Project: Santo (Saint)
Our reflection centers in the story of two chapels (apart for just a hundred meters) that compete for the cult of the same saint-S. Macário (São Pedro do Sul). Our goal was to “live” them, measure them, brand them, prey on them and build relationships between its hermitages, its narratives and communities that utilize them. That which shall be presented at the end of the residency, as a result of said experience is completely open to interpretation.
The UVBA Collective, descendent of the Department of Art and Communication of the University of Aveiro, incorporates a gathering of artists from different areas but with common interests such as. performance, vídeo, (an)architecture, land art, socialmedia and urbanism, which they meet on wards to develop projects, conversations, studying, have dinner, drinks and arguments, not exactly in this order. The Collective looks to investigate and reflect on questions connected to life, artistic contemporary practices, etc.
João Vilnei (Brasil) has a Master (2009) in Contemporary Artistic Creation by the University of Aveiro-Portugal and a Bachelor (2006) in Social Communication/Publicity and Advertisement by the Federal University of Ceará. A visual artist and performer, who attends the Body, Communication and Art Research Laboratory-LICCA
Pedro Pais Correia (Portugal) has a Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation from the University of Aveiro-Portugal, and is currently a teacher in the public school system.
Ana Saraiva, has concluded in 1998 her bachelor degree in Anthropology by the New University of Lisbon (UNL). In 2007, she completed her Master in Museology and Heritage, by UNL, with a specialization in Programming and Management of Museums and Heritage. In 2010, she completed the High Studies in Anthropology (UNL). Presently she’s enrolled in the Doctorate Course in Anthropology (UNL), with her investigation project “Expressions of popular architecture and the identity representative processes. In 1999 Saraiva performed functions as anthropologist in the municipality of Góis, with its studies focused in the rural villages of Góis-community practices; in 2000 she took part in the pluri disciplinary team of the Local Plan of Action and the Detailed Plan and Safe guarding of the Historic Center of Belver, Municipality of Gavião. Since 2001 Saraiva has worked in the Municipality of Ourém, currently taking the lead of the Cultural Action Division and the direction of the Municipal Museum. She has developed and participated in study and programming projects in the disciplinary areas of Anthropology and Museology, resulting in the creation of publications connected to cultural representation discourses.
Born in Oliveira de Frades in 1974, Pedro Silva is an architect graduated from the Lusíada University in 1997. While as young collaborator, in Lisbon, with Alexandre Marques Pereira, Philip Cabau, Manuel Tainha in Chiado Studios, he has developed national and international competitions as well some punctual individual works. In Oliveira de Frades he opened his own atelier in 2007 (psaa arquitectura), where he’s been creating new architecture and design planning projects. In parallel he has been a public school teacher and more recently (2012) an invited assistant to the course of Architecture of the Catholic University in Viseu. Between 2007 and 2012 he enrolled in the Master of Contemporary Artistic Creation of the University of Aveiro. Nowadays Silva, takes part of the “Coletivo UVBA” which has recently participated in the international competition “Performance Architecture” for the European Capital of Culture-Guimarães 2012.