Born in Portugal, lives and works in London
Education
2000/01
Post Graduate Bauhaus Certificate, Bauhaus, Bauhaus Kolleg, Germany
1991/93
Master of Arts, Emporia State University, USA
1990/91
Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicacao Visual, Fine Arts, Lisboa, Portugal
1985/89
Universidade de Lisboa (Social psychology), Lisboa, Portugal
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
2002
Contemplation Room, Overgaden Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Collective Juke Box 4.0, MAMCO-Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
City Stripping, GAK: Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Event City, Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria
Event City, Mousonturm, Frankfurt/ Main, Germany
Investigating the Urban, Interactivos a la Carta, Sonar 2002, Centre de Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Other Routes, 126a Front Street Warehouse, Brooklyn, US
Soft, Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA), London, UK
Saturday, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
2001
Architecture as Staging, Event City II , The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
Brandscapes_Event City, Hochschule Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Gartensalon 2001: Adonis Meets Dionysis, Plattenwerk, Dessau, Germany
In the Event of Emergency, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
Polyphony, Living Art Museum, Reikjavik, Iceland
Space And Time In Megalopolis, The City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Urban Detours, Event City III, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
2000
24 Frames of Separation, Art-Frame, London, UK
Event-City I, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, Germany
Europa Express, London Biennale, 291 Gallery, London, UK
PlateAudios, The Sewing Circle, London, UK
SQUALP [Systems Questioning Art/Life Project], The Fishing Museum, Brighton, UK
1999
Cultures of Resistance, South London Posse, Tower Bridge Squat, London, UK
Homeless project, Mota Gallery, London, UK
Mixed up, The Void Gallery, London, UK
New Networks, PVA, Bridport, Wales, UK
Non Place Urban Realm, South London Gallery, London, UK
Squat/ Shop, Project Created Space, Whiteleys Shopping Centre, London, UK
Temporaryhomes, 198 Gallery, London, UK
1998
An Indexing Of Home: Surveying The Local, Uncovering The Global - An Event For The First Opening Of Homeless, 30 Paris House, London, UK
Temporary Homes: Beyond Perception, Molly Huggins Centre, London, UK
Women, Work and Money: Plan And Proposal For Future Work, Museum of Womens Art, KPMG Building, London, UK
Footy & Fluzzies, with Luise Vormittag, The Brahm Gallery, Photo 98/ The Fringe Festival, Leeds, UK
Survey For A Public Monument, with Tine Hubbert, Camberwell Arts Week, London, UK
Where We're Coming From, with Helmut And Johanna Kandl, An Event For The Second Opening Of Homeless, London, UK
Curatorial Projects
2002
PlateAudio: A plateau for audio activity with ©Inhabit, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Sally Chapman, Simon Richardson and David Maguire
2001
M4 - UEC: An Artist's-Run Urban Entertainment Centre, with Cecilia Berkovic, Alexander Vereschak, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Armando Montilla Jr., DJ K-Risk, 'Urban Detours /Event City III' Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
2000
Urban Memory and Spectacle (with Montse Romani), presentation at the Urban Salon, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
RKD-K [arca-de/de-cay]: The Arcade Project, The Brixton Arcade and The Trade Apartement, with Space Hijackers, Acces Local, Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, Anthony Iles / What we Call Progress, Anna Best, Eduardo Padilha, Ella Gibbs/belt: a space in between, Gail Olding, Gustav Metzger, Helga Oskars, Jacob Jurgensen, ©Inhabit, Janne Schaffer, Jorn Ebner, Katarina Sevic / PP, Melina Berkenwald, Neil Chapman, Oreet Ashery, okpaul (Unevolved), Pino Boresta / Oreste, Rayna Nadeem and Kathy Williams / MixedUp, Ronee Hui, Sasha Costanza-Chock /splice, Syndicate, Snorkel and Zeigam Azivov, London, UK,
1999
Moot Point:Bobo's Gallery, with Emma Hedditch, Rayna Nadeem, Angela Byrne, b+k, Nicoline Van Haarskamp, Maritxu Ontondu, Helga Oskardottir, Yoko Hata, Jeanette Thyrson, Anna Lucas, Betina Wilhelm, Oreet Ashery, Miho and Kathy Williams, London, UK
Homeless Seminars. Participation in the organisation and facilitation of the seminar's programme at the Mota Gallery with curator David Goldenberg: What Prevents Change in Contemporary Culture?; An Examination of Interactive, Participatory and Collaborative Methodologies; The Use of Art as Social Work; Developing a Range of Models of the Exhibition Event; An Overview of a Concept of Post-Autonomy, London
Selected Bibliography: Publications and Essays
2001
Regina Bittner, Urban Detours / Event City III, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
Britta Schatz, 'City Stripping', die tageszeitung, Kai Vockler, Time and Space in Megalopolis, The City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2000
Jennifer Burnham, 'Women with Attitude', SMART, issue 3, Spring
Brian Holmes, Le mode de diffusion, Spring
Paula Roush, 'Msdm- collaborative arts unit, in- The non place urban realm,' Variant, issue 10
1999
Oreet Ashery, 'De/Territorialized Practices', Living in a Material World, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Liz Farrelly, 'Peckham Calling', Blueprint, July/August
Emma Hedditch, 'We could have been neighbours', Manedsskrift for kunst og kunstrelateret materiale, no.52