APRIL 21 and 22, 2021
Liliana Coutinho (Lisbon, 1977) is a curator, researcher and adviser of the program of Talks and Debates at Culturgest Foundation, in Lisbon, and invited teacher at Social and Human Sciences Faculty at New University of Lisbon. She worked with Teatro Municipal Maria Matos as assistant’s director and curator of public programs and talks. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Sciences of Art, from University Paris 1, and is a researcher at I.H.C. – FCSH/UNL. She co-edited Paisagens Imprevistas (2020) and The Zero Alternative: Ernesto de Sousa and some other aesthetic operators in Portuguese art and poetry from the 1960s onwards; she published "The delicate thread of the common", in André Guedes, Essays for an Anthology, Ed. Kunsthalle Lissabon and Cura Books (Rome), 2016 and “L'objet: ni un fétiche ni une preuve, mais un don pour la performance" (2014), in Performance Vie d’Archive, Paris : Ed. Les Presses du Réel, 2014. She was Head of Education at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum (Porto, Portugal).
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NOVEMBER 27, 2020
Samuel Silva is a visual artist and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto. His projects have been exploring relationships between art practice and the social context. Since 2005 he has been developing a multidisciplinary work involving different media such as sculpture, photography, video, installation, drawing and artist books. He graduated in 2006 in the field of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where after two years he ended a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art Practices. He concluded a PhD in 2015 in the field of Art and Education, researching participatory practices in contemporary art. He is also integrated researcher in the Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society (I2ADS) at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in the fields of art education and mediation in cultural spaces linked to contemporary art. Occasionally, he has been curating exhibitions in the independent circuit. Lives and works in Porto.
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NOVEMBER 20 and 21, 2019
Catherine Quéloz is an art historian, researching the transformation of situated artistic practices, “minor” histories, the effects of social history and gender and post-colonial theories in art and the cultural writing of history. She is the co-founder (with Liliane Schneiter) of the CCC Master’s Program (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies) and the Pre-doctorate/PhD Program at Haute École d’Art et de Design, in Geneva (2000-2015). Quéloz is honorary professor at HES-SO (Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale) and a consultant for research projects on emergent cultures and the education economy. She supervises numerous PhD theses on artistic practice. She is a member of RPDP-A (a platform for doctoral artistic research), an artistic research NGO. In 2014, Catherine Quéloz received the Swiss art prize Méret Oppenheim.
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Liliane Schneiter is an art historian specialized in Medieval and Modern Art, and a professor at HES-SO (Haute École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale). She has taught in numerous institutions, universities and alternative spaces. Her research areas include critical theory of history (Walter Benjamin, the Frankfurt School, contemporary transformations of sovereignty), moral and political history in continental and analytic philosophy, and the potential of networked art for civic action. She is the co-founder (with Catherine Quéloz) of the Master’s Program CCC (Critical Curatorial Cybermedia Studies) and the Pre-doctorate/PhD seminar at Haute École d’Art et de Design, in Geneva (2000-2015). She is a consultant for research projects on emerging cultures and the education economy. She is a member of RPDP-A (a platform for doctoral artistic research), an artistic research NGO.
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