Exhibition “Poetry as an echological survival”, by Nuno da Luz

With its opening scheduled for 7th March at 7:30 pm, the “Poetry as an echological survival” exhibition by Nuno da Luz, curated by Nuno Crespo, the Catholic School of Arts in Porto director. This residency program was developed under the auspices of an erroneous quote (or otherwise) from Álvaro Lapa: «poetry as an echological survival» (derived from the essay by the American poet and environmentalist Gary Snyder, «Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique»). Lapa withdraws «technique» and adds an «h» to «ecological», transforming «eco-» (from Greek «oikos», home) into «echo» («ēchos», sound). This (poetic) deviation, in which ecology and echoing become a single double movement, enables us to rethink certain acoustic phenomena, such as reverberation and resonance, as environmental and social processes.

The exhibition serves as a speculative inquiry into how this movement can be an operative tool for situating ourselves – and our surroundings – in reciprocal relations of mutual cooperation. The “Poetry as an echological survival” exhibition by Nuno da Luz remains on display to the public in the School of Arts Exhibition Hall until April 5th.

The inauguration of this exhibition is preceded by the Open Classroom "Echological Survival", under the program Art & Ecology, which will be presented by the artist Nuno da Luz and the Baroque Saucer Commander, representing the Portuguese Navy Hydrographic Institute. 

Courtesy: Galeria Vera Cortês

Residence Support: Inresidenceporto, with support from Porto Municipal Council

Start Date: March 8, 2019
End Date: April 5, 2019

Venue: School of Arts Exhibition Hall

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday | 2 pm - 7 pm | Free entrance

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NUNO DA LUZ
(Lisbon, 1984)

Nuno da Luz lives and works in Lisbon. Artist and publisher, his work circumscribes both the auditory and the visual in the form of sound events, installations and printed material; the latter are mostly distributed by atlas publishers Projectos (together with André Romão and Gonçalo Sena) and Palmario Recordings (together with Joana Escoval). She recently completed the master's program Experimentation in Art and Politics speap in Sciences Po, Paris and founded the multidisciplinary collective Coyote, which investigates new forms of common-ification (creating community) via publications, films, conferences and other experimental formats (together with artists Tristan Bera and Ana Vaz, journalist Elida Høeg and publisher Clémence Seurat).

More recent projects include the live performances "with Assisted Resonance" in Ficarra (Italy), Paris, New York, Porto and Berlin; as well as his solo exhibition environments at Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática, in Vila do Conde. Other solo exhibitions include RWSNK ECHOS, Kunstraum Botschaft, (Berlin, 2017), Sud and Magia, Syntax (Lisbon, 2016), Wilderness, Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon, 2015), laissez vibrer, enblanco projektraum (Berlin, 2013) and cave/Solar (Vila do Conde, 2013), and "Our silence is a warning, our silence is solid", Vera Cortês Art Agency (Lisbon, 2012). More recent group exhibitions include, among others, "cidra da luz escoval mendes romão sena", AR Sólido (Lisbon, 2015), "Ficarra_Contemporary Divan", Palazzo Milio (Ficarra, 2015), "A polyphonic wave of concrete materials flowing through the air", Espaço Artes (Porto, 2014), and "12 Contemporaries: Present States", Museu de Serralves (Porto, 2014). He has participated in several residency programs, namely Cité internationale des arts (2015), Residency Unlimited (2014), and Sound Art Braunschweig Projects (2013).