9islands

This blog is a collection of things related to the practice of art with a focus on the Portuguese culture. The title, 9islands is a reference to my native Azores islands as well as to Nicolas Bourriaud’s use of the term archipelago:

“The universalist and progressive dream that governed modern times is in tatters, and this disintegration is today giving rise to a new configuration of thought that no longer proceeds by building great totalizing theoretical systems but by constructing archipelagoes. A voluntary grouping of islands networked together to create an autonomous entity, the archipelago is the dominant figure of contemporary culture.” (The Radicant, p.185)