Quoting name: Alexandra do Carmo
Professional Category / Position: Artist; Researcher
Position(s) within IHA: RG Member [Contemporary Art Studies]
Thematic areas: Socially Engaged Art; Public Art; Artistic Autonomy; Usefulness; Social Justice
Contact: alexandrahawke@fcsh.unl.pt
CIÊNCIA ID: 5F13-BF47-128D
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6946-3068
Website: alexandradocarmo.com
Biography
Alexandra do Carmo (alexandradocarmo.com) lives and works in Lisbon, she is an artist and researcher, PhD in Artistic Studies by NOVA FCSH, she was a fellow of FCT (Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology). She Studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and Pratt institute, both in New York, and at Ar.Co in Lisbon. Latest artistic projects: Red Line Campaign with the Youth Climate Strike, Lisbon, March 15th 2020, presented at Quadrum Gallery for Earthkeeping/Earthshaking, (2020), and The Green Studio at IC19, (2018) presented at Sismógrafo, Porto.
Currently she is part of a collaborative project at Air 351 in Cascais and a project with the cultural association Pode Vir a Ser in Évora. Her last collaboration with IHA was Pick Manifesto 25 de Abril Hoje (2024) within the Cluster Performance Art of which she is part of. Her practice is focused on the studio as a conceptual field of study—the studio as a lens through which to investigate relations between artist and public, revealing the dynamics, conditions and limits of authorship. Her main area of research is the concept of Artistic Autonomy for Public Use, in the North American artistic social and political practices.
Latest publications available:
(2022) Alexandra do Carmo e Daniela Salazar, A Platform of Theoretical Connections Between Artistic Practices, Processes and Curatorial Apparatus, in RHA n.º 11: https://institutodehistoriadaarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/RHA_W11-1.pdf
(2018) Emancipation And Resistance: Suburban Allotments, Spontaneous And “Clandestine”, https://www.academia.edu/38001548/
(2017) Alexandra do Carmo and Bruno Marques, Performance Stories in Portugal: Storytelling at Quadrum, RHA-W n.º 6: http://revistaharte.fcsh.unl.pt/rhaw6/
(2017) The Green Studio at IC19, Interact online magazine
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Alexandra do Carmo (alexandradocarmo.com) vive e trabalha em Lisboa, é artista e investigadora, doutorada em Estudos Artísticos – Arte e Mediações pela FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, da qual foi bolseira (conjuntamente com a FCT). Estudou no Whitney Independent Study Program e no Pratt Institute, ambos na cidade de Nova Iorque e no Ar.Co em Lisboa. Os seus últimos projetos artísticos são Campanha Linha Vermelha com a Greve Climática Estudantil, Lisboa, 15 de Março 2020, para a exposição Earthkeeping/Earthshaking na galeria Quadrum em 2020 e O Ateliê Verde no IC19 no Sismógrafo no Porto em 2018. Presentemente participa de um projecto colectivo na Air 351 e na associação Pode Vir a Ser em Évora. A sua ultima colaboração com o IHA foi o projecto Pick Manifesto 25 de Abril Hoje (2024) inserido no Cluster Arte da Performance da qual faz parte. A sua prática artística centra-se no atelier como campo conceptual de estudo, uma lente através da qual se investigam as relações entre artista e público, revelando as dinâmicas, condições e limites da autoria. A sua área de investigação é o conceito de Artistic Autonomy for Public Use nas práticas artísticas Norte Americanas de carácter social e político.
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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group