Gonçalo Alegria
Primeiro Sítio
First Place is a sound installation that explores a relation between the visitor and his environment and how he becomes an explorer when him/her inhabits it, going through its points of interest.
Saturday •
OPENING- -
terça-sábado • -
interfluencies #12: : 21 mar ● saturday ● 16h
Booking: Free entrance
Evertyhing begins with a tick. And what is a place? There is maybe a definition that begins by identifying a perimeter and that the things contained there make it unique. The entering visitor will change their perception as they make decisions in this unknown place and with it they will make their own meanings. It is also, possilbly a path for a single person.
“…this eyeless animal finds the way to her watchpoint [at the top of a tall blade of grass] with the help of only its skin’s general sensitivity to light. The approach of her prey becomes apparent to this blind and deaf bandit only through her sense of smell. The odor of butyric acid, which emanates from the sebaceous follicles of all mammals, works on the tick as a signal that causes her to abandon her post (on top of the blade of grass/bush) and fall blindly downward toward her prey. If she is fortunate enough to fall on something warm (which she perceives by means of an organ sensible to a precise temperature) then she has attained her prey, the warm-blooded animal, and thereafter needs only the help of her sense of touch to find the least hairy spot possible and embed herself up to her head in the cutaneous tissue of her prey. She can now slowly suck up a stream of warm blood.”
Giorgio Agamben em The Open: Man and Animal
Studied Music with José Eduardo, Mario Delgado.
Was a sound and lighting teacher at EPAOE. Frequency of the Gulbenkian Creativity Program – Interdisciplinary and Technological Performance Arts.
Frequency of the Illustration course in Ar.Co. Currently attends the Master of Musical Arts in FCSH.
In his personal work develops an artistic interdisciplinary research in writing, sound and performance.
Collaborated, among others, with Daniela Silvestre, João Ferro Martins, Andresa Soares.