Alexandra do Carmo - OFFICE/COMMERCIAL

Alexandra do Carmo - OFFICE/COMMERCIAL
  • Title: OFFICE/COMMERCIAL
  • Dimensions: 30 minutes 45 sec
  • Materials: video ntsc
  • Primary Medium: video
  • Year Created: 2008
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Presenting herself as a major commercially successful international artist, Alexandra do Carmo initiates a path through Brooklyn, New York, pretending to rent an art studio, with the company of a false assistant in town. On each occasion, with a new real estate agent, she is toured through different old manufacturing buildings in the process of conversion to artist studios, collecting video images with the excuse of producing a documentary of her “arrival” in New York for a supposed "major museum exhibition". She is creating a social and political memory of spaces that are being transformed-- confronting them with a past existence in terms of the activities once present or with the very updating and social presentation of the space in order to accommodate artistic activities. more at :http://alexandradocarmo.com/2008-project-office-commercial/statement

Alexandra do Carmo

Alexandra do Carmo

I am a practicing Portuguese artist based in New York. I studied at ar.co (Center of art and visual communication) in Lisbon, Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York, I was part of the residency programs at Location One in New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. My practice focuses on the studio as a lens through with which to investigate the relationship between artist and the public. The projects do not have a defined media a priori, but depend on the context at hand. I work on projects, they are based on ideas—ideas are the primary object of my study, formally they appear through the use of a drawing series, an audio piece, a video piece, a performance or a photograph; they reflect the project’s concerns. Drawing as being used as a tool, a way of documenting thoughts in a serial way, formally they work as a cinematic time line, a testimony of a video or an audio piece. I propose an investigation on the dynamics of authorship. I am very much interested in the discourse between the artist and the public-- on the influence of the audience on the artist and social awareness within art making as a means of generating discussions about the artistic practice.

Website: www.alexandradocarmo.com

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