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Jose DRUMMOND 若瑟.狄莫

Jose DRUMMOND若瑟.狄莫

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JOSÉ DRUMMOND is a Portuguese artist currently based between Shanghai, Macau and Lisbon. His research-driven practice is an enigmatic, elliptical, and poetic investigation of the space in-between cultures and in-between mediums. Understanding the studio both as an experimental lab and archeological site, where questions on displacement, transience, and fragmented identities arise, Drummond combines and re-arranges visual and textual references from a wide-ranging personal canon, creating speculative memorabilia in a variety of materials, to catalyze a multiplicity of new open-ended meanings that challenge and disrupt the viewer’s experience with the works. Making use of a heterogeneous formal language where Installation, Video, Lights, Photography, Painting, and curatorial initiatives intersect, Drummond’s process-based hybrid works defy classifications and artistic genres.

2015 MFA in Creative Practice from the University of Plymouth (UK) and the Transart Institute in New York (USA). 1986/1994 At. Re – Atelier Livre with professor Pedro Morais (Portugal). 1987/1990 Foundation courses in Painting and Drawing in Ar.Co and SNBA (Portugal) – not completed. 1989 Scenography in IFICT (Portugal). 1999 Management of the Arts in IEEM (Macau). 2016 Sovereign Asian Art Award finalist. 2011 Asia Pacific Photography Prize finalist. Scholarships from the Orient Foundation (Portugal), the National Centre of Culture (Portugal), and the Cultural Institute of Macau (Macau). 1996 ARCO Madrid promotional image. 2016 Transart Triennale (Berlin). 1992 Biennial of Young Artists From Europe and the Mediterranean (Valencia).

Director of ZÌZHÌ — multi-disciplinary contemporary art research platform. Director of VAFA — Macau international video art festival. Director of XA – Xiang Art — multi-disciplinary curator platform. Curatorial initiatives explore the bridges between China and the West, eco-conscience, technology, and intermedia works. The most significant contributions include Where is China? –presented simultaneously at the Millennium Museum in Beijing and the Orient Museum in Lisbon; China? Faraway So Close — presented at Lyon Art Fair, VAFA 2014, and VAFA 2016 — presented at the Oriental Foundation in Macau. He has worked with John Baldessari, Lawrence Weiner, William Wegman, Harun Farocki, AES+F, Miranda July, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Huan, Cui Xiuwen, Wang Qingsong, Xing Danwen, Hong Hao, Chen Shaoxiong among others.

若瑟.狄莫是一位葡萄牙藝術家,現居於上海、澳門和里斯本。他的藝術實踐以研究為導向,透過神秘、省略和詩意形式探究不同文化、不同媒介之間的空間。他將工作室視為實驗室和考古遺址,檢視關於位移、瞬態和身份碎片化等問題,從個人深厚的閱歷中結合及重新編排視覺和文字範例,運用各種材料製作具推測性及紀念性的作品,催化多種嶄新的開放式意義,以挑戰和干擾觀賞體驗。透過裝置、影像、燈光、攝影、繪畫和策展活動等相交的異質形式語言,其過程導向、混合性作品無視藝術分類和流派。

2015年獲英國普利茅斯大學和美國紐約Transart學院的創意實踐碩士學位。1986/1994與佩德羅.莫賴斯教授(葡萄牙)的書籍研討會。1987/1990 — Ar.Co SNBA(葡萄牙)的繪畫基礎課程,並未完成該課程。1989 — IFICT(葡萄牙)場景設計。1999澳門歐洲研究學會藝術管理。2016 — Sovereign傑出亞洲藝術獎入圍。2011亞太攝影獎入圍;獲東方基金會(葡萄牙)、國家文化中心(葡萄牙)和澳門文化局的獎學金。1996馬德里當代藝術博覽會的宣傳圖片。2016柏林Transart 三年展。1992 — 歐洲和地中海青年藝術家雙年展(瓦倫西亞)。

若瑟.狄莫是多學科當代藝術研究平台ZÌZHÌ(自制)總監、VAFA澳門國際錄像藝術節總監及Xiang Art多學科策展平台總監。其策展活動探索中國與西方之間的橋樑、生態良知、科技和跨媒體作品等議題,重要展覽活動包括:在北京中華世紀壇藝術館及里斯本東方博物館同時展出的中國在哪兒? 在里昂藝術博覽會上展出的中國? 這麼遠那麼近 在澳門東方基金會展出的2014年及2016VAFA澳門國際錄像藝術節。他曾與多位藝術家合作,包括John BaldessariLawrence WeinerWilliam WegmanHarun FarockiAES+FMiranda July、宋冬、尹秀珍、張洹、崔岫聞、王慶松、邢丹文、洪浩及陳劭雄等。