Expansive Territories – read here
Expansive Territories is the theme underlying a program of artistic research activities developed by OSSO – Associação Cultural, and coordinated by Diogo Alvim and Matilde Meireles since January 2020.
The programme included a series of activities including an Open Call for artist residencies appraised by Raquel Castro (Lisboa Soa, CICANT / Universidade Lusófona) and Pedro Rebelo (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast) with Diogo Alvim and Matilde Meireles (while members of OSSO). The residency programme hosted six national and international researchers and their outputs were presented in EIRA radio programme.
Expansive Territories programme also included various concerts and exhibitions, amongst which, a partnership with the research project Sounds Of Tourism (NOVA FCSH – INET-md); a concert at Lisboa Soa Festival, paper presentations at NCMM Contemporary Music Conference 2021 by Diogo Alvim with Matilde Meireles, and by Nuno Torres; as well as think tanks and an artistic research workshop mediated by Diogo and Matilde, led by Michael Schwab and including the participation of members of OSSO, researchers from the Research Lab in Design and Arts from ESAD (LIDA) and the Fine Arts master students (ESAD). Lastly, the programme hosted a final residency with researcher and architect Joana Braga whose output, E(n)xertos, features in the publication Expansive Territories, the small editorial project that culminates the programme.
The publication seeks to establish relationships between different perspectives and modes of operation in artistic research, as well as between different institutions, and counts with the contribution of four artists who were invited to develop essays around this theme: Michael Schwab, Joana Braga, Teresa Luzio and Sara Morais.
The project was developed further by the partnership with António Gomes and the Masters students in Graphic Design from ESAD.CR, with the final implementation by Rita Oliveira.
The publication was hosted in an editorial partnership by the UNESCO Chair in Management of Arts and Culture, Cities and Creativity of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, coordinated by Lígia Afonso.
Other activities in the Expansive Territories programme:
→ RESIDENTS 2021
The 2021 residency program focused on preparing the publication for which we invited researcher Joana Braga. Joana Braga worked on the theme proposed for the biennium, Expansive Territories, making an in-depth reflection on the local territory, its rural and urban configurations, communities and socio-spatial dynamics. This reflection took the final form of an essay entitled Grafts/ Excerpts (E(n)xertos), a contribution to a deeper framing of OSSO’s transdisciplinary project in the territorial context.
Outputs
– Three residencies at OSSO accompanied by Diogo Alvim, Matilde Meireles and Sara Morais;
– Radio conversation on Eira#6 with Diogo Alvim and Sara Morais in the context of the residency;
– E(n)xertos – essay included in the Expansive Territories publication.
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→ RESIDENTS OPEN CALL 2020
The outputs of these residences were presented in the form of an interview/ conversation and audio essays at Eira#3.
Resident Artists:
Beatriz Cantinho and Túlio Rosa
Claudio de Pina
Teresa Luzio
Victoria Lucas
Viviana González Mendez
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→ PRESENTATIONS
Creative projects that integrated / articulated with the Expansive Territories Programme:
Campo próximo (Matilde Meireles and Diogo Alvim)
– Paper presentation – Campo Próximo, NCMM Contemporary Music Conference, CESEM – Research Centre for the Sociology and Aesthetics Of Music, FCSH-NOVA, Lisbon Portugal | 07.07.2021
– Campo Próximo, Panteão Nacional, Concert – Lisboa Soa 2020 (Collaboration with the research project Sounds Of Tourism – FCSH-NOVA – INET-md) | 20.09.2020
– Concert at Osso Open Day #3 | Osso Studios | 01.25.2020
– Collective Osso Project ‘Invasor Abstracto #1’ (concert and installation versions) | São Francisco Convent, Coimbra (Portugal), 11.2019/ 01.2020
– LAMBDA: Sound and Visual Waves Showcase | Céu de Vidro – Parque D Carlos I, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) 15.12.20/18.12.20
– OSSO Colectivo Project ‘Invasor Abstracto #2’ | Municipal gallery of Montemor-o-Novo, (Portugal), 30.10.20/13.11.20
– Paper Presentation –
SPECTRUM: Autonomous Robotic Gesture and Processes of Deconstruction of a Human-Centred Performance Practice, NCMM Contemporary Music Conference, CESEM – Research Centre for the Sociology and Aesthetics Of Music, FCSH-NOVA, Lisbon Portugal | 07.07.2021
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→ ARTISTIC RESEARCH WORKSHOP (November 5th 2021)
With this online workshop, OSSO’s artistic research program intended to question and deepen artistic research methodologies, as well as frame creative processes as research processes. The workshop was guided by the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research, Michael Schwab, and had the participation of members of the OSSO collective, members of the Laboratory for Research in Design and Arts at ESAD (LIDA), and students of the Master in Fine Arts also from ESAD. Participants were invited to present a project, and the mechanisms inherent to its creation process. Based on the guest artist/researcher’s comments, a conversation took place between the various participants, stimulating artistic research processes. The event was also attended by other students from the Master, as well as other guests from the LIDA/ ESAD/ OSSO community.
Program
9:30-9:45 – Presentation Michael Schwab
9:45-11:00 – OSSO Projects (Ricardo Jacinto “Medusa” and Nuno Torres “Spectrum”) Pause 15’
11:15-12:30 – LIDA Projects (Teresa Luzio and Susana Gaudêncio)
[Lunch Break]
13:30 – 15:00 – Master Projects (Leonor Neves, Miguel Angelo Marques and Maria Von Hafe)
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→ EXPANSIVE TERRITORIES DESIGN EXERCISE – The design of the Expansive Territories publication was part of the curriculum of the Graphic Design Studio I curricular unit of the 1st year of the Master in Graphic Design at ESAD, mentored by coordinator António Gomes, with Diogo Alvim and Matilde Meireles.
