Lawrence Weiner at his best!

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"The purpose of art is to question the material relationships to their world in relation to human beings.

The purpose of curating is to agglomerate those questions (in effect to present them).

Why should an artist curate the next WHATEVER show WHENEVER." Lawrence Weiner

This is part of The Next Documenta Should be Curated by An Artist an e-flux's project Curated by Jens Hoffman

A Tribute to Stephen Gately...

I know it's quite cheeky, but I couldn't avoid it and this blog is about me, who I am and the things that shape my life. Not only was Boyzone part of my teenage years, Stephen Gately was my favourite one. I was quite upset when he came out and got married to his boyfriend, I probably thought I still had some chances hahaha... Anyway, I hope he is well wherever he is. Stephen Gately (1976 - 2009)

700 Sundays - Billy Crystal

This book is beautiful! He wrote it in an amazing form. I truly recommend it! I just wish I could have seen the play.

Research Quotes VI

The current obsession with keeping everything tidy, not accepting long grass and leaning tombs, and treating a funeral as a refuse disposal problem, reflects a deep malaise in society. Death was never a tidy thing: it is foolish to try and make it so, and to compartment it away from life and the living.

James Stephen Curl, 1972

Memooorieesss... lalalala....

I sign up with Le Cool magazine on line (both London and Lisbon).
This week on the Lisbon one there was the most amazing text invitation for a party, where the writer described everything that a child from the 80's growing up in Portugal would remember. Oh that sweet sweet nostalgia... ohhh why do we have to grow up?! I know my english readers won't understand, but it's too special to translate!

Here is the text by Mami Pereira:

“Quantos-queres?”, “Três”, “Um, dois, três”, “Qual queres?”, “O quadrado”, “ahah és o tipo gordo do Duarte e Companhia!”... ai que saudades do que já lá vai, de nos lembrarmos dos seios da Tieta no genérico, de nunca perceber o que é que a Perpétua tinha na caixa que guardava, do Blandiblu, das Peta-Zetas, dos Pez que encravavam às vezes, dos autocolantes do Tou, das Super-gorila tão duras ao princípio, das mixed K7s, dos discos dos Ministars, Ondachoc e Ana Faria e os Queijinhos Frescos, das Bombocas, das pulseiras-régua que afinal faziam mal, do leite com chocolate Toddy, da Ondamania, dos Pushpops que deixavam o dedo peganhento, da Minha Agenda todos os Natais, dos Pega-monstros que sujavam as paredes e isto sem falar da roupa que nos vestiam, suspensórios a segurar calças de bombazine coçada e sapatos de carneira para dar boas caneladas no recreio. É trazer isso tudo e vir para o convívio e para a danceteria. Once an 80s child, always an 80s child?" Por Mami Pereira

Exhibitions/ Films/ Books

I am starting this new section of my blog, where I list Exhibitions I've been to, films I've seen and books I've read. This is inspired by my friend Bridget Donlon's blog - with her authorization of course. It is mostly done for myself, so that I can keep track of what's going on in my life.

Last two months:

Exhibitions:
- Damian Ortega: Do It Yourself, ICA, Boston
- Carlos Contente, Galeria Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro
- Dan Graham: Beyond, Whitney Museum, New York
- In and Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976, MOMA, New York
- Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MOMA, New York
- Radical Nature–Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, Barbican Centre, London
- Susana Mendes Silva, X, Marz Galeria, Lisbon
- Emissores Reunidos, Serralves, Porto
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
- Yale University Art Gallery, Yale

Films:
- Julie and Julia, directed by Nora Ephron
- Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant
- Fargo, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen,
- The Colour of Paradise, directed by Majid Majidi
- Notes on a Scandal, directed by Richard Eyre
- The Proposal, directed by Anne Fletcher
- He’s just not that into you, directed by Ken Kwapis - on the airplane.
- Rome: Series 1

Books:
- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Leviathan, Paul Auster