27.07
ESA05 RIBEIRA GRANDE
Ricardo Jacinto
The Parliament of Charybdis IV
Arquipélago Centro de Artes
Ribeira Grande
7:30pm
This show, defined by its creator as a 'concert-installation’ for cello, electronics, resonant objects and multi-channel broadcasting system', is the result of a challenge by Encontros 2022 to the artist Ricardo Jacinto, known for his multi-disciplinary career. According to its author, it is 'a project of music and installation which began in 2021 and now reaches its fourth iteration. Rescuing the image of Caríbdis (a mythological figure whose stormy and threatening force, in the shape of a maritime whirlpool, swallowed up everything that came near it) this parliament is constituted as a poetic territory dedicated to exploring the forces of construction and destruction inherent to places of collective interaction. This presentation gives continuity to a narrative of multiple resonances and formal and conceptual unfoldings. Initiated with a flight over the ruin of a threshing floor (an ancestral space of work and community meeting), the Parliament of Caríbdis now summons the power of insularity for the sonic and spatial design of this concert-installation.'
RICARDO JACINTO
Musician, visual artist or architect with artistic and academic research focused on the relations between sound, improvisation and territory in transdisciplinary practices. He is a founding member and artistic director of the OSSO collective and holds a PhD from the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University Belfast. Since 1998 he has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions, concerts and performances in Portugal, Europe and Brazil.
With a vast interest in collaborative processes, he has developed numerous projects with other artists, musicians, architects and performers. He promoted, directed and supported the development of collective creation projects such as PARQUE (2001-2015) or INVASOR ABSTRACTTO (2019-22).
He was co-organizer of programming projects such as ECOS: Listening and Place (2013-14) or EIRA: radio platform for artistic residencies (2020). His music has been edited by Clean Feed, Shhpuma Records and Creative Sources, and his installations are present in several national collections. He co-represented Portugal at the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale 2006 and his work has been presented in venues such as Culturgest_Lisbon, Fundação de Serralves_Porto, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian_Lisbon and Paris, Palais de Tokyo_Paris, Mudam_Luxembourg, Teatro Maria Matos_Lisbon, Museu Vostell_Cáceres, Casa da Música, CCB, Manifesta 07_Roveretto, Galeria Vermelho_São Paulo, Frac Loraine_Metz, OK CENTRE_Linz, among others.