Cafe Evropa @ Test festival, Zagreb 2010

Test!0 theatre programme summary

Author: Joao Paulo Nasri
Contact: joaopaulonasri@gmail.com
Country: Portugal
Title of the work: Café Evropa

Art photography approaching the idea of social consciousness. Using double exposure technique the author is interested in the space generated between two images. Photographs were made between 2003 and 2009 in various European countries between Lisbon and Istanbul, two European capitals standing far apart although sharing the same atmosphere. With this project the author is searching for an idea of Europe through the cafe as the concept.

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Cafe Evropa @ Fabrica do Braco de Prata, Lisboa 2010

7 a 31 de Janeiro 2010

	Joao Paulo Nasri				CAFÉ EUROPA				Fotografia

De acordo com George Steiner, uma ideia da Europa pode ser construída tendo o conceito do café como pano de fundo. O café onde uma conversa começa ou uma novela acaba. Marcando num mapa do mundo os locais onde existem cafés desenhamos o mapa da Europa. O trabalho apresentado enquadra-se em fotografia artística aproximando-se de uma consciência sociológica. Talvez até um outro olhar à fotografia documental. Usando a técnica digital de dupla exposição, o autor está interessado no espaço gerado entre duas imagens numa mesma fotografia. Este trabalho fotográfico foi realizado entre Lisboa e Istambul (2003-2009), duas capitais europeias que, embora a distância, partilham de uma mesma atmosfera. Nasri documenta situações, experiências e perspectivas. Em Abril de 2006 foi convidado a apresentar este projecto no festival Test7 em Zagreb. Nos últimos anos passou por cidades e instalações: Ljubljana(2007-09), Sarajevo (Festival Internacional Sarajevska Zima 2009). Chega finalmente a Lisboa, na sua terceira e última fase, para depois seguir em 2010 para Istambul enquanto capital europeia da cultura. João Paulo Nasri. 1980 Born in Lisboa, Portugal. João is documenting situations, experiences and perspectives. In April 2006 he was invited to present his first photography project in the Test7 festival in Zagreb. During the past years Joao has exhibited his works in Ljubljana(2007-09), Porto (2007), Lisbon (Shadow 2009), Sarajevo (Winter Festival 2009) and Berlin (2009). His work is mainly embedded in conceptual art and can be reflected on the art installation that complements the photography work. Joao is today interested on taking the challenge of experimental photography through Lomography and related techniques. Follows a short description: Biography: 2004 Graduated in Mathematics. 2005 President of AEGEE Lisboa, the European Students Forum. 2006 Course on analogical black & white photography. 2007 Member of IRIS, a photography workgroup in Lisboa. 2008 PhD student on Mathematics in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Free Education on photography in Ljubljana, Slovenia Projects: 2005 Um_Bigo Project: international project on documentary photography. 2006 Lomographic Perspectives. 2007 Iris Lisboa: multidisciplinary photography workgroup. NeTejo: views on the river Tagus. 2008 Ti_ule Mizule, experimental photography movement. 2009 Gallery Studio 8 (administration and curation) Solo Exhibitions: 2006 TEST7 Festival, Zagreb, Croatia. 2007 100 + nem -, Porto, Portugal. Interculturalities, by CFRG, Seixal, Portugal 2008 Um_Bigo revisited, Antwerpen, Belgium. Cubix, European Perspectives, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2009 Sarajevska Zima 2009, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Hercegovina. Café Evropa, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tokyo Eye, Berlin Porn Film Festival, Berlin, Germany. The Aesthetics of Silence, Sowieso, Berlin, Germany Collective Exhibitions: 2007 Tejo, Almada, Portugal. 2008 NeTejo, an itinerant exhibition, Portugal. 2009 Projecto Sombra, Lisboa, Portugal.

The Aesthetics of Silence

A remark on retrospective as a discussion on the history of ideas.

2009 Oct 22 Sowieso, Berlin

The Aesthetics of Silence was first presented on one of the most interesting avant-garde places for the newcomer Neucoln, in Berlin. On the opening the ambience was quite familiar, on one of those Berlin rainy nights and the sound of Kalimba through electronic metamorphose instead of opening word arrangements.

Tokyo Eye

The approach to pornography has seen important changes in the latest years. These changes reflect new perspectives on sexuality and

pleasure in general. Most taboos fell like the Berlin wall leaving one in the anxiety state of taking part.

The work presented takes us deep to the fetishes that are enclosured in naïve desires. Recall us to Lolita of Nabokov reminding us about the playful child we let go once and a while. Rediscovers this child as a sexual being that aims the excitement of masturbation and penetration, turning the usage of sex toys out of the thought of perversion.

Influenced by the nu rave lifestyle and Tokyo new age, we present toys together with sex toys inviting you to the childish approach to the experiment. The experiment of the body. The experiment of fantasies like games and challenges.

Berlin Porn Fim Festival [22 to 25 of October 2009]

The idea for this particular exhibition and installation to be set up in Moviemento: The installation takes place in the toilet, where the photos are exhibited, and regards an installation of toys and sex toys that revive the photography exhibited (see more photos).

Café Evropa @ Ljubljana

Kavarna Bi-Ko-Fe 15Oct09 - 12Nov09 ! Kafetarija Lan 16Oct09 - 30Nov09 ! Galerija Tukatmunga 17Oct09 - 01Nov09

According to George Steiner, the idea of Europe might be built having the Café as the background… a Café where a chat begins or a novel ends… a Café where you can plan a murder or fall in love… or a Café where one simply drinks coffee or reads newspapers. According to Steiner’s idea, if you would mark in a world map all the places that regard this idea of Café, you would get the map of Europe.

Taking place between the 14th and the 22nd of August, 2006, AEGEE Lisboa directed by myself, Pedro Vieira and others, brought 25 European students brought new perspectives on the European context. Inspired by this early project, the artist used photography as the artistic way of expressing his ideas. This photography project intends to describe the coffee table atmospheres of discussion and creativity, stating this space as an important figure on our common culture.

Café Evropa was for the first time presented in Sarajevo in February 2009 for the XXV Jubilee International Festival - Sarajevska Zima. The city of Sarajevo, with such an interesting “coffee life” atmosphere, was the first step in this new phase of presenting the um_bigo project. Later it is presented in October 2009 in 3 different sites simultaneously, in the city of Ljubljana. From here goes to Lisbon in December and will have it's last presentation in Istanbul in 2010 integrated on the events related with the European Capital of Culture. (read more here)

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