Cabedal
Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon
Exhibition open until 31 December 2012

The exhibition is selected from the work of recent graduates of the MA Fine Art programme at Manchester School of Art and their tutors.

'Cabedal' takes its name from the Portuguese word meaning leather, specifically thick and worked leather – the kind of used for shoes or saddles - a word that describes a strong and resistant material, made to last. Idiomatically the word means wealth or strength, but here cabedal is a reference to a long lasting mark left on things that outlive their author.

Pavel Büchler’s reclaimed paintings, for example, are taken from piles of rejected canvases at the end of the summer term in art schools. They are subjected to a cycle in a domestic washing machine, scrapped and peeled back to their raw un-primed state, and the fragments and peelings of paint are then reapplied.

The surface of these objects reflect not just the artistic practice in the making of them, but the many – ethical - choices that went into making them. These surfaces are a charged site of reinvention, a thick skin – as the Portuguese would say – cabedal.

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21st Century Rural Museum
Palácio das Artes, Porto (Nov. 2012) Ciclo de Artes Plásticas,
Coimbra - fevereiro, 2013; Lisboa - May 2013
then moves on to Zagreb, São Paulo, Naples, Corsica and Madrid.

"Most people in Idanha-a-Nova are 65 or older and they are the ones preserving some of Portugal’s oldest traditions".

Thinking it crucial to record and document these traditions in order to prevent cultural genocide, Cristina Rodrigues proposes the creation of the ‘21st Century Rural Museum’, a travelling exhibition bringing rural culture to major urban centres in countries undergoing a similar process of depopulation and desertification.

For the exhibition Cristina gathered contributions from artists and writers on their reactions to desertification. In spite of the contributors' different professional backgrounds, their work has much in common.

This event is organised by MIRIAD - Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art & Design and by Idanha-a-Nova Municipality.

YouTube: 21st Century Rural Museum | Website: 21st Century Rural Museum

When we meet again (introduced as friends)
by Me and the Machine
Teatro São Luíz; Sala de Ensaios
04, 05, 06, 07 Dec; 2100 - 2330 (ongoing sessions);
1 spectator each 10 minutes
EUR 3.00 only price; Support: British Council
National premiere

One-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you and your invisible friend. Video filmed from a first person perspective is played on video goggles, replacing your point of view by that of a performer in the screen. When you are prompted to look down upon your body, what you see issomeone else’s.

“When I first met you, you could see me but I couldn’t see you…”, the invisible woman recounts. When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old forgotten dance, an ocean, a flavor and me.

Video filmed from a first person perspective is played on video goggles, replacing your point of view by that one of a performer in the screen. When you are prompted to look down upon your body, you see someone else’s. The brain is tricked into the illusion of being inside a new body and in a foreign space, through which you move and encounter mysterious invisible presences

Inclusive design
The widest possible audience, irrespective of age or ability...

The Portugal 24hr Inclusive Design Challenge took place in Lisbon on 21, 22 and 23 June 2012.

In the Challenge, each of the five multidisciplinary teams were given a challenge that they had to solve within the 24 hours of the project.

Each team had a designer partner who had a physical or visual disability and who acted, regardless their education or training, both as a driver to identify the problem as well as a consultant in the validation of each project's solution.

The event was organised by "Design Includes YOU", the British Council Portugal and the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Departamento de Planeamento de Mobilidade e Transportes).

FashionHub Guimarães/British Council YCE Fashion Award
Instituto de Design, Guimarães
November, 2130

The closing ceremony has a parade featuring the collections of designers João Pedro Filipe (see below), Mariana Morgado, Maria Azevedo, Ricardo Andrez and Rita Afonso Lee.

Jaão was one of the six designers selected by Fashion Hub Guimarães European City of Culture 2012 who exhibited their collections at Somerset House, the main site of London Fashion Week 2012. He was designer selected to represent Portugal in the The British Council’s Young Creative Fashion Entrepreneur Award.