Abstract
Exhibition dates: 18 June – 21 June 2023
Venues: Montado do Freixo do Meio, Herdade do Freixo do Meio (near Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, Portugal)
Lagoa da Nave do Barão (Salir, Algarve, Portugal)
The CERA PROJECT (festival producer)
Curators: Nuno Sacramento & Inês Valle
Participants include over 30 visual artists from Scotland, Portugal, Spain, Iceland and Nigeria, including Eddie Summerton, Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Art Practice, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
The DUSK Contemporary Art Festival 2023 was the inaugural nocturnal art festival held in ancestral stone landscapes across Alentejo and Algarve in Portugal, curated by Nuno Sacramento and Inês Valle and produced by The CERA PROJECT. The festival situated contemporary art alongside geological, archaeological and local knowledge, presenting a programme of performances, film screenings, nocturnal walks and community events over two nights in June 2023. Among participating artists, Eddie Summerton contributed two distinct artworks within the festival context: “Hide for a Standing Stone”, a durational live performance that unfolded across both evenings (18 and 21 June), where the artist enacted a sustained presence in landscape reflecting on the relational scale between body, stone and space; and “Stonehatch” (2023), his experimental short film (approx. 6:50) screened in the landscape’s nocturnal programme alongside other artist films. These works engaged with the festival theme “Stones Last a Wee Bit Longer” by foregrounding material and temporal dialogues between people, place and geological time.
Venues: Montado do Freixo do Meio, Herdade do Freixo do Meio (near Montemor-o-Novo, Alentejo, Portugal)
Lagoa da Nave do Barão (Salir, Algarve, Portugal)
The CERA PROJECT (festival producer)
Curators: Nuno Sacramento & Inês Valle
Participants include over 30 visual artists from Scotland, Portugal, Spain, Iceland and Nigeria, including Eddie Summerton, Senior Lecturer, Contemporary Art Practice, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
The DUSK Contemporary Art Festival 2023 was the inaugural nocturnal art festival held in ancestral stone landscapes across Alentejo and Algarve in Portugal, curated by Nuno Sacramento and Inês Valle and produced by The CERA PROJECT. The festival situated contemporary art alongside geological, archaeological and local knowledge, presenting a programme of performances, film screenings, nocturnal walks and community events over two nights in June 2023. Among participating artists, Eddie Summerton contributed two distinct artworks within the festival context: “Hide for a Standing Stone”, a durational live performance that unfolded across both evenings (18 and 21 June), where the artist enacted a sustained presence in landscape reflecting on the relational scale between body, stone and space; and “Stonehatch” (2023), his experimental short film (approx. 6:50) screened in the landscape’s nocturnal programme alongside other artist films. These works engaged with the festival theme “Stones Last a Wee Bit Longer” by foregrounding material and temporal dialogues between people, place and geological time.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Portugal |
| Publisher | CERA PROJECT |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |