Installation view at Guimarães Noc Noc 2013

Lalaland from Luis Pedro de Castro on Vimeo.

ChoCho

 

Chocho is Japanese for butterfly, 

and Portuguese for vagina,

so I thought it would be fitted for my first sculpture 

made with 52 Origamis made out of 80's porno mags.

Guimarães Noc Noc 2012

For the second time, Noc Noc

a festival dedicated to art on all fields comes to life in my hometown

Guimarães, this year's European Capital of Culture.

From photography to film, theater, dance, performance art 

all are welcome to this informal cultural intervention.

The 5, 6 and 7th of October,

you are invited to wander through the city with a special map and 

knock on the door of private houses, associations, shops, etc.

and discover a universe of 500 artists, 320 projects 

located in 70 different spaces, allowing you to discover the city 

from a very unusual perspective.

This year Japan is our guest of honor 

and you can see the work of around 25 invited artists.

This year, my photography retrospective

 is going to be shown at number 61 on the map.

 

Here are a couple of the postcards I made 

to help promote this festival that is created/coordinated 

with love instead of money .

MAGA - 8/12 to 18/12 @ Caldas da Rainha

Happy to anounce that after 

Guimarães Noc Noc,

the spontaneous collective show; 

in my hometown Guimarães;

my friends decided to create an artistic collective

called "Ó da casa".

They got invited to take part of the 

incredible visual art festival in Portugal

MAGA

Guess who was commissioned to showcase his video ?

exactly!

"Mom, can my friends come over?"

This is the video

for the Guimarães Noc Noc exhibition.

If you didn't have the chance to visit 

the show, you can enjoy it here!

Feel free to embed this on your web

(hover over the video and copy + paste the embed code) 

Guimarães Noc Noc

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"Mom, can my friends come over?"

This weekend the 1st and 2nd of October

in my glorious hometown 

Guimarães, in Portugal, 

there is a show that takes place

in private houses, cafes, stores and institutions.

Random people who got together 

and agreed to host in their homes

concerts in the kitchen,

exhibitions in the hallways,

screenings in the bathrooms,

a performance pieces that can happen spontaneously

in every corner of the art treasure map.

I have a screening of a short retrospective

of about 7 minutes,

designed to heal and provoke.

Bellow are two postcards that 

I made for this wonderful show.

 Noc Noc

Who's there?

"It's Strangelfreak,Bitches!"

Guimarães Noc Noc

As some of you might know,
my hometown Guimarães, in Portugal,
Is going to be the European Capital of Culture in 2012.

And what does it mean ?
It means that the city is getting millions in funding
but strangely, none of the people I talked to, from Guimarães,
seem to know what is going to happen neither have been invited to participate
as an artist, curator, art gallery ...

But rest assured, some friends decided to
take matters into their own hands
and started a movement, based on mutual cooperation
 taking back their city with their own project called Noc Noc.
By taking back, I mean they are opening the doors to their private homes, studios, galleries
for a hole day, where you can walk around the city
 and simply knock on the doors that are marked in a map.

Sort of an Art Scavenger Hunt with performances, theater,
music, sculptures, paintings, wine, friends and
Lots of Love

here is my small contribution
(that already got the administrator of the group banned from Facebook for improper content)
Pedro, I owe you one !

check out the link
http://www.guimaraesnocnoc.blogspot.com/
and feel free to send them your postcard.