Category: Presentation

Burrow
Chloë Janssens and Vera Sofia Mota 
11-12 June 2022
End presentations of a.pass postgraduate program

LIMA Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/), May 19, 2021, Online. UNFOLD: Nan Hoover – https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/article/unfold-nan-hoover UNFOLD: Nan Hoover is a one-day reinterpretation festival. On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, artists, experts, writers, programmers will shed their light on the oeuvre of the media art pioneer Nan Hoover (1931 – 2008). The festival is the third edition of LIMA`s reinterpretation programme and gives many possible answers to the question of what the work is, or can be, today. What does it take to keep a media artwork in constant flux, continuously appropriated by artists and makers of all sorts? UNFOLD encourages artists, thinkers and the […]

A dead woman`s a strange thing* by Vera Sofia Mota  LUSO 2019 – 18.01.2019 at / à 19:40Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Paris – 39 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris, France A dead woman`s a strange thing How does a dead body feel like? What to do with it? To bury, to burn it, to conserve it, to let it be? To forget, to remember it? What`s inevitable and what`s possible? What constitutes death? Would death be defined as opposed to life? What constitutes life? A living woman`s a strange thing. — Vera Sofia Mota (1982) is a Portuguese artist based in Berlin […]

Multiplicity in Practice: Emergent Compositions by Vera Sofia Mota Research Presentation: Master of Theatre Practices June 14, 2018 –  Studio 20 – 16:00 to 17:00 – ArtEZ – University of the Arts, Onderlangs 9 – 6812 CE Arnhem – The Netherlands. Multiplicity in Practice: Emergent Compositions `Multiplicity in practice` and `emergent compositions` are my working methods and they can have artistic and (political-)ethical implications. In my 2-year active research (2014-16) and my 2-year passive research (2016-18) I used both in the composition and research for performative works and in my writing, which focused mainly on the work conditions of artists now-a-days. […]

Untitled (Unfold, Nan Hoover) by Vera Sofia Mota & Fransien van der Putt. Cometogether#3, Frascati Amsterdam, January 19 at 19:15 and 20:05.  Preliminary research 2015-2019. [Read More]  Dear all, I would love to invite you to come and see my presentation with Fransien van der Putt at Cometogether #3, Thursday January 19 in Amsterdam. The evening starts at 18:30. For more info about the program and tickets, see Frascati website – Cometogether #3. At the occasion of a curatorial experimentation in Amsterdam, bringing together a rather open selection of Amsterdam performance artists in a 3 day marathon of sharing work at Frascati Theatre […]

Multiplicity in Practice: Emergence, Series, Variations by Vera Sofia Mota Research Presentation/Master of Theatre Practices  January 21, 2016 at 13:30.[Read More] ArtEZ – University of the Arts, Arnhem, Netherlands

Artistic Presentations ArtEZ Master of Theatre Practices Love Series by Vera Sofia Mota [Read More] Friday 12th of June 2015 at Theatre 2  16.00 – Modern love 17.40 – Fake love(r)20.25 – We are alone with everything we love Love Series A series of works around movement, position and perception that has started in 2009 and continues to multiply. All parts are intra-connected and follow ecological principles of growth.Three works-in-progress will be presented. Concept by Vera Sofia Mota. Modern LoveOn the proliferation of the multiple and small. Subtle movements and gestures emerge within this cycle. Doing rhythm. Becoming rhythm. Becoming image- rhythm. Fake Love(r)Through repetitive […]

Multiplicity in Practice: Emergent Compositions by Vera Sofia Mota. Research Presentation/Master of Theatre Practices. Wednesday the 17th of June in Studio 4 at 13:00 at ArtEZ – Hogeschool voor de Kunsten – Onderlangs 9 – 6812 CE Arnhem – The Netherlands [Read More]

Second love II by Vera Sofia Mota & Kristoffer Stöm HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin 23 February 2014 at 17:00 According to Zeno – attempting to prove that movement is an illusion – it is impossible to traverse an infinite number of points in a finite time. The tortoise starting slightly ahead of Achilles [Read More] can never be overtaken, because Achilles would have to run an infinite amount of (constantly diminishing) distances. Variants of these problems have appeared in the history of science and philosophy, famously in Newton and Liebniz independent discovery of differential calculus. Thus putting the relation between movement and […]

Third Lover by Kristoffer Ström & Vera Sofia Mota Light & Sound Installation Berlin Art Week, Altes Finanzamt, Berlin18 September 2013 from 6 p.m. on. This is a sound and light installation, part of a sequence of works we`ve been developing around movement, position and perceptions thereof. We use stroboscopic and static light to create multiple overlapping images of interrupted [Read More] movement, connecting it with sound and fragments in algorithmic patterns.