Carla Cruz

Carla Cruz
1977 Vila Real, Portugal.
Lives in London.
ACADEMIC STUDIES AND TRAINING
Researcher, Mphill/Phd – Goldsmiths University of London, since 2009;
Master in Fine Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, 2003;
Degree in Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of Porto, 2001;
Erasmus Scholarship at Faculdad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Barcelona, Spain, 2001.
Seminar, Sexuated Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics; UCL, London;
Symposium, Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in 1990s, Tate Britain, London,
2010;
Master Class with Catherine de Zegher, Leeds University, Leeds, 2010;
Workshop Atmospheres of Participation, Goldsmiths University of London, 2009;
Workshop, Militant Research: Micropolitics, Goldsmiths University of London, 2009;
Cinema de Vanguarda, Viseu Cineclube, Portugal 2009;
Workshop Active Media 2.0, by Future Places Festival, organised by the University of Austin, Texas,
FBAUP, Porto, 2008;
Workshop Pinhole, Gesto Cultural Cooperative, Porto, 2007;
GPS Drawing with Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood, University of Porto, 2007;
Desvios, Public art, organised by Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro for Transforma: Torres Vedras;
Basic course of Webdesign, Cenatex, Santo Tirso, 2004;
CAP – Certificate of Professional Education, 2003;
Syllabus, bookbinding workshop with Sally Alatalo, Room, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2003;
Sound and Body, workshop, ESMAE, Porto, 2002;
16 millimetres workshop, Filmwerkplatz, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2002;
String puppet construction Workshop at the Volkshochschulle Theatre, Kellingusen, Germany, 2002;
Organisation and participation at the international public art workshop Common Places, FBAUP, Porto,
2001;
Foundry workshop, CINFU, Porto, 2000;
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Participation at the International Public Art Workshop Rethinking the Waterfront, Universidad de
Barcelona, Spain, 2000;
Maconde sculpture workshop, with the Mozambican sculpture Upinde, FBAUP, Porto, 1999.
COORDINATION AND ORGANISATION
Resident curator at the exhibition space – Gesto Cultural Cooperative, Porto, 2007/08;
Co-coordinator of the Affinity Group Switch Metaphors for the European Feminist Forum, 2007/08;
Coordinator of the exhibition project and blog All My Independent Women, since 2005;
Editor of the ID 10 magazine, FBAUP/ Gesto Cultural Cooperative, 2006/07;
Coordinator of the Portuguese group for the Residency GARB.a (Giovanni Artisti in Residencia,
Basilicata) Italy, 2004/05;
Founding member of the collective Atelier Mentol (2003/05), Porto;
Collaborator of the artists-run space ROOM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2002/03;
Founding member of the international public intervention collective, CLANITICA, Rotterdam, 2002/03;
Founding member of the feminist collective of artistic intervention – ZOiNA, 1999/2004;
Founding member of the artist collective Caldeira 213, 1999/2002, Porto.
Working with IDENTIDADES, a group for the cultural exchange between, Brazil, Cape Verde,
Mozambique and Portugal.
ART RESIDENCIES
Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, Brazil, with Identidades, August 2009;
Convocatórias, Residency with NEC for Portoʼs Marionette Festival, 2008;
Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, Brazil, with Identidades, August 2008;
CAUCUS, Becoming Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2007;
Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, Brazil, with Identidades, August 2007;
Centro Cultural Franco Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique, July 2007;
Atljé Stundars, Vaasa, Finland, 2006;
La Criée, Rennes, France, for the project Just A Walk by Jocelyn Cottencin, October 2005;
Garba, Residency for young artists, Basilicata, Italy, 2002.
EMPLOYMENT AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant – Art Department, Goldsmiths University of London;
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Teacher at the Visual Art Department at the ESEV – Superior School of Education, Polytechnic Institute,
Viseu 2007/09;
Class for the specialising course in artistic intervention for public spaces and site-specific production,
Lusófona University, Porto, 2008;
Tutor at ESAD (University of Art and Design) Fashion Tuning workshop, Matosinhos, May 2008;
Tutor of Public Art for NEC (centre for choreographic experimentation) Small gestures in the City – after
Hannula, Porto, 2008;
Tutor at Escola de Moda do Porto (Fashion School of Porto) Fashion Tuning workshop, 2005/06;
Visual Arts Teacher – Public Schools (Braga 2002/03; EB23 Alpendorada, EB23 Travagem, 2004/05)
Art History and Art History and Fashion Teacher at the Professional School – CENATEX – Guimarães,
2003/04.
PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES
Collaboration and the claim for a feminist subjectivity and Editor of AMIW – New Portuguese Letters
publication, for AMIW project 2010;
Participation and collaboration: of the audiences in art practise in the public space, Brno
University of Technology, Faculty of Fine Arts, Czech Republic, March 2010;
Art and feminism, How to Become a Woman Artist, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Fine
Arts, Czech Republic, March 2010;
Será a Questão da manutenção da esfera pública a questão da possibilidade da democracia? for
the publication Totemismo Urbano – performance festival, Porto, 2010;
Visual article for the virtual magazine um café, Outubro 2009;
Participation in the lecture When Art Becomes Public, Casa da Esquina, Coimbra, 2008;
Performance within my art practise, presentation of the book performing art, by Rosalee Goldberg,
published by Orfeu Negro, Porto and Viseu, 2008;
Navegar é preciso, viver não é preciso, article on participation for Voca magazine, 2008;
All My independent women, a case study initiated by the work of Carla Cruz, by João Manuel de
Oliveira, Lisbon, 2008;
Political Art Almanac, reunion projects, London, United Kingdom, 2007;
The Kiss, JUP, Porto 2007;
My practise as a model for the communication: Art as discourse: Identity as commodity: by Rui Pedro
Fonseca Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2007;
Participation in Manga de Colete magazine: etching In war we Trust, Porto, 2007;
Participation in ID 10 magazine, Identidades collective, Porto 2006;
Carla Cruz and Isabel Carvalho, lecture for the: artists and curators, Escola Superior Artística do
Porto, 2005;
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Collaboration for ESAP Guimarães magazine, Public art, Margens e Confluências #9, 2005;
Collaboration for ESAP Guimarães magazine, Audience Participation Margens e Confluências #8,
2004;
Take Action, Virose.pt, 2004;
Lecture, Act2- do you want to manipulate for a change? FBAUP, Porto, 2004;
Trans / Gender, publication by Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2003;
Madam Iʼm Adam, publication by Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2003;
Lecture on art and at the French magazine Worldsigns #3, 2003;
Quoted at Almeida, B. P. 2002, Transição – Ciclopes, mutantes, apocalípticos, Lisbon, Assírio e Alvim;
Presentation about art and public strategies, Individual seed in the information society, organized by
Hinrich Sachs, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2002;
Brief collection of Mozambican Literature, Gesto Cultural Cooperative, illustration, 2000.
WORK PUBLISHED IN CATALOGS
DVD, Sombra Clara, by João Catalão, 2008;
Antena #3, Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Torres Vedras, 2007;
CCVila flor/ Serralves Contemporary Art Museum – Salão Olímpico2003/06, Porto 2007;
Propostas da Arte Portuguesa, Posição 2007 – published by Miguel Von Hafe Perez, Público
Newspaper/ Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, 2007;
Laboratório das Artes, Teleférico – Cais de embarque/operação Transbordo, Guimarães, 2006;
Pelo Douro, 250 years of Douro Region Celebration, 2006;
Last News, curated by Ex-girls, Poland, 2006;
LʼEsperiezia-devenire delle arti, Carla Subrizi, Marco Giovenale, Ilaria Gianni and Francesco
Ventrella, Baruchello Foundation, Italy, 2006;
ARCO 06, Art fair Madrid, 2006;
Bad News, Ex-girls, Poland, 2005;
Supermercado, Margarida Paiva, Oslo, Norway, 2005;
Arte em Campo, Instituto das Artes, Portuguese Ministry of Culture, 2004;
PZ-Final Presentation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2003;
Passa-Porte, Palácio Gallery, Porto 2002;
[+de] 20 grupos e episódios no Porto do século XX, Fátima Lambert and Laura Castro, Palácio
Gallery, Porto 2001;
Alquimias: Dos pensamentos das artes, António Barros, Coimbra, 2000.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
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2009
- Utopias, Cyborgs and Other Tree Houses, page on the local newspapers and intervention
on the public space with: Alberto Magno, Ana Borges, Carolina Lapa, Filipe Gomes, Jorge
Pinheiro, Júlia Ferreira, e Micaela Maia. Performance Art festival Circular, Vila do Conde;
- Navegar é Preciso, Viver não é preciso. Plumba Gallery, Porto.
2008
- School Landscapes, Project on teaching of artistic techniques, Viseu;
2007
- The Kiss – action: Kissing the Prime Minister in the mouth, Casa de Serralves, Contemporary
Art Museum, 21 Abril, Porto;
- Public Porto, residency at Aliados Avenue and in the IC-28 blog, Porto;
- One Woman Show, installation: Plumba Gallery, Porto;
- The Creation of the World, intervention: Transfigurações Efémeras, curated by Vítor
Beiramar Diniz and João Fernandes, Serralves Contemporary Art Museum Park, Porto;
2006
- Fear + Desire, Platform, Vaasa, Finland;
- Welcome, event: Stundars, Vaasa, Finland;
- Penelope Project, performance, Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland;
- Carla is a Mad Woman, Mad Woman in the Attic, Porto.
2005
- Conqueror, performance, Aliados Avenue, Porto;
- All My Independent Women, Installation: SMS Gallery, Guimarães;
- I am Working, Installation, Plumba Gallery, Porto.
2004
- The Ropes, performative platform Portoʼs streets;
- BLOOD 4 OIL stories about petrol, drawing installation: Salão Olímpico, Porto;
- Cabeçudos, drawings and sculpture, Beco Cultural space, São Romão do Coronado.
2003
- To be an artist in Portugal is an act of faith, Photo and video, Casa da Cultura, Trofa;
- The Inauthentic Male, action and Installation, Bruce Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- Performance, To be an artist in Portugal is an act of faith D. Luís Bridge, Porto;
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- Performance ACT3- vending cart, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- ACT2 – do you want to manipulate for a change? Platform for public interaction
Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Genebra (Switzerland);
- TRANSVESTITE/FEMININE, 5er Project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2002
- TRANSVESTITE/FEMININE series of performances for the public, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands;
- Could you do for me with your hands project for public toilets: Rotterdam, Hamburg, Linz,
London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Rome, Antwerp, Paris and Porto;
2001
- Tactile Objects, Municipal Gallery, Trofa.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2010
- States: Plural Radical Democracy, Drawing for Mono, CAP, Coimbra;
- A Childʼs Play, Installation, Young Artists Biennial, Bucharest, Romania;
- Blood 4 oil: estórias do petróleo, Installation for “Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: o
social na coleção Berardo”, curated by Miguel Amado, Museu Berardo, Lisbon.
- FoxPower 800, collaboration with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa and Jose Arnoud Bello; the
Mews, London.
- All My Independent Women, Casa da Esquina, Coimbra, Portugal;
- demoCRACY for Unsurpassable Horizon, curated by Filipa Oliveira and Miguel Amado for
the event No Souls For Sale, at Tate Modern, London;
- Praça do Anjo #3, collaboration with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, at Sousa Ribeiro shop,
for the public art event Troca-se por Arte, Porto;
- Ideal States: Aristoteles and Rancière, drawing for the editorial project: Aliceʼs Guest
Book, Lisbon;
- Collaboration with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa for the editorial project of Jocelyn Cottencin:
Journal of Antecipation, Rennes Biennale;
- May those who are wounded seek no refuge but shed their blood in the world,
performance, Senhorio, Porto.
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2009
- May those who are wounded seek no refuge but shed their blood in the world –
performance, Open International performance festival, Beijing, China; The Mews London,
United Kingdom; Feministizarte Braga and Senhorio Porto Portugal;
- Vestígios with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Júlio de Matos Hospital, Lisbon, 2009;
2008
- Carla's non heroic jobs, for the Independence project, organised by Cecilia Canziani and
Francesco Ventrella, 1:1 projects, Rome, Italy;
- Convocatórias, with Joclécio Azevedo, Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro, Cristiana Azevedo and José
Gomes, for FIMP, Porto;
- To be an artist in Portugal is an act of faith, for the touring show, Café Portugal, curated by
Filipa Oliveira, Bratislava (Slovakia), Évora, Ponta Delgada and Coimbra.
- Toxin du jour public project for the Part-ilha exhibition Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom;
- Toxin du Jour pamphlet for the State of Translocality Project by Bettina Wind and Alexandra
Dias Ferreira; Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
- Uprising, Video for Crosstalk festival, Budapest, Hungary;
- Anjo Square II, with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa for the Gesto Space, with the special
collaboration of Calhau, exhibition and street action, Porto.
2007
- Homoludens/Homophobic and Street Party for Unbuilding of man exhibition, third edition of
the Antena project, curated by Hugo Dinis, Torres Vedras;
- Unexibit, exhibition project with Isabel Carvalho, Miguel Leal, André Sousa, Pedro
Tudela and Muvart, Centro Cultural Franco Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique;
- Unlimited Liability #2, etching: project by Michel Chevalier, Hamburg, Germany;
- All My Independent Women, curatorial project, Casa da Cultura, Trofa;
- Inbox, video: Íman Festival, Casa da Cultura, Famalicão;
- Stitch and Bitch, installation and performance: Sombra Clara, Biscainhos Museum,
Braga;
- Photoshop for the Great Drawing prize show, organisation: Senhorio, Porto;
- BLOOD 4 OIL and ACT2, installation and performance, Last News, Laznia, Gdansk,
Poland;
- Bonjardim – performance with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, A SALA, Porto;
- Lisbon Square, event: with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Apêndice Space, Clérigos
Shopping, Porto.
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2006
- CTL C fanzine for the Teleférico 2 – Operação transbordo, Guimarães;
- Organisation of All My Independent Women #3, collective show on gender,
Eira 33, Lisbon;
- Douro, etching: touring show for the 250 years celebration of the Douro Region;
- Night On Earth – Action with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Porto;
- Jusquʼici tout va bien, with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Plumba Gallery, Porto;
- Rainbow Picnic: action with Isabel Carvalho, for the Em Torno project curated by André
Guedes, NEC, Porto;
- Unlimited Liability, Flipbook, project by Michel Chevalier, Hamburg, Germany;
- There is no Memory of Peace on Earth, Video and European Dream: for the Encontro de
Arte Jovem, Chaves (Acquisition Prize);
- BLOOD 4 OIL and Penelope Project, drawing Installation and performance for: Bad News,
Kronika, Bythom, Poland;
- Could you do for me with your hands?, slide show: Narratives, Sete Gallery, Coimbra;
- Back Home, sculpture and sound (By Marta Von Oíóai), Plumba Gallery, Porto;
- European Dream, sculpture and sound (By Marta Von Oíóai), City Scapes, Plumba Gallery, at
Arco, Madrid, Spain;
- Artist at Work, performance, City Scapes, Plumba Gallery at Arco, Madrid, Spain;
- Europe, collaboration with Ângelo Ferreira de Sousa, Transportável Space, Notícias de
Guimarães;
- Maintenance art, performance for 27 artistas uma casa para demolir, Laboratório das Artes,
Guimarães;
- All My Independent Women, 100ª página, Braga;
- EUROPA, sculpture: Supermercado, Seiduken Gallery, Oslo, Norway;
- Lʼesperienza-devenire delle arti, Baruchello Foundation, Rome, Italy;
- Individual, Drawing, Plumba Gallery, Porto.
2005
- Citizen///activist, Public art project, Tʼarte, Guimarães;
- Desire, Drawing: collaboration with Suzanne Van Rossenberg, PÊSSEGO prá SEMANA,
Porto;
- Private #1, curatorial project, Identidades Space, Porto;
- Europe, sculpture for: 16 salas 16 artistas, Laboratório das Artes, Guimarães;
- Something about Nothing, photography, Plumba Gallery, Porto.
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2004
- Mr. Prime Minister, for Arte non Stop, curated by VOʼarte, Amadora;
- PRINTROOM #04, artists books, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- No nuke, project coordinator, GARBa, Italy;
- Podium, performance for the event: “quando o minuto se arrasta”, Salão Olímpico, Porto;
- N14, with Isabel Carvalho and Catarina Melo, Trofa Space, Trofa;
- 7 plus 7 is 14 with 7, 21, curatorial project, Casa da Cultura, Trofa;
- Dry Cleaning, for Balancette #3, collaboration with Catarina Carneiro de Sousa, Porto.
2003
- La Balancette, intervention in collaboration with Isabel Carvalho, Porto;
- Podium, street performance for Ex-sight public art exhibition, organised by Home Gallery,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- N5M Tactical Media, swap meeting, De Geuzen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
- Freebienalle, Venice Biennial, Italy;
- Touring PrintROOM, Witte de With, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and Gertrude House,
Melbourne, Australia;
- PrintROOM – curatorial project, ROOM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- Room, the shop around the corner, ROOM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2002
- Noites Belas, slide show, Labirinto, Porto;
- Video screening” shadow theatre” 5er – project space, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- I am a Café Boy, multimedia installation for Pass-a-porte, Palácio Gallery, Porto;
- No vi preocupari, public intervention, Montescaglioso, Italy;
- Act 1, performance for Ramble project, Ram Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- You can fool all the people some of the time and you can fool some people all the time,
but you cannot full all the people all the time, Collaboration with Nina Hoechtl, under the
name CANI, Ramble project, Ram Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- Transvestite, sticker design for Unibuza, a project by Jeroen Jongelen, de Appel, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands;
- BlikBak, collaboration with Sabine Funk, Transpublic, Linz, for the les 33 event, Het Wilde
Weten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
- Transvestite –actions on daily life for Madam I am Adam project, Linz, Austria;
- Transvestite –actions on daily life”, performance, Depot, Vienna, Austria.
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2001
- What you give is what you get, the importance of being here” project with Bick van der Pol
which ended with the creation of the international collective CLANITICA: Carla Cruz (pt), Claudia
Van Dijk (nl), Nina Hoechtl (a), and Tina Sejbjerg (dn), and with the presentation of a game for
public space;
- Olla de Grills, performance, Taller Oberts, Taller 45, Barcelona, Spain.
2000
- Set Design for: Tiestes by Seneca and Navalha na carne by Plíneo Marcos for Anjos
Pornográficos theatre company, Porto;
- Selected for the printing Biennial, Bologna, Italy;
- Anchor for Nómadas, organized by Coiote, Caldeira 213, Porto.
COLLECTIVES
IDENTIDADES – Cultural exchange movement between Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Portugal.
Worked with the group between 1998 and 2001 and again in 2003. In 2006/07 was part of the editorial
team for the ID10 magazine and since 2007 is part of the core team for the project Deslocações,
working with the Brazilian community of Conceição das Crioulas;
CALDEIRA 213 – Artistic association formed in October 1999, Porto. Composed by 10 young artists,
that had as a headquarters the number 213 of Caldeireiros street. The space was stage for for over a
hundred events, many of which where organised by its members and artists of various nationalities.
ZOiNA – Feminist group of artistic intervention, formed in 1999 by Ana Medeira, Carla Cruz, Catarina
Carneiro de Sousa and Isabel Carvalho. The group worked on gender questions using the most diverse
media.
CLANITICA – collaboration with Claudia Van Dijk, Nina Hoechtl and Tina Sejbjerg. The group worked
on issues related to communication and the use of public space.
ATELIERS MENTOL – Collective formed in 2003 by: Carla Cruz, Isabel Carvalho and Pedro Nora.
“Alert to our surrounding context we faced the growing desertification and mutation of Portoʼs downtown.
We decided not to be mere spectators of this process but its agents, to question and understand this
change.” The collective organise small artistic interventions at Portoʼs public spaces. During two years
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worked with: Carla Filipe Carlos Barros, Miguel Bonneville, Catarina Carneiro de Sousa, Ângelo Ferreira
de Sousa, Luís Eustáquio, Ricardo Quaresma Vieira and Valter Pratas. Was active in the public space,
organised home dinners for ʻstrangersʼ and performative auctions.
SWITCH METAPHORS – Art as a tool. Carla Cruz (PT), Nina Hoechtl (A), Suzanne van Rossenberg
(NL), and Francesco Ventrella (IT), propose to discuss if (and how) art can be a tool to disintegrate or
subvert hetero normative power structures. Each of us with its won practise (artistic, curatorial or
theoretical) is confronted with the pre-established parameters that determine our art practise. We try to
find ways of working with those same parameters, or to avoid them or still to redefine them. This options
influence our position (economical) on the different art circuits.
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