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FACTT 22/24

MOVING THROUGH

CAPILLARITY

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FACTT 22/24 Moving through Capillarity

Moving through Capillarity implies a consortium of conceptual and methodological bridges between scientific concepts and the creative realm. Contemporary art often seeks not just inspiration from various disciplines but also ways to re-problematize concepts, and this FACTT is an exploration of how the concept of capillarity can serve as a metaphorical thread weaving through both scientific and artistic domains.

The metaphor of capillarity can be seen as a symbolic representation of the fluid exchange of ideas, thoughts, challenges, and expressions within the various disciples who take part in the creation of the artworks. Just as capillaries facilitate the movement of fluids in a dynamic and interconnected manner, this year’s festival proposes an examination of how artistic concepts, modes of process, and innovations permeate and diffuse across different genres, mediums, and cultural contexts.

Artistic transference, analogous to capillary action, involves the subtle influence of one work on another, creating not just a dialogue, but also a whole universe, with different perspectives, and forms of viewing and understanding the world. The osmotic exchange of ideas, methods, and ways of exploring the real across disciplinary borders, or the inductive process of creative evolution within a specific art context draws parallels between capillarity in scientific artistic processes. This year’s Festival title hints at a deeper exploration of the interconnectedness and fluidity inherent in the contemporary art world.

Furthermore, the works propose a thoughtful examination of what surrounds us and how we take steps to understand it, but also to explain it, indicating an intellectual and reflective approach to new knowledge about these processes. This exploration is not merely descriptive or representational, it is also analytical and simultaneously synthetic, exposing the implications of working across disciplines and how it can enhance our comprehension of the intricate dynamics within the world. It invites artists, critics, and audiences alike to consider the underlying currents that drive the circulation and evolution of ideas within the artistic and scientific landscapes.

CultivamosCultura and ArteInstitute in collaboration with our worldwide partners provide and actively promote conditions to foster the creative response of artists towards these new challenges. Together we develop a series of activities within FACTT Festival 20/21 which result from a complex network of social and environmental interactions. Together we plan remote, face-to-face, local and international public engagement activities, by bringing to the forefront the work of artists from all over the world. We plan to present artworks and creative outcomes in a hybrid space entangling the virtual and physical; a space that desires to break the limits of access to culture, to collaboration, to the experience of art.

A space that desires to break the limits of access to culture, to collaboration, to the experience of art.

Moving through Capillarity

FACTT 22/24 – «Moving through Capillarity» implies a dynamic process, perhaps involving a transfer or movement of ideas or elements through a narrow and interconnected system, akin to how fluids move through capillaries in biology. For FACTT 22-24 it is indicative that the exploration extends to diverse scientific phenomena and abstract principles.

  1. Andrea Polli; “Promessassom”
  2. Ânia Pais; “Melting Landscapes”.
  3. André Araújo & Nuno Sousa; “Os nossos seres são iguais”.
  4. André Araújo & Marta de Menezes; “Vorticella: Sonic feedback loop of the ecosystem as a listening relationship”.
  5. Anna Isaak-Ross, André Araújo, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa, Sally Santiago  & Marta de Menezes; “Living with Cork”
  6. Cosima Herter & Marta de Menezes; “I can’t live without you”
  7. Diana Mordido Aires; “Fiar o Entorno”.
  8. María Contreras; “Saudades with Acento”.
  9. Marta de Menezes; “What is Art, if not meaning? What is meaning, if not layers? What are we, if not layers of meanings?”.
  10. Minerva H. Trejo | Being
  11. Sally Santiago; “Cohabitation Patterns”.
  12. Sérgio Eliseu; “Memory Farmer”
  13. Stephanie Rothenberg | «Aquadisia»

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University at Buffalo in the Project Space – 155 CFA 26th Apr 2024

OPENING Moving through Capillarity Exhibition

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26th Apr 2024

SITE LAUNCH Moving through Capillarity Exhibition

"With memory as its main theme, the experience focuses on a farmer who cultivates his memories, promoting a virtual visit to these memories that spring from the earth."

Sérgio Eliseu "Memory Farmer"

"Rendered as singular pieces, each piece was created with the strength of the sun’s light to tell a story. They take you through a path between different scales and dimensions, a visual expression of water through soil, land, life , and light."

Anna Isaak-ross, André Araújo, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa, Sally Santiago & Marta De Menezes "Light and water: Revealing the layered perspectives of the cork landscape ecosystem and its biome"

"Human existence functions around a thought that searches for self-knowledge, the functioning of its existence and its innumerable whys. Science, philosophies, and religions offer perspectives that contemplate different faces of this discussion, which revolves around the cohabitation of the real material space and the real immaterial space."

Sally Santiago "Cohabitation Patterns"

"She stands with her arms raised above her head with her fingers spread as though touching a spectacle in front of her lifted eyes that we cannot see. Her body is poised in mid-strain as she reaches upwards."

Cosima Herter & Marta de Menezes "I can’t live without you"

"Imagine if we could bioengineer this magical species to convert toxic water into an even more transformative formula and piped it into public drinking water?"

Stephanie Rothenberg "Aquadisia"

"Reflecting on this process made her consider all the ‘data’ points within pottery: the chemical composition of the clay itself, the location where the clay is harvested, the processing and forming of the clay by hand, recording the movements, skill and structure of the hands, and the goals and purpose of the potter, i.e. what the vessel is used for."

Andrea Polli "Promessassom"

"Portraits and islands created from the AI ​​mirror."

Minerva H. Trejo "Being"

“The passage of time resonates in the memories that we fondly say no one can take away from us. It echoes the inhabited, thought and lived place that reconfigures and activates itself as space.”

André Araújo & Nuno Sousa "Os nossos seres são iguais"

"The landscape is a physical and spiritual territory/place."

Ânia Pais "Melting Landscapes"

"Each note, a testament to the profound connection between water and the very essence of existence, invites you to listen to the heartbeat of nature."

Anna Isaak-ross, André Araújo, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa, Sally Santiago & Marta De Menezes "Living with Cork"

"As an artist, who I am, what I am, where I came from, and all that encompasses Identity is of profound interest to me."

Marta de Menezes "What is Art, if not meaning? What is meaning, if not layers? What are we, if not layers of meanings?"

"Water, fundamental for life, holds an undeniable importance in this region’s delicate ecosystem. From the waves of the Atlantic Ocean to the intricate network of rivers and streams that weave through the land, water sustains not only the environment but also the livelihoods of its inhabitants. It nurtures the lush vegetation, supports diverse wildlife, and shapes the distinctive charm of the region."

Anna Isaak-ross, André Araújo, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa, Sally Santiago & Marta De Menezes "Living with Cork"

"The viewer is invited to contemplate the delicate balance that sustains this microcosm, a living testament to the harmonious interplay between nature's elements."

Anna Isaak-ross, André Araújo, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa, Sally Santiago & Marta De Menezes "Living with Cork"

"Nothing ever feels like being at home again, a place that no longer exists. Loving from a distance; a feeling of longing that never ends, an incomplete sense of belonging."

María Contreras "Saudades with Acento"

"The connection between the human and the non-human, however distant and even adversarial it may appear, exists in a delicate equilibrium that must be reviewed from an artistic standpoint."

André Araújo & Marta de Menezes "Vorticella: Sonic feedback loop of the ecosystem as a listening relationship"

"Fiar o Entorno (Weave the surroundings) intends to explore the ability of feeling the emptiness of places, while rethinks the continuous transformation of the territory of southwest Alentejo, Portugal."

Diana Mordido Aires "Fiar o Entorno"

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Cultivamos Cultura
University at Buffalo
InArts Lab – Ionian University
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Arte+Ciencia UNAM
SVA NYC

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