The final of three discussions held following the Forming Ideas
research visit to the Nordic countries in 2009/10. The Stanley Picker Gallery
and Kingston University Faculty of Art hosted this roundtable on 1 April 2011.
Below is a summary of the roundtable.
This is a text version of a talk given by Frederico Duarte at Brazil-Cultural Contemporary Forming Ideas conference at the RCA. For the full version containing the accompanying slide show please download the PDF at the end of the page.
Hello everyone. I’d like to thank Martina for the invitation, and Julia for making sure I got here alright.
In the first place, I would like to give warm thanks for the invitation to be here – thank you Martina Margetts, Ann Jones, Julia Bunnage and all the team that worked for this to happen.
CULTEX is an international collaborative exhibition, exploring cross-cultural
exchange through three artistic partnerships between Norway and Japan. The
project was initiated, and has been curated by Lesley Millar.
This handout provides brief biographical information about each of the artists,
a statement regarding their general artistic concerns and information on their
collaborative works produced through the CULTEX collaboration.
A statement by each artist explaining the concept of their installation can be found
on the walls of the gallery.
We were met by Laura Barbi, Press Relations at the Brazilian Embassy. The meeting took place in the context of the exhibition Neoconcrete Experience at Gallery 32.
I am going to focus my presentation around a recent research trip I made with other curators to Cairo, which was organised by Camilla Cannellas, for ArtProjects, and the follow up conference we organised in London called Khamseen (Sandstorm in Arabic), to explore moments of connection between cultures.
Cairo had been selected because there is an active dialogue taking place in Egypt between the past and the present, and between traditional and contemporary practices.
Adélia Borges is a design curator and writer. Lives in São Paulo, Brasil. Was director of Museu da Casa Brasileira, a governmental museum specialized in design and architecture (2003-2007). Has written six books on design or designers, among them Designer não é Personal Trainer (2002) and Sergio Rodrigues (2005). As a journalist, was the director of the magazine Design & Interiores(1987-1994), the design editor of Gazeta Mercantil, daily business newspaper(1998-2002), and freelancer writer for many Brazilian and international magazines.
For over 60 years now, the Arts Council of Switzerland Pro Helvetia has been responsible for presenting Swiss culture abroad, promoting cultural dialogue between the various linguistic regions of the country and fostering supra-regional understanding. Through its activities it supports a contemporary, culturally diverse and open-minded Switzerland.
