Filipa Oliveira+Miguel Amado

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No Soul for Sale Festival @ Tate Modern

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THE UNSURPASSABLE HORIZON

A project by Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado

No Soul for Sale – A Festival of Independents at Tate Modern, London

No Soul For Sale – A Festival of Independents

May 14 – 16, 2010

10 AM – 12 PM (May 16: 6 PM)

The Lisbon-based curatorial collective Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado is presenting “The Unsurpassable Horizon”, a project organized for NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents at Tate Modern, London. This project brings together works by Carla Cruz, Ruth Ewan, Runo Lagomarsino, and Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner. The works on view respond to, comment, and speculate on the potential of the communitarian ideal in contemporary society. This project thus addresses the social fabric in which both artists and non-profit organizations/curatorial collectives operate, considering consider the public sphere as an arena of individual participation in the collective future.

In one of the most acknowledged books by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperable Community (1982), he sets himself the task of redefining community beyond a cultural, economic and political dimension. To be operative, the community needs a substance, a sense of communion, and this is the intellectual framework that shapes “The Unsurpassable Horizon”. These artists deal with community as something that either has been disintegrated or that is in a process of rebuilding. Their practice thus reflects the entropic current state of affairs that Nancy encapsulates with his reference to the contemporary “unsurpassable horizon” of political, economic, and cultural regimes.

Cruz’s demoCRACY (2010) consists of a typical voting scene: a ballot box and two piles of ballots on each side of it. The ballots have a question addressed to the potential voter: “Would You Like To Participate?” Three possible answers are given: “Yes”; “No”; and “None of The Above”. What is not made clear is on what the viewer would be voting on. In addition, there are no pens available and the ballot box doesn’t even have a slot where one could insert the ballot. Alluding to the mixed feelings of hopelessness expectation of change through the electoral process, the artist examines issues of civic participation and citizenship in liberal democracies.

Ewan presents a series of drawings created between 2006 and 2009 that are available as stickers sold at cost price. These works are informed by a range of sources referencing several British socially radical groups. Among these organizations is The Plebs League, a political association inspired by Marxist ideals founded in 1908 at Ruskin College, Oxford, which attempted to create a brand new educational system, free from capitalist ideology. The drawings were made by young people, aged 12 to 14, as a result of a series of one-to-one workshops done by the artist. In this learning context, she examined how ideas are disseminated and systems of belief are created, thus addressing the ideological dimension of any educational process.

Lagomarsino’s Notion of Conflict, Dance of the Piñata (2004) explores the dynamics of oppression and resistance by alluding to an ancient, popular Latin American game – the Piñata – that was used by European colonizers to “Christianize” indigenous populations. In this video, a blindfolded male character attempts to hit a piñata figure shaped as a human body dressed in a military uniform. After finally succeeding it with extreme violence, the image slowly fades to black, leaving the viewer to ponder what happens after. The work reflects the era of colonization as the institutionalization of state violence and the subsequent means of collective opposition and cultural hybridization that accompanied the de-colonization of Latin America.

Lindner & Steinbrenner’s Start Spreading the News (2010) consists of a printer connected to the Internet continuously printing on A4 sheets of paper everything that is worth being reported by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading press agency. This device is located on top of a ladder, so every minute 2/3 sheets of paper will tumble into the ground, each containing absolutely unfiltered news from somewhere in the world. These are words that have no feedback from the audience, allegorically replicating the way most information is circulated on a global scale. Through the poetic image of “falling news” that they created, the artists question the power of the media in the shaping of the current visions of the world.

NO SOUL FOR SALE

NO SOUL FOR SALE is a festival of independents that brings together the most exciting not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and underground enterprises from around the world. Neither a fair nor an exhibition, NO SOUL FOR SALE is a spontaneous celebration of the individuals and groups that live outside the market and that animate contemporary art. To celebrate Tate Modern's 10th anniversary, the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE, organized by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan and Massimiliano Gioni, and produced by Tate Modern, is bringing together 70 of the world's most innovative independent art spaces and teams to take over the Turbine Hall. The festival will fill the iconic space with an eclectic mix of cutting-edge shows and events on 14-16 May 2010.

Participants in the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE include: 2nd Cannons Publications (Los Angeles), 98weeks research project (Beirut), Alternative Space LOOP (Seoul), Arrow Factory (Beijing), ArtHub Asia (Shanghai/Bangkok/Beijing), Artis - Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York/Tel Aviv), Artists Space (New York), Artspeak (Vancouver), Auto Italia South East (London), Ballroom (Marfa), Barbur (Jerusalem), Black Dogs (Leeds), Capacete Entertainment (Rio de Janeiro), casa tres patios (Medellín), Cinématèque de Tanger (Tanger), cneai= (Paris-Chatou), Collective Parasol (Kyoto), Dispatch (New York), e-flux (Berlin), Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel - 220 jours (Paris), Embassy (Edinburgh), Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado (Lisbon), FLUXspace (Philadelphia), FormContent (London), Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project (Berlin), Green Papaya Art Projects (Manila), Hell Gallery (Melbourne), Hermes und der Pfau (Stuttgart), i-cabin (London), Intoart (London), K48 Kontinuum (New York), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík), L'appartement 22 (Rabat), Latitudes (Barcelona), Le commissariat (Paris), Le Dictateur (Milan), Light Industry (New York), Lucie Fontaine (Milan), lugar a dudas (Cali), Mousse (Milan), Next Visit (Berlin), New Jerseyy (Basel), Not An Alternative (New York), no.w.here (London), Or Gallery (Vancouver), Oregon Painting Society (Portland), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Peep-Hole (Milan), PiST/// (Istanbul), Post-Museum (Singapore), PSL [Project Space Leeds] (Leeds), Rhizome (New York), Sala-Manca & Mamuta (Jerusalem), Sàn Art (Ho Chi Minh City), Scrawl Collective (London), studio1.1 (London), Swiss Institute / Contemporary Art (New York), The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles), The Museum of Everything (London), The Royal Standard (Liverpool), The Suburban (Chicago), The Western Front Society (Vancouver), Thisisnotashop (Dublin), Torpedo - supported by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), Tranzit.cz (Prague), Viafarini DOCVA (Milan), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Western Bridge (Seattle), White Columns (New York) and Y3K (Melbourne).

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Artists' Lectures/performances
18 Feb at 8pm - Abinadi Meza

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Curators' Talk
21 Feb at 3pm
Virgina Torrente + Marlon de Azambuja

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Curators' Talk
20 Feb at 5pm
Tania Pardo + Antonio Ballester Moreno

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Curators' talks
19th Feb at 5pm
Blanca de la Torre + Avelino Sala

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Curators' Talks
18th Feb at 5pm
Filipa Oliveira + Noé Sendas

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At the Fair

Sculpture by Noé Sendas

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ON THE TABLE
Curated by Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado
Commisioned for the Curators’ Desk at Just Madrid Art Fair

JUST MADRID
Stand C at the Curators’ Desk
18 - 21 February 2010
Opening: 18th February 2010 at 4pm (invitation only)

Just Madrid
La Lonja e Nave de Terneras
Paseo de la Chopera, 10
Madrid

Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado present “On the Table”, a commissioned project for the Curators’ Desk section at Just Madrid Art Fair. This Project is inspried in the thought of Bertrand Russel who stated that “In order to know anything at all about the table, we must know truths connecting it with things with which we have acquaintance”. “On the Table” means that if an idea has been put forward, it has been made available for public debate. Being the “table” an object, “on the” suggests the symbolic dimensions that have always been associated to it, which include eating and drinking, working, and talking. These functions are emphasized by Russell and encapsulate the curators’ proposal.
“On the Table” consists of a series of daily conversations by invited curators and artists as well as a series of “lecture-performances” delivered by artists selected from an international open-call. Transforming itself into a meeting hub for the discussion of present-day themes, this project involves agents and visitors in a critical platform that evokes the worldview of radical transformative artistic and political pedagogies.

The schedule of curators talks will be:
Thursday, 18th Feb. at 5pm – Filipa Oliveira + Noé Sendas
Friday, 19th Feb at 5pm - Blanca de la Torre + Avelino Sala
Saturday, 20th Feb at 5pm - Tania Pardo + Antonio Ballester Moreno
Sunday, 21st Feb. at 3pm - Virginia Torrente + Marlon de Azambuja

Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado are a Portuguese curatorial team founded in 2004. They have organized different solo shows series in Lisbon with emerging artists, designers and architects, including the program of the non-profit organization Espaço AC and of two project rooms at Carlos Carvalho Gallery. In 2009, they curated “If You Don’t Know What the South Is It’s Simply Because You Are From the North” as part of “No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents” at the X Initiative in New York, and “Impossible Exchange” commissioned for Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair in London. With these projects, they have shifted their focus from the traditional exhibition format to critically engaging, discursive-, process- and participatory-based events that examine the relation of aesthetics and ethics within contemporary art. Parallel to their joint practice, they both work individually as curators and critics in Portugal and internationally.

Throughout the Fair

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In Hostess, Joana Bastos is taking on the persona and duties of a gallery assistant at the booth for the duration of the Frieze Art Fair.

Video documentation of Joana Bastos' performance as Hostess

Sunday 18 October

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In Studies in Leadership – The Review, Fia Backström is working with a voice coach and a group of art critics to assist these writers to mount a compelling speech of previously written reviews that comment on agency and empowerment.

Saturday 17 October

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Daytoday is the culmination of an ongoing project in which Carolina Caycedo barters personal possessions and services in order o survive. At Frieze Art Fair, Caycedo is showing documentation and trading commemorative patches and copies of a publication about the project.

Friday 16 October

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Brina Thurston’s Open Call consists of an open submission offer to artists that are not included in the 2009 Frieze Art Fair. All the submitted proposals are being presented at the booth for one day only through both a data show and a live review inspired by the antiques roadshows.

Thursday 15 October

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Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle launch Time Bank, a trading scheme that bypasses traditional currency. The unit of Time Bank is an ‘hour note’, which can be sued to swap goods and services with a worldwide network of participants. On view are currency prototypes created by Aranda, Vidokle and a group of artists and designers invited by them.

Wednesday 14 October

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Carey Young is signing a limited edition of Donorcard – a version of the wallet-sized British organ donor card. Visitors are able to take a card for free but must countersign it in order for it to become art, a status that will last only while both signatories are alive.

Impossible Exchange - Frieze Art Fair 2009

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IMPOSSIBLE EXCHANGE
Curated by Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado
Commissioned for Frieze Projects

Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair
October 15 – 18, 2009

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park
London NW1
www.friezeartfair.com

The Lisbon-based curatorial team Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado is presenting “Impossible Exchange”, a project commissioned for Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair that plays on the transactional nature of the art fair. “Impossible Exchange” comprises works by Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, Fia Backström, Joana Bastos, Carolina Caycedo, Brina Thurston and Carey Young.

Exchange is central to everyday life, permeating all social fields – from the biological to the legal to the aesthetic. In the art market, of which the fair is an epiphenomenon, exchange plays the key role. This framework inspires “Impossible Exchange”, a project commissioned for Frieze Projects and curated by the Lisbon-based curatorial team Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado. Its title is borrowed from an expression coined by French theorist Jean Baudrillard, who once wrote that “Everything which sets out to exchange itself for something runs up, in the end, against the Impossible Exchange Barrier.” This project consists of a series of daily participatory events that play on the transactional nature of the art fair. Each day (including the VIP preview on October 14th), artists Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, Fia Backström, Joana Bastos, Carolina Caycedo, Brina Thurston and Carey Young orchestrate different performances and displays at the booth of “Impossible Exchange”. Mining institutional critique, community-based movements, self-organization traditions and activism, these proposals address the production of symbolic value in the “age of questioned capitalism” – an expression suggested by the current global financial crisis. Through the socially engaged practice of these artists, “Impossible Exchange” establishes a counter-public sphere that radically envisions change on the economic, political and cultural levels.

Frieze Projects is a programme of artists’ commissions and other projects organized annually at Frieze Art Fair. It is curated by Neville Wakefield and this year includes seven new works as well as The Cartier Award and collaborations with 2009 partner institutions and curatorial teams CAC Vilnius (Lithuania) and Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado (Portugal).

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen

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Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Mis United, 2008
Performance, 30 minutes

Miguel Palma

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Miguel Palma
Untitled, 2009
Aluminium stall, sandpaper roll, lamps, electric connectors, power transformers, monitor, DVD player, speakers, several different tripods, and light projectors; video, color, sound, 4 min. 38 sec.

Carlos Motta

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Carlos Motta
Brief History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America since 1946, 2005-2009
Newsprint

Mads Lynnerup

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Mads Lynnerup
Clock, 2008-09
Performance, 60 min.

Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner

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Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, performed by Martin Seck
Instant Prayer, 2005-09
Aluminium boxes and sound modules

Runo Lugomarsino

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Runo Lugomarsino
If You Don’t Know What the South Is, It’s Simply Because You Are From the North, 2008
Offset print

Carolina Caycedo

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Carolina Caycedo
What Changed?, 2009
Sown nylon

Julieta Aranda

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Julieta Aranda
Newstar, 2008
Ink on tabloid newspaper

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If you don’t know what the South is it’s simply because you are from the North
Curated by Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado

NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents
June 24 – 28, 2009
Opening: June 23, 2009, from 6pm to 9pm

X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
http://www.x-initiative.org

The Lisbon-based curatorial duo Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado is presenting “If you don’t know what the South is it’s simply because you are from the North”, a project curated for NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents, organized by the X Initiative in New York City. This project includes works by Julieta Aranda, Carolina Caycedo, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Runo Lagomarsino, Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, Mads Lynnerup, Carlos Motta and Miguel Palma. The works on view respond, comment, and speculate on globalization, displacement and identity on the current international art scene.

Lisbon, June 15th – X is a not-for-profit initiative of the global contemporary art community that will exist for one year and present exhibitions in four phases. X will feature durational artist interventions, site-specific projects, historical in-depth exhibitions, one-night performances, lectures and weekly events. Questions posed in the form of programming will address relevant and pressing issues pertaining to the changing landscape of art.

Held at X from June 24 through June 28, NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents will bring together the most exciting, creative and respected not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and independent enterprises from around the world that contribute to the international art scene by inventing new strategies for the distribution of information and by supporting a diverse cultural program.

X has invited 38 organizations and teams to travel to New York City to present themselves, their programs and the artists they support. Among the participants is Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado, a curatorial duo based in Lisbon devoted to the presentation of the work of emerging and mid-career international artists, both through exhibition programs and other projects in different contexts in Portugal and abroad. For NO SOUL FOR SALE, Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado have curated the project that includes works by Julieta Aranda, Carolina Caycedo, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Runo Lagomarsino, Lotte Lindner & Till Steinbrenner, Mads Lynnerup, Carlos Motta and Miguel Palma.

The title of the project presented by Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado is borrowed from Runo Lagomarsino’s work If you don’t know what the South is it’s simply because you are from the North, 2008. The project considers the cultural geopolitics involved in the invitation made to a Lisbon-based curatorial team to show in New York in the context of a “festival of independents”. The works on view comprise sculpture, performance and text, and respond, comment, and speculate on globalization, displacement, and identity on the current international art scene.