WORK ON PROCESS

Solo Show at Eletricidade Estética

2012-01-23T08:59:00.000-08:00

Solo show

' Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique'

part of

Masters of Kung Fu

06-07-08 of October

Master Pedro Oliveira

'O Golpe do Leão'

13-14-15 of October

Master Isabel Pina Ferreira

'Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique'

20-21-22 of October

Master André Bastos

'O Sopro da Doninha'

27-28-29 of October

Master Susana Borges

隱形

Eletricidade Estética

Caldas da rainha

Portugal

Chelsea Show

2011-09-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

www.isabelpinaferreira.com

new stuff (on going)

2011-08-07T05:14:00.000-07:00

Some of the works will be exhibited soon,

text and better pics will come.

MOBILE PHOTOS

Chelsea MA Fine Art Postcards Auction

2011-07-12T01:21:00.000-07:00

2011-06-26T16:26:00.000-07:00

Photography by Eun Sook Choi

Some States of Being

2011-03-16T08:56:00.000-07:00

Some adventures in the wooden House

2011-02-19T06:08:00.000-08:00

Photo by Alexandra Ferreira

The Adventures in a wooden house has it own blog now !

Have a look

http://someadventuresinthewoodenhouse.blogspot.com

The wooden House was a shed , 3 meters by 3 meters square and 4 meters high with wheels. Was made By Jing a Korean ex PG Dip student at Chelsea College of Art and Design last year. His intention was to create a mobile gallery in order to visit disable people mostly in rural areas, so in that way they could experience and see artworks.

This wooden house was going to be taken apart on 5th of February 2011. After knowing the shed was going to be dismantled by the college, the negotiating started, in order to keep the wooden house. The College gave more two weeks and for that happen the students who were negotiating had to be responsible for the destruction of the Shed. The deal was done. During the interim show of the MA Fine Art, the Shed was open. It began as bar in the opening of the show and finished as a stage of a performance. The in between days I occupied the shed as an open studio, were the public could participate doing some drawings, text or whatever they felt doing it. On the twenty first of February the shed was taken apart. Poster were distributed around college and people who needed wood were invited to participate.

The floor of the shed is still intact, was used several times in Mark McGowan performance workshop with students. With all the material collected in these days, a book was made with original drawings as well as with all the documentation of the process. The book is going to be donated to Chelsea College of Art and Design Library. Along side the book a blog was made, where people can interact and make comments. On the blog, beside the documentation of the project, there’s also Photographs of the new uses of the remains.

My studio window! Forest of signs

2011-02-13T08:27:00.000-08:00

Real Models

2011-02-05T12:54:00.000-08:00

HOW, PART OF MY PROCESS, MIGHT BE

2011-01-09T09:59:00.001-08:00

SOME KIND OF PLACE

2011-01-08T07:25:00.001-08:00

Escapment

"(...)Escapement is a horological or clockmaking term.It denotes the mechanism in mechanical watches and clocks that governs the regular motion of the hands through a "catch and release" device that both releases and restrain the levers that move the hands for hours, minutes, and seconds.Like the catch and release of the valves of the heat that allow blood to flow between its chambers , setting the basic rhythm of life, the escapement of a watch regulates our sense of the flow of time.The continued pulsation of our hearts and thinking of clocks denote our freedom from an eternal present. Each heartbeat, each passing second marks the here and now, promises the future, and recalls the resonance of the last heartbeat. Our heart tells us that we live in time.(...)" Raqs Media Collective, Now and Elsewhere

models

2010-12-13T17:40:00.001-08:00

Spiritual Stage

The spiritual stage is so high, that you will be share the place with clouds.Is a place for you to be alone, in order to reach the spiritual moment.

tower stage

You will be in a position to see everyone and the space around you. Alone or with others.

However you will be in a good position to be seen by everyone.

Celebration stage

Is a party stage, a place to dance, drink and so on...To celebrate whatever you want.Most of the cases with other people.

To show your feelings.If you feel exposed you can always watch as if it is a play.

Line

You will pass trough the line.You might jump the line or might drag your feet.

Podium

It will be a flexible one.It might be for winners or not.

Beautiful Losers Music Stage

Based on a friends music stage.the audience will be looking down the musicians will look up.

Foot Step Stage

Its a stage where if you step on you will leave evidences

inverted stage

Its a platform that will be for the audience. The stage will be the outside, the space that is around.

Each square is a chair, the arrows indicate the position of each chair based on the viewer's gaze.

constructivist stage

The constructivist stage is based on the 3rd international tower by Vladimir Tatlin.

It's a platform though to be a constant construction and development.

anonymous stage

Anonymous stage is a live act stage that everyone can participate.People will enter from a back stage door without being seen. Inside the box, there will be a micro, the speakers will be speared around the exhibition space.

The Nomadic Hive Manifesto

2010-12-11T04:56:00.000-08:00

Room 43 with Manet's painting 'Execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, 1868'. The making of the Nomadic Hive Manifesto.5.33pm 09.12.10 ©Kristian Buus

The Nomadic Hive Manifesto

A spectre is haunting Europe- the spectre of debt slaves refusing to pay. All the powers within Europe have entered into a holy alliance to regenerate a failing economy, to realise a lethal dream of returning to business as usual, and to level education and culture, so as to transform the educational and cultural sectors into a consumer society success story.

Their dream is of an education system in which education means obtaining skills to sell in the marketplace, a system in which to produce research means nothing more than making the country competitive in the global market. The vandalism of arts and humanities in this country is designed to produce a new definition of knowledge, defined as that which an individual can bring to the economy or marketplace. Where is the space given over by the architects of this extreme-make-over for those who have ideas and habits different to those favoured by the holy alliance? Where is the space given over to those who believe universities have a role in thinking and reflecting upon life, and what life can be?

If you listen carefully, a humming can be heard, the noise of dissatisfaction becomes dissent. The Holy Alliance fears that this noise has become a song on the lips of all?
Those who have demanded a space apart from this extreme-make-over have been painted as dangerous spoilers or parasites?

Two things need to be said about all this and the existence of the nomadic hive:
I. A nomadic hive is an aesthetic practice, not just a means of survival but an aesthetic mode of existence that manifests through producing networks, means of communications, protest, relations and assemblages: collective machines and situations for thinking and acting.
II. A nomadic hive has a queen (or two or more). The sole role of the queen is to facilitate the reproduction and maintenance of the hive. If the queen becomes more than a facilitator she must be killed.
III. The nomadic hive must declare its aims, way of life and values, to meet this nursery tale of the holy alliance that leads to nothing but debt slavery.

A manifesto has to be written.

On the 9th December 2010, from 16.45 to 19.45, in Room 43 of the National Gallery London, the nomadic hive produced the following manifesto:

1. The hive redefines public space. The hive reclaims public space and public spaces in private ownership (museums, shopping malls, streets).

2. Wherever the hive camps is our home.

3. Movement is imperative - keep moving - but to move or stay is our decision, and our decision to move or stay is our right.

4. The practice of questioning and critique is central to our movement and this questioning goes beyond the discursive.

5. The hive has a commitment to dissemination of information.

6. The movement is an emotional journey - involving thinking and affects.

7. The hive claims the right to happiness and rejects life as a debt slave until death.

8. The hive recognises the struggle for happiness is an international struggle.

9. The hive is a catalyst for change and for difference; it is a spark of light produced by the movement of the hive. The spark of light illuminates a situation for others.

10. This spark of light, the art of the hive, is produced in and presented within the spaces and situations of everyday life and not just in specialist institutions.

11. The movement of the hive expands beyond education, beyond the universities, the students and lecturers.

12. The hive does not preserve the status quo.

13.The hive does not oppose individualism to the collective.

14. The hive does not make anything for sale, the hive does not make 'works' for he market. The hive aims to change how the art world operates.

15. The hive is fluid and reassesses itself.

16 The hive speaks - 'act now!'

17. The hive is open on all levels. The hive needs open access at all times for the purposes of exchange, it is interactive and interdependent.

18. The hive actualises the power we have now.

19. The hive agrees to disagree and use disagreement as a platform and a starting point for action.

20. The hive addresses the problem of pedagogy.

21. The hive does not patronise, but it brings its art to the people.

22. The hive is not a meritocracy but a passionocracy: a passionocracy of skills, values and intentions.

23. What can we do? We can produce actions in public and private space to grow the hive.

24. The internet is a hive - through the internet the hive can cut out the middle man of the mass media corporations.

25. The hive is viral and online but the hive is an embodied practice - it exists in the spaces we occupy and the way we relate to space and others in space.

26. The hive exists in opposition to prevailing circumstances. In this, the hive produces a political imaginary - an affirmation of what we can do.

27. The hive has a honey pump, like Beuy's honey pump, for energy production.

28. The honey pump powers different forms of communication - songs, talk, noise.

29. The hive knows how to get things done, individually and collectively.

30. The audience for the songs, talk and noise of the hive is everybody - how we communicate is important.

31. We communicate through language but also without using language, by dancing and pheromones

32. Trust in the hive. And for people to trust in the hive there must be trust within the hive.

33. The hive reaffirms solidarity with all occupiers, with all taking action on the streets, with all public sector workers, and all workers, and all involved in labour that produces the social (students, carers, school students).

34. We oppose the methods that oppress our collective movement.

35. The manifesto of nomadic hive is in constant development.

36. The manifesto is drafted through action.

37. The hive works together, stings and makes honey.

38. The hive stings but does not die.

The Hive 9/12/2010

my studio! Preparing to Begin

2010-11-17T06:04:00.000-08:00

Final Show

2010-07-24T15:04:00.001-07:00

PLATFORM

23th OF JULY

Foot Steps

24th OF JULY

Sculpture

Deconstruction/Construction

25th OF JULY

Passage

26th OF JULY

Belvedere

27th OF JULY

Pieces

STAGE

studio and drawings

2010-06-23T15:13:00.001-07:00

models

2010-06-23T15:01:00.001-07:00

Essay on Installation Art - activity-passivity-

2010-06-12T07:35:00.000-07:00

design by Raquel Figueira and Isabel Ferreira

essay by Isabel Ferreira

PGDip F.A. interim show

2010-04-19T16:42:00.000-07:00

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

OPENING 6->8pm ,21 APRIL
TRIANGLE SPACE
Chelsea College of Art

work in progress

2010-03-07T12:40:00.001-08:00

ON/OFF

Platforms/stages

Platform/Stage 1

Platform/stage 2

ISABEL FERREIRA's CATALOG, 2004->2010.

2010-02-13T11:56:00.000-08:00

photography

drawings/paintings

Sculpture/Installation

ARRAIAL 25

2010-02-06T05:40:00.001-08:00

My first ever brief to do an exhibition.
We were not allowed to do our usual work although it was called Myspace . the beginning point was a song, Paninaro, from pet shop boys.
An empty song which talks about an Italian superficial youth subculture style from the 80s.
ARRAIAL is a traditional folk Portuguese community open party with a really crap music ( empty songs as well, some talk about sex, love and sex in a rude way by metaphors) this parties are mostly related to religious celebration where old people take seriously this dates and young people just want to have fun and get drunk! for me will be always just the fun part of it.
In other hand people to enjoy the party had to go to the stage and in this way be exposed in an area that was for them exotic and uncomfortable.

"Unicorn Horn" em "Transitório" no espaço expositivo Round the Corner

2009-11-25T06:22:00.000-08:00

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“Unicorn Horn” em “Transitório” no Round the Corner
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Para surpresa dos artistas, após a inauguração de “Transitório” no Round the corner a exposição encontrou-se fechada por dois dias. Foi proposto pela Instituição a peça “Unicorn Horn” ser retirada de cena devido ao acontecimento durante a inauguração e as suas consequencias. "Unicorn Horn" foi levado ás 10:45 do dia 20 de Novembro, num acto rápido e eficaz.
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Round the Corner
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O espaço Round the Corner do Teatro da Trindade destina-se ao acolhimento e fruição gratuita de novos projectos das mais diversas práticas artísticas contemporâneas, incrementando e apoiando a transdisciplinaridade exemplificada pelo teatro. Anualmente, através da publicação de um anúncio, são convidados programadores, curadores e artistas a apresentar as suas propostas de intervenção / acção.
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“Transitório”
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Folha de Sala
Nestes pequenos espaços busca-se capturar os momentos de passagem, são instantes guardados e revelados ao olhar na forma de diferentes manifestações. O tempo aqui, ganha a espessura de não ser mais apenas mutação, ele age nesse meio indefinido - transitório.
Transitório é, na sua essência, o lugar que pede a pausa impossível ao tempo. Ferida aberta no movimento que devolve a vida em todos os sentidos, porque a impossibilidade de estar parado é em si a condição de vida.
Tudo muda sempre, e tudo se move sempre. O espaço do tempo é lugar de nada, lugar informe onde o tempo descansa de si mesmo, é o lugar mesmo do repouso onde o tempo tende a não ser.
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“Unicorn Horn”
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Esta peça consiste num corno de unicórnio exposto de uma maneira tradicional, plinto com a base superior revestida a veludo onde se encontra o corno, este enclausurado numa vitrine.
No dia da inauguração o corno salta à vista de um ladrão, por surpresa das pessoas presentes, este num acto rápido e eficaz, parte a vitrina e leva consigo o objecto. No dia seguinte encontra-se na vitrina, esta partida, um papel a pedir informações sobre o acontecimento, tendo os contactos da artista.
Esta peça foi pensada para este espaço Round the corner e para este tempo Transitório, querendo provocar uma situação inesperada no momento. Materializando neste sentido a ideia de um acto transitório (roubo), no local mais propicio ao acontecimento (round the corner), ironicamente a peça roubada é de alguma maneira falsa, sendo esta baseada num animal mitológico e simbólico, que muitos acreditaram ter existido, mas que não há factos que provem a sua existência. Obviamente poderá tocar em questões mais problemáticas relacionadas com artista/instituição. Por mais pomposas e rígidas que as fachadas possam ser, poderão facilmente ser quebradas. Assim como o seu interior poderá ser bastante valioso ou não, ficando pela subjectividade. Por factores externos o controlo torna-se frágil tanto da parte do Artista como da parte da Instituição.

Transitório

2009-11-08T15:11:00.000-08:00

project draw - burglary installation

2009-07-11T09:57:00.000-07:00

...

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(will be 2000 cm x 90 cm)

Somebody was able to take a photo, moments after the burglary.

object - cufflink- was found in the crime scene

Sometimes great crimes are also great mysteries

Pyramid

2009-06-24T16:01:00.000-07:00

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Brown Ink Pen on paper ( 80cm x 110cm )

Este foi um dos ultimos desenhos que fiz, pertence a uma serie que ainda tenho de completar.Digamos que a serie vai ser uma especie de diario de rua onde vou reflectir alguns dos comportamnetos sócio-culturais. Este emoldurado, ficou com a medida de 83 cm por 83 cm.

2009-06-23T05:54:00.001-07:00

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Once upon a time

2009-05-17T15:14:00.000-07:00

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11 Assoalhada, o "Caso"/"Case"

2009-02-25T15:22:00.000-08:00

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O "Caso"/"Case"

END

After two months

END OF THE END OF THE END DOT

The "Case" of the "Crash" and its "Disappearance"

Official Secret Document

Dated on January 25th 2009


 This document was found in Camberwell Green, a zone in south east London, where workers were reapering the sewage systems. There are some speculations arround this document.Researchers who have been following this case, said this document was sent by mail from Portugal, so in this way, it could have been lost in the time and space.
The document was published on the 25 of January 2009, the date when the process was terminated.
 Although the text written in this document is only related to the phase 3 and 4, its have extremelly importance in the context of the "Case", the "Crash and its "Disapearance". However the sheet is seriously demaged, making difficult to read it proparly. Adicted to this, the piece of paper is too fragile to have a restauration.
As we can see, the A4 sheet was folded four times to make an A8 pocket book. Researchers think that this would make the document more discrete.
Last but not least the document doesn't have the original colours, those would be in a grey scale.
In the botton of this painel (image 1) there is the replica of the publication stamp of the "Case" of the "Crash" and its "Disapearance". 

2009-02-20T11:22:00.000-08:00

2009-02-08T13:26:00.000-08:00

that's it ... my installation that was supposed to be in one of the 11 Assoalhadas is somewhere between London and Lisbon, delivered to the mail, there is nothing I can do about it.
Has soon has possible I'll be announcing it presence in the exhibition, which is taking place in Espaço avenida.(the address is on the poster below)

2009-02-04T09:55:00.000-08:00

2009-02-04T03:09:00.000-08:00

He is more dead than never

2008-12-27T07:33:00.000-08:00

2008-12-09T15:41:00.000-08:00

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Experimental News "Stranded"

2008-11-21T07:15:00.000-08:00

2008-10-06T21:46:00.000-07:00

A Queda é uma peça provocadora, pelo seu tamanho,pela sua atmosfera,pelo seu assunto.
Um avião, que parece de brincar, pouco tempo depois de ter levantado voo, despenhou-se nas
traseiras de uma instituição escolar, uma peça um pouco irónica e talvez metafórica.As perguntas que se colocam serão então: qual a causa do acidente? Tera vítimas? Perguntas
óbvias e impulsivas, perante este tipo de acontecimento. O que leva o espectador, a procurar respostas no local, passando assim a ser obrigatoriamente um voyeur não só pela contemplação da peça mas também pela procura de algo, pela tentativa de ver o que existe ou existiu ali, pela
interrogação; levando-o a reflectir, a tirar algumas conclusões e a ficar com algumas dúvidas.O seu aspecto de brinquedo suaviza o acidente, tornando-se assim um cenário utópico. À partida, houve um momento dramático, o despenhar.No entanto o avião não sofreu grandes danificações.Não há vestígios trágicos,não há sangue, não há destroços, apenas há um indício de acidente, causado pela sua posição vertical em relação ao chão.As fitas de interdição ao local estão rompidas, apenas cobrem uma parte do espaço, faz pensar que o acidente terá acontecido há algum tempo, transmitindo um aparato inicial que acabou por cair no abandono.
Existem também memórias, as malas, a santa, a sebenta, a fogueira. Estes objectos fazem sentir que houve uma presença humana, transportando assim o espaço para um momento da vida real, criando uma ponte entre o imaginário e a realidade.
Uma viagem entre os dois extremos dessa ponte é o que esta instalação nos propõe.

celamento!

2008-07-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

Avião fase terminal

2008-07-01T10:11:00.001-07:00

yeah, I found my plane! After thinking that he had gone to the garbage!!!
but no... this was not his destination, it was just putted in an open field behind a pile of goods iron easels of the school, are just rotting there!!(I have already one ppcchhhiiuuu)
however, he died but will marvellously reborn.

"Davida"

2008-07-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

Santa

2008-07-01T10:02:00.000-07:00

2008-06-01T03:57:00.000-07:00

A "PRAGA" invadiu Évora!
Já foi a algum tempo (31 de Abril, 1 e 2 de Maio), foi a segunda PRAGA, a primeira foi em Braga em 2006, em ambas elas fiz parte da organização.

AS duas resultaram muito bem, pois as cidades referidas, são cidades com algum nome mas pouco desenvolvidas artisticamente, contudo teve participações de pessoas residentes nelas.
Foi uma semana em Evora e chegamos à conclusão que quanto mais tempo tivermos na cidade mais ela nos pode dar e mais impacto a PRAGA pode ter, não se ficando só pelo edifício mas podendo também sair mais à rua.
Praga consistiu na ocupação de um edifício recheando-o de tudo o que a "arte" abrange, tentando que não ficasse nenhum espaço em branco, tendo concertos, performances, escultura, pintura, desenho, mostra de curtas, mostra de fanzines, a elaboração de um fanzine de 24 horas a bombar assim como um quadro que foi rifado e me saiu a mim hehehe.
Para variar os apoios foram mesmo muito poucos mas conseguiu-se dar a volta.

A Porcalhona

2008-05-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

Aqui está uma porcalhona mealheira!

Isto foi feito para as MIO, um colectivo de que eu faço parte, constituído por gajas das caldas.

Dia 14, 15 e 16 de Maio vamos estar a bombar no Inferno da Azenha, um espaço brutal que fica nas redondezas das Caldas da Rainha.

"Latitude/longitude"

2008-04-03T03:07:00.000-07:00

"Latitude: 39, 404059884712645;Longitude: -9,13364589214325"

Começou o Museu! Dia 1 de Abril a Praça da Fruta encheu de convívio e boa disposição, também de visitas inesperadas...é o que acontece quando se faz coisas na via pública! o Projecto "O Museu Mais Pequeno do Mundo" foi desenvolvido por mim e 5 amigos colegas meus, já esteve em tomar e no dia 1 começou o ciclo nas Caldas da Rainha vai ter dois meses(Abril/Maio) em que duas vezes por semana serão apresentadas duas exposições de autores diferentes.
O Museu caiu de para-quedas! envolvendo todo o espaço que o rodeava, tornando-se numa escultura e pondo a pensar, de onde é que esta merda apareceu? pois mas estava lá e com a colaboração do Estado da Translocalidade(ver nos links).

Davida

2008-03-22T10:58:00.000-07:00

Bem, comecei isto a um tempo e tenho estado, também, nisto com calma e paciência.A peça já foi enchida e desmoldada agora é lixar, e por estupidez minha colar partes que se partiram devido ao facto de me ter esquecido de pôr sisal, bem mas isso já lá vai.Parti duma peça de Donatello mas foi ganhando a sua forma, alias a minha forma. Como todos os outros trabalhos o processo foi muito importante e passou por varias fases interessantes. A parte de tirar os moldes foi mesmo muito chata e agonizante até, como se vê nesta ultima imagem, não é lá muito confortável. Mas foi fixe, acho que nunca me senti tão sozinha ahahah eu a vaselina e as ligaduras de gesso enfim...ah claro isto não seria possível sem a ajuda da Raquel, um bem haja.

Avião (fase 3)

2008-03-04T02:22:00.001-08:00

Avião (fase 2)

2008-02-28T09:28:00.001-08:00

Avião (fase 1>2)

2008-02-28T09:12:00.001-08:00

2008-02-27T07:10:00.001-08:00

Avião (fase 1)

2008-02-27T07:01:00.001-08:00

Postes Portateis

2008-02-17T09:37:00.000-08:00

Bem, não sei o que escrever...acho que dá para perceber a ideia .Fi-los e parti para a viagem!Estas fotos são uma seleção. Digo apenas que a primeira foto não sei porque ficou assim, ja fiz o que estava ao meu alcance e não tem remédio estas tecnologias dão-nos a volta!

2008-02-02T09:37:00.001-08:00

60cmx160cm

Baloiço

2008-02-02T09:35:00.001-08:00

Projecto Tº, "Life system"

2008-02-02T09:31:00.000-08:00

(televisão exterior a passar o interior)