Filipe Silva and Jonathan Saldanha

SOOPA – Platform for Cultural Creation (Porto, Portugal)

Chair: Maria Mire

November 19, 18h30

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Abstract​

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An archive of videos, photos, sounds, and texts coming out of concerts and performances reveals the cosmological relationships of the multidisciplinary platform for international creation SOOPA. Two elements of the group, Filipe Silva and Jonathan Saldanha, will give an overview of 20 years of collective creation and curatorial activity in the city of Porto and abroad. The work of SOOPA has regularly contributed to the artistic agenda of the city and has eventually spread beyond its original territory. 

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Bio

 

SOOPA is a proteiform, multi-cephalous, international art and music platform oriented around a collective of artists and thinkers; a sound, visual and performance laboratory with a longstanding activity based in Porto. SOOPA is a cosmos working in the fields of: autopoiesis, home-made science fiction, fabricated traditional cultures, the mapping of invisible territories, inner station jungle, radio magnetic animism and the great unsounded chaos. SOOPA’s activities include the production and release of music and publications, the promotion of concerts and conferences, and the creation of scenic and filmic pieces, in a continuous and multifaceted process of research. Founded in 1999 by Jonathan Saldanha, SOOPA is formed by Catarina Miranda, Dayana Lucas, Diogo Tudela, Filipe Silva, Benjamin Brejon, Frédéric Alstadt, João Pais Filipe and Nicolas Esterle.

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