MULTIDISCIPLINARY
SYNOPSIS
QR CODE is a multimedia and performative installation that explores the graphic visualization of two-dimensional codes – Quick Response Code – as a means of creation, with other artistic languages, for the conception and research of Marshall McLuhan’s concept of ‘Media as Extensions’, in the capacity of the media to be extensions of human faculties, being able to transfer global reality and its consequent contamination into the present space.
The object is made up of different media – performance, video, sound, installation – as polyphonic elements in the face-to-face space, testing the limits of communication and the possibilities of information. Moving through two spaces with different presences and times – inside the gallery and outside in the streets of each place – an immersive and reflective relationship is proposed, resulting from the tension between physical and virtual experience.
QR CODE is an installation-rhizome, a network of multiple connections between objects, organisms and hybrid experiences.
ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL FILE
Collective creation_ Ana Gil, Márcia Lança, Maria Leonardo Cabrita, Nuno Leão, Óscar Silva, Rui Dias, Tiago Moura
Book collaboration_ Apolo de Carvalho, Diogo Martins, João Pedro Azul, Leonor Teles, Manuel Bogalheiro, Ostraliana, Patrícia Lino, Pedro Eiras, Ricardo M., Rui Dias Monteiro, Sónia Baptista
Technical editing support_ Pedro Fonseca
Multimedia programming support_ Carlos Diogo
Communication design_ Cátia Santos
Process photography_ Alípio Padilha, Maria Leonardo Cabrita, Nuno Leão, Tiago Moura
Executive producer_ Bruno Esteves
Production_ Third Person
Funding_ Directorate-General for the Arts / Portuguese Republic – Culture
Creation Residency_ Fábrica da Criatividade Castelo Branco
Support_ Festival Temps d’Images, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Um Coletivo, LAMA Teatro, Fábrica da Criatividade Castelo Branco / Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco
Acknowledgements_ Teatromosca, ESART – Castelo Branco School of Applied Arts / IPCB
GALLERY
DIGRESSION
25 to 29 October 2021
Absolute premiere Temps D'Images Festival
Rua das Gaivotas 6, Lisbon
5 to 19 November 2021
Elvas Exhibition
Instruction and Recreation Society, Elvas
10 to 17 December 2021
Faro Exhibition
LAMA Teatro, Faro
18 May to 19 July 2022
Castelo Branco Exhibition
Francisco Tavares Proença Júnior Museum, Castelo Branco
30 June to 2 July 2022
Covilhã Exhibition
Portas do Sol Festival, Covilhã