In Coimbra Montemor-o-Velho, 20 May > 31 December 2011
Contrary to those who, sitting in front of the TV, drink all that information that is bombarded with useless – and, in a futile attempt to defend them selvs, jump from channel to channel, from futility to futility,- the user of the Internet, jump from page to page, building an image of the world. One thought the world. For this, the world seems suddenly reduced to a few thousand pages that was stacked in his memory.
Unlike television, which is a passive spectator of the action, the user of the Internet, acts at will, jumping from page to page looking for something. Even if he doesn’t find anything, he built a mental journey, a journey through the virtual world. This trip, that has been sheded in the corners of your memory, loosing images, sounds, words, short phrases, like small cards forgotten in a drawer are waiting to be re-discovered.
These are the forgotten memories of those virtual trips that FONLAD Festival seeks to recover from the memory of artists, challenging them to produce art projects based on these experiences.
Shipping Minds
Icon Gallery, 14 May to 28 June 2011
International exhibition of photography and digital painting. For this effect will be appointed a curater who, in partnership with the direction of the festival will select the proposed works by artists under the international contest.
Selected artists: Adrian Lis (Romania), Alfonso Caputo (Italy), Ana Picasso (Germany), Andrea Vannini (Italy), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Benvinda Araújo (Portugal), Chiara Schiaratura (Italy), Elizabeth Machado (France), Jorge Simões (Portugal), José Higino (Portugal), Nicola Vernizzi (Italy), Nuno Almeida (Portugal), Patrick Millard (USA), Rodrigo Miragaia (Portugal), Tahir Un (Turkey), Tom Campenhout (Netherlands).
FONLAD in Porto Santo’s Biennial, Madeira – Portugal
1 – 30 August 2011
Presentation at the Biennial part of the festival’s collection. Participating artists: Photography / Digital painting: Alfonso Caputo (Italy), Antonio Azenha (Portugal), Benvinda Araujo (Portugal), Boskizzi (Italy), Carola Blanco (Venezuela), Cecilia Urioste (Brazil), Elizabeth Machado (France), Fernando Graça / Penousal Machado (Portugal), Jeroen Holthius (Holland), Jorge Simões (Portugal), Katie Bush (USA), Laura Castanedo (Mexico), Maro (Chile), Marco Bonvini (Italy), Moskall (Poland), Oscar Poliotto (Argentina), Patrick Millard (USA), Paulo Corte Real (Portugal), Tatiana Santos (Portugal).
International Video Screenings: Anders Weberg (Sweden), Caterina Davinio (Italy), Gruppo Sinestético (Italy), Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay), Alysse Stepanion (USA), Arthur Tuoto (Brazil), Steven Hoskins (USA).
Portughese video art screenings: António Olaio, Fernando José Pereira, Francisco Queirós, João Pombeiro, José Maçâs de Carvalho, Margarida Paiva, Maria Lusitano, Paulo Mendes, Susana Mendes Silva, Vasco Araújo.
5 Video Instalations
Implementation of five video installations at five different places in Montemor-o-Velho.
Five festivals will be invited to submit a video installation project by one artist.
The projects will be presented in a single day on an event integrated with electronic Djays and Vjays, that wil take place at the Main Square, opposite to the town hall of the city.
The public would be concentrated in a particular space, guided by the areas of the instalations, culminating in the main square.
Apart from the above event will be projected videos of other festivals in the Wind Rose Art Space Center, in line with the schedule started in 2010.