José e Pilar (2010), Portugal’s official entry for the 2012 Academy awards.

Here is his blog, Shrapnel Contemporary.

Since the About of this blog seems to fluctuate, I have added it as a Topic of its own so this is my first entry.  At the moment I am returning to this blog after a long period of inactivity. It is a place for me to collect, organize and tag things of interest having to do with the practice of art with a shameless bias towards Portuguese artists. The thing started with a title, 9islands – 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)

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