biography / biografia – Samuel Silva

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Samuel has a consolidated experience working through collaborative processes and interdisciplinary teams. He has been researching on interstitial places in between artistic experimentation in the context of non-formal education and contemporary art projects which develop relational methods and public participation. In recent years, the research focus has been on learning environments informed by contemporary artistic practices in schools and museums.

Since 2005 he has been developing a multidisciplinary work involving different media such as photography, video, installation, drawing and artist books . He graduated in 2006 in the field of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, where after two years ended a Masters in Contemporary Art Practices. He concluded PHD in 2015 in the field of Art and Education, researching participatory practices in contemporary art. Since 2010 he is Professor in Intermedia Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Occasionally, he has been curating exhibitions in the independent circuit.

Lives and works in Porto.

research focus

Collaborative Art Practices, Art Education and Social Context, Contemporary Art, Non-formal Learning Environments, Art practice and Communities, Social Sculpture

work experience

2018
Professor, PhD in Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto: Teaching on Sculpture Department;

2017
Professor, PhD in Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto: Teaching on Intermedia Studio (B.A.);

2016
Guest Professor, PhD in School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Porto: Planning and teaching different issues on art and social education field: Drawing; Materials and Processes of Representation; Art education on social context; Visual Communication Practice.

2010-2016
Assistant Professor, PhD in Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto: Teaching on Intermedia Studio (B.A.);

Coordinator of curatorial program of Painel – School Exhibition Space

Collaborator Member of i2ads (Art Education Nucleus)

Guest lecturer on PhD Course of Art Education Department Guest Lecturer on Master of Art and Design for the Public Space

Advisor and co-advisor of several Master thesis

Art residences coordinator

2007-2018
Artist-educator on several Art Institutions: Contemporary Art Museum of Serralves, International Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Santo Tirso, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (DK), Vila Flor Cultural Center, House of stories – Paula Rego Museum Consultant for educational programs; Leading seminars and trainings on art mediation; Leading collaborative art projects on communities; Special needs research projects.

since 2005
Visual Artist, has been developing a multidisciplinary work involving different media such as photography, video, installation, drawing, artist-books, experimental poetry, documentary and animation film.

education

2014 PhD on Art Education, Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto;

2008 Master on Contemporary Artistic Practices, Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto

2006 B.A on Sculpture, Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto

additional education

2018
International Meeting on Museum Education & Research /IMMER #1 – I2ADS – Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade – Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto/ Fundação Museu do Douro Tópico: Rethinking Museum Theory and Practices

2016
Masterclass Radical Museology orientada por Claire Bishop, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

2012
Colóquio Em nome das artes ou em nome dos públicos? Pensando os conceitos de mediação, emancipação e participação dos públicos – Culturgest / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

2011
Encontros “Artes e Comunidades” – Centro Cultural Vila Flor- Guimarães Semináro “As mãos negativas” orientado por João Sousa Cardoso

2011
Curso de laboratório de som – formação contínua – Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto Laboratório de som: estruturação visual para composição sonora orientado por Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

Ciclo Improvisações/ Colaborações – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Get Down and Party. Together: exploring participatory practices in contemporary art orientado por Albert Potrony

2011
Programa Arte, Política, Globalização – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves

Seminário Arquivo e Anacronia orientado por João Sousa Cardoso.

2010
Summerschool – Tate Modern (Londres)

Uma semana de pensamento e prática em torno das relações entre a prática artística contemporânea e a educação artística.

2010
Seminário Internacional – Engage (Berlim)

Crossing Boundaries: Where does the international art world intersect with gallery education?

2009
Gruntvig Learning Partnership (Dublin e Roma)

European Museum Education and Young People

2008
Seminário AG Prata – Reflexões periódicas sobre fotografia – Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Cinema Passos Manuel.

other relevant experiences

2017
Participação na Mobilidade Erasmus + na Academia de Artes da Islândia onde orientou um workshop e uma palestra intitulada “Learning environments in between art and education: the invention of my place”.

2016-2017
Consultor para os serviços e plataformas educativas do Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea; concepção de conteúdos, formação de técnicos e acompanhamento das actividades.

2016
Participação como Artista-investigador convidado no “Danish Art Museums Encounter – Educational Departments” onde orientou o workshop “Sometimes doing something leads to nothing, but____”

2015-2016
Coordenador do Programa Educativo “Projecto Anual com Escolas 2015-2016” no Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, com o tema “As imagens do corpo”

2015
Coordenador do projecto de investigação para Necessidades Especiais – avaliação e optimização do programa educativo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves para públicos com deficiência.

2015
Participação com artista-educador no Interfluxus Program [Babel(Macau), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Universidade Católica do Porto e a Academia de Cinema de Beijing] com o workshop “One minute of childhood” e a conferência “About identity: the body, the word, the object, the landscape: a conversation from a few videos and artist books of the Serralves Museum Collection”.

2012
Participação como artista convidado no Turbine Generation International Summer School (Dinamarca) em colaboração com Tate Modern, Museu de Serralves e Stedelijk Museum e o Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Desenvolveu o projecto colaborativo “More than Walking”.

2012
Participou (em colaboração com José Maia e José Peneda) no projecto de investigação “Criadores: projectos curatoriais entre capitais europeias da cultura Porto 2001 e Guimarães 2012. Trabalho integrado no Curators ́Lab/ Laboratório de Curadoria do Porgrama Arte e Arquitectura, Guimarães 2012 Capital Europeia da Cultura.

2012
Participou no Projecto colaborativo de reinterpretação do mixed-media “Almada, Um Nome de Guerra e Nós Não Estamos Algures” de Ernesto de Sousa sob a orientação de João Sousa Cardoso