Prof. Helena Elias (coordinator)
(Portugal)
Professor, research artist, she is part of an Erasmus generation, who studied and lived in cities like Lisbon, Aberdeen and Barcelona and attended several Faculties of Fine Arts, obtaining academic degrees in different systems of education and investigation in Arts (1999, 2000, 2007 ). She recognized the need to think about the place of artistic research in academia. Artistic practice, teaching, research are the activities that shape their scientific-artistic performance, fed simultaneously by the action of practice and theoretical reflection. Coordinates the line of investigation. Research in the making of arts and sciences in VICARTE.
Prof. Marta Castelo (coordinator)
(Portugal)
Lisbon, 1980. Graduated in Sculpture by Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PhD candidate and Sculpture professor in the same Faculty. She had a scholarships by Erasmus program in “Universität der Kunst Berlin”, in 2004/2005. She developed artistic residencies in ceramic sculpture in Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-novo, between 2006 and 2018. In 2010/2011, Marta Castelo finished a Postgraduation Course in Photography, Project and Contemporary Art, organized by Atelier de Lisboa and IPA. In her work raw and/or fired clay are used as a way to explore and think about the relationship between nature and construction, as well as the notions of ephemeral and fixation. She was selected for the Anteciparte awards in 2006 and has been participating in various exhibitions, both individual and collective, since 2008.
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