“The Museum as Performance”

Gustavo Ciríaco, Sally Golding + Spatial, Ramiro Guerreiro, Jassem Hindi & Keith Hennessy & Eoghan Ryan, Pedro Lopes, Mel O’Callaghan, Quarto (Anna Mesquita and Leandro Zappala), Cally Spooner

The Museum as Performance is a programme that recognizes the growing significance of performance in contemporary art.

For its second edition Serralves presents ten new performance works, most of them national premieres, by artists working in music, expanded-cinema, live-actions and conference-performances across the spaces of the Serralves Museum and Park.  

The Museum as Performance is curated by Cristina Grande, Serralves programmer of dance and performance, Pedro Rocha, Serralves programmer of music, and Ricardo Nicolau, curator of the Museum.

About the artists:

Gustavo Ciríaco
Gustavo Ciríaco is a Lisbon-based artist and choreographer from Rio de Janeiro. Ciriaco’s work, encompassing multimedia staged work, urban walks and convivial open-air projects, has been presented in major national and international festivals: Tanz im August, Berlin; Paris Quartier d’Été; Prague International Festival; CENEART, Mexico City; Panorama, Rio de Janeiro.  

Sally Golding        
Sally Golding is a British multimedia artist combining film projection, lighting and sonic composition to create expanded cinema performances and participatory installations. She has performed and exhibited at Tate Britain, London; Digital Culture Centre, Mexico; CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid.   

Ramiro Guerreiro
Ramiro Guerreiro is an artist and performer born in Lisbon. In his performative work he often appropriates and deconstructs modernist vocabulary of architecture. Guerreiro’s work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

Jessem Hindi, Keith Henessy & Eoghan Ryan
Jessem Hindi is a Berlin-based artist who was born in Saudi Arabia. He has been involved in a series of collectives focusing on political strategies in performance. His work has been shown at the Kampnagel, Hamburg; Black Box, Oslo; American Realness, New York; HAU and Sophiensaele, Berlin; Impulstanz, Vienna; La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.

Keith Hennessy is a performer and choreographer born in Sudbury, Canada. Rooted in dance, Hennessy’s work embodies a hybrid of performance art, music, visual and conceptual art, circus, and ritual.

London-based artist Eoghan Ryan was born in Dublin. He received the 2012 Nina Stewart Artist Award and residency with South London Gallery/SPACE.

Pedro Lopes
Pedro Lopes was born in Cascais, Portugal. Currently based in Berlin, he is an artist and computer scientist who has developed an extensive vocabulary for the use of turntables as music instruments. He has played in venues and events including Transmediale festival, Berlin; Casa da Música, Porto; Fylkingen, Stockholm.

Mel O’Callaghan  
Installation and video artist Mell O’Callaghan was born in Sydney, Australia. Her video and performance works focus on the absurd repetition of life’s lack of climax or resolve. O’Callaghan’s work has been exhibited at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourn; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam.

Quarto
Created in 2003, Quarto is a collaborative project between Swedish artist Anna Mesquita and Brazilian artist Leandro Zappala based in Stockholm, Sweden. Their performances are open and in perpetual motion—the encounter with the audience producing resonances leading to new unfoldings. Quarto’s work has been presented at Museum of Modern Art Stockholm, MDT and Giljotin Theatre, Stockholm; Tanze Messe, Dusseldorf; Dansehallerne, Copenhagen; Inkonst, Mälmo.

Cally Spooner  
Cally Spooner is an artist and writer born in London. Her works comprise plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the rhetoric of speech. Her recent live productions have been commissioned and presented by Tate Modern, London; Performa 13, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the High Line, New York.