Based on the phrase «My Body Is Your Body», a reinterpretation by Rui Órfão based on the work of Ernesto de Sousa, the Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra launches a challenge to the artistic community, from which it will select three new artistic projects which will coexist at CAPC Headquarters for three months.
The exhibition, which will be part of CAPC's official program, will last three months, opening on October 7th, and ending on December 30th. Participation is free. Applications until July 12th.
The results will be communicated in July. A fee of €500 and a maximum value of €1500 will be allocated for the production of each of the three projects.
“Your Body Is My Body”
«Your Body Is My Body» is a designation created by Ernesto de Sousa to group a series of actions, performances and exhibitions. This cycle includes graphic, photographic and filmic production, poetic texts and mixed-media works created between 1972 and 1988, including Luiz Vaz 73, Revolution My Body nr. 2, Tu Cuerpo Es Mi Cuerpo / Mi Cuerpo Es Tu Cuerpo, Identificación Con Tu Cuerpo, Olympia, Tradição como Aventura.
Ernesto de Sousa (Lisbon, 18 April 1921 – 6 October 1988) was one of the most complex and active figures of his time, a prolific multidisciplinary artist and an avid promoter of synergies between generations of artists from the first and second half of the 20th century. Defender of experimental and free artistic expression, he dedicated himself to the study, dissemination and practice of the arts, such as curating, criticism and essay writing, photography, cinema and theater.
By proposing the celebration of Robert Filliou's Art Anniversary (Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra, 1974), Ernesto de Sousa anticipated the Carnation Revolution and contradicted Portugal's peripheral position in Europe. The exhibition “Alternativa Zero” (Galeria Nacional de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, 1977) summarizes his project to create a Portuguese avant-garde in aesthetic and ideological dialogue with its international counterparts.
The CAPC Headquarters is located in a group of rented houses, from the 1930s of the 20th century, located next to the lower level of the Monumental Stairs, in Coimbra. The building was a founding space for the experience and multiple ways of being that characterized CAPC's fifty years of life. This is the physical place where the heroic antiquity of the CAPC resided. Originally designed as the residence of a bourgeois family, this building was transformed into an artistic laboratory.
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https://www.ernestodesousa.com/projectos/o-teu-corpo-e-o-meu-corpo
https://www.ernestodesousa.com/biografia
SOURCE: CAPC