Showing posts with label Porto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Porto. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

ANGEL SQUARE #3 // PRAÇA DO ANJO #3



354kg, 118€

“The Porto’s Court of São João Novo ordered yesterday, X, to a prison sentence of four months on charges of receiving stolen goods, the only unlawful act proved in trial”; wrote, in november 2009, M. Claudia Monteiro in the Newspaper Notícias. As an urban tale remains the story that the alleged thieves withdrew energy – to power the equipment needed to shred the bronze sculpture – directly from one of the Clérigos Shopping abandoned stores. The female angel, created by the sculpture José Rodrigues, valued at 200 thousand euros, is the thread to the history of this square. Initially called Angel Square, as the legend tells that the wife of D. Afonso have fallen there from her donkey, and the king ordered that a chapel should be erected on the place. It was after an outdoor market and later, when Porto wanted to appear as a truly European city, that it became Lisbon Square and Clérigos Shopping.
In 2006, none of the refined stores remained open, the space being used only as access to the underground parking. And more specifically, in December 22nd, thieves, who were neither members of an international art trafficking network, nor bearing Zorro’s masks, decided to strike the final blow to a space death at birth.
How many more similar spaces will arise in the city to fall, not under the thick cover of a great cataclysm such as Pompeii, but due to the rapid erosion of the negligent planning of our leaders?
Association of Friends of the Angel Square, Porto 2010.




354kg, 118€

“O Tribunal de São João Novo, no Porto, condenou, ontem, __ a uma pena de prisão efectiva de quatro meses, pelo crime de receptação negligente, o único acto ilícito provado durante o julgamento.” Escrevia M. Cláudia Monteiro em Novembro de 2009 no Jornal de Notícias. Como mito urbano ficará a estória de que os presumíveis assaltantes retiraram a energia – necessária ao equipamento para retalhar a escultura em bronze – directamente duma das lojas abandonadas do Clérigos Shopping. A anja, de autoria do mestre José Rodrigues, avaliada em 200 mil euros, é o fio condutor à história desta praça. Inicialmente denominada Praça do Anjo, pois conta a lenda que a mulher de D. Afonso aí terá caído do burrico, terá então o rei mandado erguer uma capela. Foi depois mercado ao ar livre, e mais tarde quando o Porto se quis dar ares de cidade europeia, transformou-se em Praça de Lisboa e Clérigos Shopping.
Em 2006, nenhuma das lojas de mercadorias finas restava aberta, sendo o espaço apenas usado como acesso ao parque de estacionamento subterrâneo. E mais precisamente a 22 de Dezembro, uns ladrões, que não seriam membros de uma rede de tráfico internacional de arte, nem possuidores de mascarilha, resolveram dar o golpe final a um espaço moribundo à nascença.
Quantos mais espaços semelhantes se erguerão na cidade, para caírem, não sob o manto espesso de um fantástico cataclismo como o de Pompeia, mas, devido à rápida erosão de um planeamento negligente dos nossos líderes?
Associação de Amigos da Praça do Anjo, Porto 2010.


Carla Cruz and Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa at Sousa Ribeiro shop for the Troca-se por Arte event, Porto.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Notes#020

...thinking of CRISTIANA ROCHA's work when reading Agamben's comming community, specially the idea of the inessential character of the whatever singularity ... not that I fully understand why.

In 2007 at the massive participatory even "Serralves em Festa", at Porto's contemporary art museum, Rocha invited the audience, according to some specific characteristic, to come together at a particular hour of the day at a particular time, and only them the commonality appeared...

see more here

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Notes#011


A performance done in October 2009 at Avenida dos Aliados, Praça da Liberdade and Largo dos Lóios - Porto by the name Coreto. An ephemeral piece made out of cardboard that echos those structures of Porto's Romantic gardens, once filled with the music of local brass bands are nowadays quite abandoned. This intervention was made in the context of an educational project - Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces and Site Specific work - by André Silva, Cláudia Lopes, Dalila Gonçalves and Inês Gama.

you can see the original news in portuguese here

It seems that the bandstand had a programme with music and that interaction was the goal. Unfortunately I could not see if there was any, and of what kind. The truth is that this Avenue after being requalified three years ago have been the target of several artistic interventions that try a posteriori to inquire what has not been examined before the urban intervention: what was it used for and what can it be used for on an everyday basis.

you find in this blog my own investigation after the works were finished on how it was being used.

Saturday, December 26, 2009

After Party C213

Todos à festa!
Caldeira 213 no Senhorio
R. Duque de Loulé 239, 2º
Porto.
3.Jan.2010
17:00

Tuesday, June 16, 2009


Tsurus - e a lenda de quem fizer 1000

Monday, June 15, 2009

Eu Pisei as Flores


Rua das Flores - 12 de Junho - Porto
"É favor Pisar as Flores". Esta “interferência” é um dos projectos dos participantes no 1º Curso de Especialização em Intervenções Artísticas em Espaços Públicos da Universidade Lusófona do Porto. A equipa do Projecto Flores Adriana Oliveira . Irene Loureiro . João Medeiros

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Objecto Urbano não Identificado



encontrei estas intervenções na minha rua e na rua Fernandes Tomás - gosto :-)

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junto ao mercado do bolhão - a tapar a sinalização do Metro do Porto.

Monday, September 15, 2008

participante_domingo_004

O plastisfério cresce a cada dia!

Saturday, September 13, 2008

begining of the world

participante

convocatorias

os sacos de papel para serem trocados pelos sacos de plástico que os transeuntes carregam...

Tuesday, March 18, 2008



Pequenos gestos na Cidade _ Oficina do NEC // a partir de textos de Mika Hannula // the politics of small gestures...



Praça Moinho de Vento no Porto
16 de MArço



Victor, Sofia, Joana, Joana, Filipe, Carla e Flávio!!!


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Thursday, June 21, 2007

Rivolição

 
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