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Mark
CURRICULUM VITAE
Plastic Arts, Performance, Curating, Cultural Programming, Cultural Production, Cultural Communication, Graphic Design.


EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2024
Performance “no thanks, I can do it”, Casa Museu Teixeira Lopes
As part of the prarallel performance program integrating the exhibition “Jaime Isidoro and Vila Nova de Gaia: 50 years after the 1st International Art Meeting”, Curatorship: Helena Mendes Pereira (PT), (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)
2024
Interpreter in “O AR É DE TODOS” by Guilherme de Sousa and Pedro Azevedo (BLUFF)
Produced by Teatro Universitário do Porto, in Fernando Távora Auditorium (Porto, Portugal)
2023
Performance “dear eestimaa”, Copperleg Art Residency - Rae Koolimaja
(Vaskjala, Estonia)
2023
Collective Exhibition “A Possibilidade de uma Ilha”, Polo das Gaivotas + Fábrica da Creatividade + Galleri Artsight
Curatorship: Terceira Pessoa (PT) and Darling Desperados (SE); (Lisbon and Castelo Branco, Portugal + Stockholm, Sweden)
2023
Performance at collective exhibition “Perspetiva 24”, Museum of the  Art Cerveira Biennial 
Curatorship: Helena Mendes Pereira (PT) and João Ribas (PT); (Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal)
2023
Performance at paralell program of the collective exhibition “(Un)Common Proximity”, Galeria Bello-Galesterer
Curatorship: Alexia Alexandropolou (GR ), (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023
Collective exhibition “MNEMOSYNE”, AL859 Artspace
(Porto, Portugal)
2023
Multimedia performance, DES/ORIENTE
Curatorship: Rachel Merlino (BR) and Laís França (BR); (Porto, Portugal)
2023
Collective exhibition “Lifeline”, Young Municipal Gallery
(Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal)
2023
Collective exhibition “FoMe XI”, A Gráfica
(Setúbal, Portugal)
2023
Performance and land-art installation, Geografía Poética
Curatorship: Holga Méndez (ES) and Belén Díez (ES); (Teruel, Spain)
2023
Site-specific installation “line between us [knots]”, Gallery of Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul
Curatorship: Andreia César (PT); (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022
Collective exhibition “Small Formats” at Galeria Monumental
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022
Collective exhibition “Young Creators National Showcase”, Fórum Municipal Romeu Correia
(Almada, Portugal)
2022
Intervention in public space, Zigurfest festival
Curatorship: João Pedro Fonseca (PT);(Lamego, Portugal)
2022
Performance and Installation, Futureless Festival
Curatorship: Paola Torres Núñez del Prado (PE); (Stockholm, Sweden)
2022
Collective Exhibition “Blind Date”, Fábrica Braço de Prata (promoted by LisbonWeek)
Curatorship: Filipa Oliveira (PT); (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022
Intervention in public space, LisbonWeek festival
Curatorship: Filipa Oliveira (PT); (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022
Collective Exhibition “We shall go to the Future” at Zet Gallery 
Curatorship: Helena Mendes Pereira (PT); (Braga, Portugal)
2022
Performance and Installation “BIO-eˉlektron”, eˉlektron 
(Tallinn, Estonia)
2021
Collective Exhibition "RESIDENTES", Largo Residências
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2021
Collective Exhibition "Space, Time, Matter", Estação Sul e Sueste (Convent Madre de Deus da Verderena)
Curatorship: Frederico Vicente (PT); (Barreiro, Portugal)
2021
Collective Exhibition “Soft Narratives”, EKA Gallery (EKA)
Curatorship: Varvara Guljajeva (EE); (Tallinn, Estonia)
2021
Collective Exhibition "TASE" at Vent Space Gallery
(Tallinn, Estonia)
2017
Collective Exhibition  "SEM RETORNO" at OMuseu (FBAUP)
Curatorship: Luís Nunes (PT); (Porto, Portugal)

 RESIDENCIES
2023
Art Residency, Copperleg Art Residency
(Vaskjala, Estonia)
2023
Art Residency, Órbita#5 - Festival Súbito (at Galeria Aartes and Sekoia Performative Arts)
(Porto, Portugal)
2023
Art Residency, Geografía Poética
(Teruel, Spain)
2023
Art Residency, (DES)ORIENTE
(Porto, Portugal)
2022
Art Residency, ZONA Lamego
(Lamego, Portugal)
2022
Art Residency, LisbonWeek
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 > 2022
Curatorial Residency, Largo Residências
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 > 2022
Art Residency, STARTS.EE
Tallinn, Estonia)
2021
Art Residency, Vent Space Gallery
(Tallinn, Estonia)

PROJECTS & ART EXPERIENCE
2022 > CURRENT
Member of KAIRÓS Network of Young Researchers International network of young researchers on behalf of responsible social and educational transformation
2024
Production Director at Diana Policarpo’s sound installation project “ALEA” (co-produced with LEHMANN+SILVA Gallery)
At the Livraria Lello Foundation - Leça do Balio Monestery (Porto, Portugal)
2021 > 2024
Co-founder of Project, Research & Curating Collective Mais Uno +1 Collective working with experimental, transdisciplinary, participatory and situated art practices, (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 > 2023
Mentor of Educational Activities at: Castelo d’If’s Children’s Illustration Fair, Prisma Studios LX Sociedade de Instrução Guilherme Cossoul, and Pátio da Juventude - Câmara Municipal Vila Franca de Xira,
(Lisbon and Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal)
2022 > 2023
Co-founder of Portal Ecosystem
Artistic ecosystem that generates local resources and infra-structures to support artists. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022 > 2023
Team Member of Artists Anonymous Meetings
Artist community focused in sharing and supporting others in their art practice, (Porto & Lisbon, Portugal)
2021 > 2022
Co-founder of Mart's Garage Open-Artist ResidenceBi-monthly open residency at artist Mart Veelma's studio and garage exploring spontaneity and different dynamics of relation between space, materials and others, (Tallinn, Estonia)
2021
“Artist of the month” at the "Art & Craft" group in Residências Refúgio
Organizing weekly workshops in silkscreen print and collage for a group of local artists, migrants and refugees; planning and producing a line of commercial products based on the outcomes (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 > 2021
Gallery Guard at EKA Gallery
Tasks: organizing, providing information, assisting sales, and occasional support at exhibitions and performances (Tallinn, Estonia)
AGO 2020
& JUN 2021
Installing Assistant at EKA Gallery
Tasks: assisting with exhibition mounting at the TASE festival (Tallinn, Estonia)
2019 > 2020
Organizing Team Member at Vent Space Gallery
Estonian Academy of Arts' student-run gallery (Tallinn, Estonia) / Tasks: Gallery Managing, Event Organization, Curating, Communication & Social Media
2020
Scenography for Interdisciplinary Performance Project Rings at the performative arts festival MiniCOMMUTE#2
Interdisciplinary performance project combining textiles, choreography, music composition and technology, (Tallinn, Estonia)
2014
Performance/Choreography forOcupação do Chão Corpóreo” by Marília Costa Performative-drawing project exploring the relationship between space and body by using movement to map biographic spaces, (Porto, Portugal)

DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION EXPERIENCE
2015
> CURRENT
Freelance Graphic Designer
Relevant clients: Aare Carpet Design, UNDO Design Studio, Serralves Foundation, Muratto, S-E Atelier, Porto’s Film Club
2015 > 2015
Editorial Design Curricular Intern at Non-Verbal Club
(Porto, Portugal) / Tasks: Conceptualization, content curating, editing and editorial design of a mockup Magazine
   
TALKS & CONFERENCES
2022
Speaker at First Meeting of the Kairós Young Researchers Network (UNAM — National Autonomous University of Mexico)Presenting the artistic research “Common Body: voice and movement as tools to create accessibility within Contemporary Art”
2022
Invited speaker at  HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design (University of Gothemburg)Presenting the project “mais uno +1” for the Masters program in Curating and Comissioning Contemporary Public Art
2022
Speaker at International Conference EDGES -
International Meeting of Art and Science Groups

UNESP (Brazil), EKA (Estonia), and UAM (Mexico); Presenting: “BIO-eˉlektron - creating a physical, visual, sonic, and haptic composition from bio-feedback”
2020
Speaker at Art of Research International Conference
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art (Helsinki, Finland); Art of Research VII: Authorship and Responsibility - Session 5. Joint Responsibilities; Chair: Anniina Suominen
2020
Presenter at the event EKA Open Doors
Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)

PUBLICATIONS
2023
Full Paper Publication in ISEA Conference ProceedingsISEA 2023 - SYMBIOSIS, 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art, May 16-21, Paris
Title: "Bio Elektron - A Multisensory Approach to Augmenting Dance, Combining: Biosignals, Drawing, Sound and Electrical Feedback"; Authors: Nuno N. Correia, Debora Souza, Inês Nêves, Jaime Lobato, DOI: 10.69564/ISEA2023-49-full-Correia-et-al-Bio-Elektron
2023
Publication in the independent magazine FoMe XI
Redaction and Editing of the article “Empty Room: The expansion of an intimate sphere”
2021
Full Paper Publication in Research in Arts and Education Journal February Issue, SPECIAL ISSUE on Art of Research VII: Authorship and Responsibility
Title: "Creative exchange through joint responsibility: designing performances in multidisciplinary teams in the educational context"; Authors: Inês Rodrigues Neves, Claudia Díaz Reyes, Ismini Pacchi, Arife Dila Demir, Kristi Kuusk, DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.119319

PRIZES AND DISTINCTIONS
2022
Winner of Young Creator’s National Showcase’s Painting PrizePromoted by the National Institute of Sports and Youth and Gerador Association (Portugal)
2013
Winner of “Quero Estudar Melhor” merit scholarshipPromoted by Expresso Newspaper and Prebuild (Portugal)

EDUCATION
2024
Initiation to Interpretation Course
Porto’s University Theatre (TUP)
2022 > 2023
Participant in Das Haus LAB#5
Experimental and free concept online group to encourage and support international multidisciplinary professionals on their career development and ongoing projects 
2018
> 2021

Masters Degree in Design & Crafts: Textile Art and Design
Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, Estonia) / winner of Result-Based Scholarship (2019 and 2020) / graduated with A Cum Laude
2020
Course in Contemporary Art Markets: a Historical, Analytic and Utilitarian Perspective
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2013 > 2017
Bachelors Degree in Communication DesignFaculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal) / winner of merit scholarship Quero Estudar Melhor
2016
Erasmus+ program in Graphic Design
St.Joost School of Art & Design ('s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands)