The Lewis Center for the Arts’ is set to present a screening and lecture by interdisciplinary artist José Carlos Teixeira.
The screening and talk, titled Shared Spaces. Alterity Revisited, features recent video projects on the connections with architecture and examining broader questions in contemporary art.
Teixeira is a visual artist and researcher born in Portugal. His research-based practice involves video-essay, installation, performance and related photography.
Three main axes shape Teixeira’s interdisciplinary work: art and politics, art and community, and art and technology, raising the question of whether these ideas represent a collision or a productive encounter.
Notions of identity, otherness, language, boundary, exile and displacement are recurrent themes in Teixeira’s creative and theoretical investigation. Through performative strategies, his pieces explore issues related to locational identity, global diaspora, the limits (or overlapping) of personal and social territories, and the definition of physical and psychological spaces.
His work attempts to generate not a set of conclusions, but a continuous process of inquiry. Usually coming from a subjective and contextual approach, the artist focuses on collaboration, participation, and dialogue, therefore incorporating multiple voices into his moving image projects. The relationship with and the representation of “otherness” occupy a central role in Teixeira’s aesthetic and ethic materializations.
As a Fulbright scholar, Teixeira completed his M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California Los Angeles in 2006, after having previously studied at New York University and the University of Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain. He holds a B.F.A. degree from the School of Fine Arts at the University of Porto.
He has been involved in various projects, exhibitions, festivals, and screenings across Europe, in the U.S. and in Singapore, China, Brazil, Chile, South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, and Cape Verde. Hi
Currently, Teixeira is the Champney Visiting Associate Professor, a joint position between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Institute of Art.
The screening is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 31 in the Patricia and Ward Hagan ‘48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
More information is online at arts.princeton.edu.
