<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Porto, Casa das Artes, February 19, 2016<br class=""><br class="">UNKNOWN RECIPIENT<br class="">International Conference<br class=""><br class="">February 19, 18h<br class="">Casa das Artes, Porto, Portugal<br class=""><br class="">Program<br class="">Alberto Ruiz de Samaniego - Ni de uno de ni de otro. La presencia no<br class="">tiene signo<br class="">Eduarda Neves - Destinatário desconhecido<br class="">Ernesto Neto - Aru Kuxipa<br class="">Fernando José Pereira - A armadilha da luz<br class="">Manuel Loff - A memória - um campo de batalha<br class="">Monica Coralli - Tofinous et Lébous: entre rácit autochtone et<br class="">résistence spatiale<br class="">Chair: Nuno Rodrigues<br class="">Organization: Project Correspondences; CEAA | Centro de Estudos Arnaldo<br class="">Araújo - Art and critical studes research group; ESAP | Escola Superior<br class="">Artística do Porto<br class=""><br class="">Project CORRESPONDENCES - II Exhibition<br class="">February 6-21<br class="">Casa das Artes, Porto, Portugal<br class="">Amarante Abramovici, Covadonga Barreiro, João Vasco Paiva, Sérgio<br class="">Leitão, Tânia Dinis<br class=""><br class="">UNKNOWN RECIPIENT<br class=""><br class="">With this designation, we will seek to focus the debate around the<br class="">various mystifications of the Other, be it political, sexual, clinical,<br class="">cultural or ethnic and whose celebration we witness since the last<br class="">decades of the previous century. As mythical place of otherness this<br class="">UNKNOWN RECIPIENT often seems as a theoretical construction of the<br class="">artist, historian, philosopher or critic, crossing through their own<br class="">agendas, representations and énnoncés.<br class="">In exhibitions and biennials, meetings, studies and funded academic<br class="">debates, the Other, claiming more and more the space of the emerging<br class="">market, there seems to have found its place, recoding meanings and<br class="">inscribing them in new identities.<br class="">Memory and the writing of History will confer body to temporality. From<br class="">criticism to a tagged art, designated, among many examples, as<br class="">Brazilian, Asian, African, Post-colonial art, to social construction of<br class="">memory of oppression or to identity issues and spatial games in two<br class="">African capitals, we will furthermore seek to question to what extent<br class="">"Art makes life more interesting than art", as Tristan Tzara used to<br class="">say.<br class="">Just like a postcard, it will be our intention to deviate external<br class="">speech from any binary form. This does not concern the defense of an<br class="">absolute Other but, instead, has to do with reflecting upon an UNKNOWN<br class="">RECIPIENT, one without precise direction, without nationality. Just<br class="">like Art, like Life, like an Equal.<br class=""><br class="">Project Correspondences conception and programming: Eduarda Neves<br class="">site of the project: <a href="http://correspondencias.weebly.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://correspondencias.weebly.com/</a></body></html>