Territory, PADA, Portugal
Students from Professional School Bento de Jesus Caraga - Barreiro with Diana Cerezino, Andy Parker and some cardboard gates
On the 1st November 2022 I went to Barreiro, Lisbon to produce new work as a selected artist for OSR projects’ contribution to Territory, a collaboration between UK-based Sluice and Portugal-based PADA:
Territory refers to possession, conflict and control, it speaks of history and consequences. Territory is managed space; marked for development or protected or exploited for raw materials, used to displace or contain it is socially constructed. The production of Territory is the institutionalisation of space to achieve control. Territory manifests a slow transgenerational violence.
Sluice and PADA brought together an interdisciplinary selection of artist and curator-led projects to explore the impact and interconnections of the ecological, environmental and political consequences of this violence.
Territory was a year long focus which culminated in Lisbon 11 - 13 November 2022. The event ran in conjunction with Lisbon Art Weekend with exhibitions, performances, screenings and talks situated throughout the Barreiro district.
https://sluice.info/lisbon.html
I produced a series of full size farm gates using cardboard salvaged from the surrounding industrial area, which you can see here.
Installation view of Sailing Equipped (open gratings, divisions or bulkheads in a greater number than are necessary), 2022. Salvaged cardboard, tape, glue, household paint, plastic bags. Dimensions variable. With chalk elements from Simon Lee Dicker’s installation see-an-enemy. PADA, Barreiro, Portugal
