, an art and astrophysics festival held in Torun, Poland, birthplace of Copernicus.
Since 1995, Mário has worked with hundreds of artists from all over the world in ongoing activities that depart from what he calls operative metaphors (The Soul, Pain, Nothing, Light). These form the conceptual core of his urban events where public art meets discursive practice.
This is a personal journey; it has become a rhetoric of critical art in public spaces, a platform where fundamental issues from literary and critical theory, urban design, cognitive science and art history have been interiorised into a dynamic curatorial approach to the urban context. Mário Caeiro’s main concern is to understand how to conceive art and to engage with it in the framework of projects where a post-modern conscience of the device is moderated against an ‘ethos of involvement and pathos of social grace’. This has become the background for an aesthetics of engagement/agency, transparency and participation that is testing the rules and limits of socially activated art practices and curatorship.
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