He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in Visual Arts -Painting, from the same faculty where he completed his Masters in Contemporary Artistic Practices. He is a co-founder of the Galeria Panel, a co-founder and member of the collective Rua do Sol based in Porto, and a member of the CCOP board, where he was responsible for the cultural area between 2016 and 2023. During the same period, together with Francisco Babo and Joana Ribeiro, he created and managed Café CCOP, a café and cultural space in the city of Porto Together with Rick Lins he founded and runs Cabaré Brutal. In his artistic work, he has been developing proposals that address issues related to the world of work. In more recent works, he has questioned the concept of artistic production and its valorization. Born in Braga in 1986, he lives and works between Porto and Bregenz.

Theses title
DO WE STILL WORK? Sustainability and autonomy of artistic creation in independent production and presentation circuits

FCT reference
2024.00675.BD

Abstract
In the relationship between art and work, the labour uncertainty inherent to the nature of the artistic practice arises in its production through the balance between its autonomy and economic viability, which is felt especially in independent, generally precarious contexts. This project aims to explore the concept of work and its relationship with artistic making and independent artistic production and programming through its search for autonomy, self-subsistence, networking, creation of communities, and resistance to institutional practices. It aims to problematize the (im)possibilities of developing a less precarious independent artistic and programming practice, keeping the social role of art active to the detriment of the accumulation of commercial value. It will be a practical, theoretical investigation using a project-based research methodology through a space for community creation, sharing and reflection to develop a body of work that can be implemented in practice in two independent spaces in its artistic production and programming.

Supervision
João Sousa Cardoso (supervision) and Miguel Leal (co-supervision)

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